Watched As You Like It a couple of times lately and there are characters who have access to information (the printing press!) but are differently mistaken Shakespeare lived in time of increased information availability but without guardrails of broader education. Colleges as social meta-cognition

The brutal clarity of Stonehenge site as a conveyor belt for delivering foreign tourists to a set of stones is impressive.

Great opportunity to push yourself to do something scary (eek public speaking)

Stonehenge has subtle design signage - those beige squares with some pale writing on them? That’s the signs for membership and exhibition space. It’s a pretty good site but subtle design signage remains a terrible idea in #Wayfinding

Defence switch from frigates to drone ships reminds me of 50’s Sverdlov/Buccaneer shift. Russia was planning to build many new cruisers, UK could not afford to make so many ships. So switched budget to development of low-level nuclear armed Buccaneer aircraft.

Apart from first track, www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... an almost perfect list of one-hit wonders of 80’s summer/europop hits

First edit of good welcome audit at Stonehenge

SCOTUS just abandoning precedent to give what the president wants in the present just destroys any sense of a justice system rooted in centuries of American history. If Dem’s return, pack court and reverse things is that a reset or a proof that nothing matters now

Learnt about Stonehenge: • 1 million visitors per year • 80% come from outside UK • represents 25% of English Heritage’s total visitor count

Talking about holding onto your sense of being expert and being serious in world of AI summaries and fear of complexity at LeanAgile in Edinburgh.

Stonehenge and discussion of Druid crowd management at solstice periods. They have free access but the time slots need arranging in sequences

At Stonehenge and key #Wayfinding point is one that often gets ignored - people follow people. The crowd and the movement show the routes not the maps or the signs

Experts flatten populist policies with facts (which is why immigration appeals win so often) Labour hope the ‘Public’* will flatter their policies with prejudices against immigrants * that cruel Public the Right-Wing imagine are ‘real’

FDR 1936 New York speech “We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.”

Lot of Stroud Red in Netflix series on American Revolution. Oddly Stroud’s need to get more cochineal beetles for red dye means even more American deaths later in the West (who supplied the guns that helped kill Custer’s 7th Cavalry🤔?)

TankFest today and learnt that Americans gained a lot of skills in casting tank parts (for Sherman) from French engineers who had come across in '39/'40 and then got stuck when France fell. Also new UK tank finally has a reversing camera so driver can see what's behind them.

Discovering AI = Homer Simpson

Made a thing with scrap cardboard. Will take it to Stonehenge tomorrow for museum conference. First Five Step Problem guided attention tool. Hold it up and see what you can perceive (both sense and comprehend) about the Welcome

#Cadbury had a crossed chocolate finger cash prize competition and the heatwave means I’ve probably faked a win for millions

The request to ‘Prove’ you have an invisible disability is slightly odd (in terms of an service design/institutional/social model barrier) but adding stress about real or fake lanyards is weird

Read Lloyd George’s ‘A fit country for heroes to live in’ speech. From 1918, he’s clear that problems are due to ‘bad conditions’. There’s no eugenic-sense of weakness of some (poor) people. It’s bad housing, bad food, bad jobs.

Minimum Viable Football - turn up when you already know you’re in knockout stage

Now she has learnt that the cat feeder opens magically when she puts her head in the arch, I think she now also has cargo cult belief that more snacks will always appear if she sticks head in. #Caturday

As with Nudge, surveillance kicks down and never up.

What if much of human thought is navigation? 🧠 New open-access review: I argue that the DMN + hippocampal–entorhinal system form a domain-general engine for "mental navigation" across physical and abstract spaces (e.g. social, conceptual, and value). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

⚡ ICMS can restore touch to a paralyzed hand and vision to a blind patient. But we still cannot reliably predict whether a given pulse pattern produces a tingle, pressure, or nothing coherent. That gap between electrode and percept is the problem of inception.

Zine as tool - reverse side is a way of sense making in a place using the First Five Step problem of See, Pee, Tea, Spree and Flee. The welcome enables agency and reduces anxiety. For museum conference at Stonehenge on Monday.

Lovely evening at Handlebards As You Like It at Rococo Gardens. It’s actually got cool.

Made a zine for South West Museums meetup at Stonehenge on Monday. On welcomes and walking workshops to make more inclusive places.

Prague opera tickets bought for Interrail trip. Did avoid massively overpriced ticket sellers that Google prioritise over the national theatre company’s site.

On building economies for the common good www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Andy-capitalism

Reading Joseph Chamberlain 1903 speech and it’s odd how he speaks of the British Empire being young and also no one really knowing what it’s for. “What is the meaning of an Empire? What does it mean to us? We have had a little experience” There is no past of Imperial certainty.

///// BLADE RUNNER \\\\\ was originally released #OTD, 44 years ago, the 25th of June 1982, and it remains very strange to remember it was actually set in 2019. A true landmark in the history of film production, that just keeps getting better on repeat viewing. #bladerunner #scifi #ridleyscott

“Too well educated, that’s my opinion. You can’t tell who are ladies and who aren’t nowadays.” Manor House owner in 1925 Agatha Christie Murder of Roger Ackroyd

There’s a sect about to discover the big theological switch the Pope has that transform them from being Catholics to Protestants www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This is very bad for people in Bristol - predictive crime system thru multiple databases and algorithms

SCOTUS as a right-wing information architecture exercise where ideas/people/things they dislike are redefined enough to not be covered by any form of justice. A legal system small enough to fit in the pocket of the Heritage Foundation

Zine for Stonehenge event on Monday. South West museums meetup. Walking workshops to identify barriers made by bad welcomes is the single most effective workshop I offer to museums and managers of public spaces. It’s the welcome that enables people to judge their sense of agency and anxiety.

Ryanair, never hiding its lack of respect for customers, accepts that parents should be able to sit their young children for free www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... It’s such a petty, whingeing organisation

The Score points out how this kind of ranking has destroyed why universities were different from each other. Both students and teachers chose them for cultural and moral reasons not just Top 10 Ratings. The value replacement of subtle social organisations with simplified measures

I saw Blade Runner in empty Wolverhampton cinema in '82. It was about 2 years until I met someone else who'd seen it.

Unions really reading the room with campaign against Net Zero today with both climate crisis heatwave and unresolved petrol war in Middle East

Newspaper still talking of AONB - which don’t exist - replaced by National Landscapes (in England and Wales). Never sure why: Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty did highlight what they were about.

Didn’t realise Agatha Christie Murder of Roger Ackroyd would go all Columbo with period high technology alibi and need to know the size of 1920’s dictaphone like this one

Shouting at individuals about behaviours that do not solve systemic problems is mostly what large organisations and governments prefer as it means they don’t need to do any systemic change. Old post acuity.design/how-the-age-...

“I’ve done all I could. Taken her a cup of hot tea.” From Agatha Christie ‘Murder of Roger Ackroyd” There’s limits to what British people can do.

Not staying up for Scotland again