When translating American English to British English can one pick out the Oxford Commas too? The dreary pedant of punctuation points that prevents humorous misreadings

Star Wars strange fetishisation of 1950’s American Suburbia in design of place and now movie poster fonts.

Things that can’t be made by machines? I’ve been in meetings and projects that have attempted most of them (and failed)

Reading a Gorky Park sequel. The hero’s old KGB adversary has been murdered in Havana. The mental image problem I have is that, in the movie, that KGB character was played by Scottish TV comedian Rikki Fulton. His character overwhelms the book scenes.

The language of the Manosphere www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Trump missing out on speaking longer than Yasser Arafat seems weak. Beating Castro however, would demand real stamina

Using up stale bread - Bread and Butter Pudding. I will try not to make mistake from last time when I put cumin not cinnamon on top.

Autism is more apparent in work-obsessed, control-obsessed environments. It’s always been there but each work revolution has demanded people exist in more tightly-defined roles and more measured ways of being. The world made by work has problematised the vast breadth of being Human.

This pilot experiment PAID FOR ITSELF. Ireland spent $105 million on artists providing them basic income, and saw that drop to $72 million after accounting for economic impacts, then with $80 million in psychological wellbeing impacts, that dropped to -$8 million.

Zoom and Teams really needed to have a Rapture special effect for end of meeting today. Everyone glowing and disappearing

Tylenol sticks in folk memory, after the Chicago poisonings, as example of a corporation rapidly doing the right thing for its customers at huge cost to itself Trump probably hates that

Institutions are vast but were contained to impressive buildings or brown envelopes. It was easy to spot them & know if you trusted them Now an institution has same digital presence as a gaming app or social media platform It is hard to know if that site, that app, that email is trustworthy

ADPList email about using AI has this ‘AI as CoPilot not Pilot’ advice that reminds me of both Boeing and Airbus automated systems crashing planes while misinforming pilots

Finally read the interview in Times with Supervet. This combination of text and picture raises questions (I'm not a vet but that dog does look unlikely to be resucitated)

Small edit to headline

How do institutions prove their identity to citizens is more interesting question? (as I deal with yet another email scam of my mum that uses that organisational power of authority and brand identity against her)

Spoke about Perispace and information sorting within arms reach at PaperCamp. Human-centred information sorting can be used more broadly: this is crude version.

Short post on which angle you view technology industry tools and methods acuity.design/horizontal-o...

No Rapture because too much Tylenol. Believers will somehow justify the latest apocalypse failure.

Bedknobs and BroomStyx #DisneyMetal

Watching F Scott Fitzgerald biography on iPlayer. It’s from 2000 - it’s chock full of the intellectual elite of America from then. It’s saddening to watch in 2025

New post on Medium acuity-design.medium.com/horizontal-o...

The mountain Taranaki Maunga on New Zealand’s North Island was granted legal personhood in January after unanimous parliamentary vote. By treating it as a living legal entity, it now holds rights to protection, preservation, and the ability to initiate legal action. buff.ly/5xnPDqm #ShareGoodNewsToo

It is a truth too often unacknowledged, that a populist in possession of the public's rage must be in perpetual want of an enemy.

A lot of advice for improving team velocity looks like speedrunning: sequence break as much as possible, any% everything in between. But life isn't a video game, and shoveling crap at colleagues and customers is not a winning long-term strategy. No LLM can stand in for actual human teammates.

New post acuity.design/horizontal-o... on tech history and the burial of professional practice and tools over time.

Starting Christine Rosen’s The Extinction of Experience which looks a very good book I am thinking that it’s perhaps ironic that User Experience appears extinct now too. Buried under Product Management: the technology above the humanity.

Reading of Suntan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockhee... - a spy plane prototype that created new boundary of what was possible even tho it was cancelled. The new boundary meant that other planes and infrastructure were built as they were viewed as within that new space. Prototyping matters.

Labour can’t let go of Managerialism - that politics is only about doing things efficiently not about virtue, ethics or basic humanity Farage is thus wrong because he can’t do things well not that his ideas are terrible and inhumane

UK and USA with Empire and Manifest Destiny are founded on the power of migration and movement yet politically obsess about stopping both.

Tactile Art show in Gloucestershire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My analysis here not only explains why the CPS numbers are wrong - but estimates that if they'd got their own arithmetic right, they would have concluded that migrants are a large long-term fiscal *benefit*. (3/3) docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Two questions about perception and alignment to information in vertical or horizontal terms today. First came across problem when working in early #3Dprinting where we kludged models together made in either architectural or mechanical engineering software. They oriented reality differently

Old media platform - we have a shared tightly-held foundation of reality and truth but we can wander off to other places to find our communities. Tech social media - all our communities are trapped in one walled garden place and we are chaotically mixing realities with no shared truth

I have to say I'm a bit angry with the blithe way that many advised others it was OK to just stop paying attention to the news. Over a few generations people noped out of news but leapt into something that filled the space when it arrived: social media.

“Clean Your Lens” as pop up message from iPhone Camera is new to me.

It’s a personalised digital service app not a ID card is a political metaphor shift that needs trampling to death quickly

Council has written to say incomprehensible EV/Disabled Parking signage in Stroud is a mistake and will be changed Who had priority or right to park at all was unclear.

The US got Surkoved. Way too easy.

Tech industry likes to think its history is horizontal process of development when it’s more vertical. Thus to talk about tools and processes is more archaeology than audit. Messy layers not clear boxes. IA to IX to UX to PM Or PM UX IX IA

Hospital wayfinding discussion and reminded of expert saying people need to remember they are architectural machines maintained by professionals for treating illness. They are structurally incomprehensible to visitors. It’s the physicalisation of jargon

Review of Papercamp www.iot.io/blog/2025/09... including my talk on ripping up paper to find meaning

Thora Hird’s daughter is Janette Scott (name checked in Rocky Horror Show opening song) and she married Mel Tormé. IMDB while watching TPTV.

Queen Mary 2 is outside Oban. Picture by Stephen Dalziel shows how vast it is compared to the Calmac ferry

I assume Nick Clegg’s book must have similar problems www.theguardian.com/technology/2... He was right at the centre of Meta and must have witnessed so much awful behaviour. He must be speaking out about all that? Right???

#PaperCamp review www.iot.io/blog/2025/09... by Duncan Wilson

Good book on Improvisation (in music but, as such, generally) but WTF with size of typeface

Long but good day yesterday. Up at am to speak at PaperCamp in London in the morning then back to do 18th birthday party. Bed by 1am after a lot of washing up and clearing up.

How does American Football establish itself globally when the grass-roots has such high costs of kit/infrastructure? Soccer/Cricket are simply playable by anyone, anywhere. If it is sport purely as exported spectacle then maybe that does work: it's Hollywood.

Right wing are present with people and use conversation to direct resentment towards Others www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... That's the debate methodology/packaging - seize, clarify in dichotomy, narrativise blame to an enemy and permission revenge.