this is very good www.gov.uk/service-manu...

News | Postal Museum to work on legacy project with victims of Post Office scandal – museum will capture stories of those affected by Horizon IT software failures

Job Klaxon! Science Museum is looking for a Curator of Chemistry. Job Details Salary - £41,177.63 Full Time London Deadline - 29/09/2025 ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

"So, [relative X] has got a repeat prescription but is now in care home 60 miles away?" "Yes!" "Can you pop in and pick it up for them?" "Don't be silly" "Have they transferred to new local GP?" "Yes!" "Can you speak with that GP to transfer prescription over?" "Can't you do it?" "Um, no..."

ONS's Integrated Data Service programme is closing in March after UK Labour cut its budget in half www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/i... integrateddataservice.gov.uk So you can stop asking what the point of the National Data Library is, look there's a needs gap now #govtech #techpolicy #datasharing

I'm busy Can someone create a centre for red lines on AI red lines please? red-lines.ai

It was only because of the social media campaign that the looping effect of pressure was built thru the voice of people telling their stories. Justice was never ensured. It should not be taken for granted and the work that it took should not be underestimated

Ok, here’s the question I didn’t get asked cos they ran out of time

By 'playbook' do they mean 'shady stuff to make a bit more money'?

I'm not the first to notice the reinvention of @wired.com from mouthpiece of tech ideology to showing everyone else how to do journalism today, but this cover is something else. The inclusion of their own hagiographic covers in the back is a nod to that shift, which is beautiful. Also…

This is absolutely wild: US Secret Service seizes "anonymous communications network with more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers" in New York, targeting UN General Assembly? "Only a handful of countries could pull off such an operation, including Russia, China and Israel." archive.is/S4hkB

Ooooof. (Also, Sarah Doyle’s poem really is great: www.sarahdoyle.co.uk/laika.php)

Hope everyone is ready for the day two story when Farage or some other notable Reform figure inevitably doesn’t completely disown Trump’s autism comments and instead implies an openness to asking questions about the drug.

OH: "Sorry for that, I'm feeling very sovereign today"

I wouldn't be as optimistic about effectiveness of AI insurance (aka insurance for problems created by AI stuff) as this, but it does change dynamics & implies financial bods are getting more confident about ability to quantify impact of problems created by AI stuff www.techuk.org/resource/und...

Why's personal data monetisation by the individual coming up again? It's very silly and only ever works in narrow contexts rather than as a general all-inclusive thing www.ft.com/content/ea76...

"In this article, we consider how machine delegation may increase dishonest behaviour by decreasing its moral cost, on both the principal and the agent side." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

on.ft.com/4nD1dLS Nvidia to invest up to $100bn in OpenAI

Quite. Data centres have few jobs inside them while a _general_ rule of thumb would be that nowadays most data centres are near the users of the software, rather than the developers of the software Sure, there can be benefits to users from that proximity/software but direct jobs/money is elsewhere

Palantir as lifestyle brand? The kind of stuff that will end up in army memorabilia stores in the future www.wired.com/story/palant...

Wow, I did not see that coming - solar panels as wind breaks for crops. They harvest energy when it’s more valuable too instead of competing with the mid day peak.

Retrospective removal of Indefinite Leave to Remain from "hundreds of thousands of people" in the Reform plans is obscene. They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.

The software is being held to ransom? Although this has made me wonder if anyone has yet done a cyberattack on one of the institutes that believe the AI software is sentient with a threat of torturing some AI models until a ransom is payed out.....

You need to read this. Important things depend on it.

The thing is "digital ID" as a category is absolutely freaking enormous. It could mean *all sorts* of things, which are all quite different to one another, but it cannot usefully include every single technology imaginary that is being bandied around in think tank papers and op eds

Empathy and solidarity to the hundreds and thousands of people currently living in the UK - some of whom you and I know - that Farage & co are gleefully saying they'll "kick out of the country"

"Lib Dems consider ditching opposition to ID cards" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So as a bit of an FCDO website nerd, I can confirm Palestine has been added to the list of countries. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Today I noticed that on the run up to Manchester Picadilly Station there's a barbers offering a "Mancunian Full Grooming Service"

Keir Starmer: Our Nation's Crossroads

I say this as someone en route to Bournemouth (for work) - 'party conference season' is not a relatable or interesting concept to 99.999% of the population and the BBC's job is not to describe the atmosphere of political get-togethers but to explain different party's policies to the general public!

Make TikTok's Algorithm Great for Trump Again (will work on the acronym) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Talking with some younger ppl than me yesterday and very sad/grumpy to hear that a couple of of their "friendship" group had started being openly racist over the last few months. To extent of denying non-white ppl could be English. youtu.be/gqH_0LPVoho?...

Visiting relative at care home and I do like that their weekly magazine about the way things were has a feature on Lord of the Flies But I am now slightly nervously looking around the room for who's Ralph, Piggy, Jack & co....

Put another way

"Street-Level Tech: The Role of Data Entry Operators in India’s Welfare Infrastructure" ❤️ resgov.org/contents/rep...

Finally getting around to reading Underground Empire on the various bits of financial, payments, telecoms &c &c infrastructure being used by US - and others... - to understand world and intervene on stuff. It's very good. www.penguin.co.uk/books/455209...

Skimming the Your Party mess and the way those "leaders" - not just the MPs, but including them - have let down hundreds of thousands of people who've already been let down by the last few years of the Corbyn->Starmer Labour mess is utterly astonishing

'The digital ID programme’s “efficacy depends on everyone having them”, they said, otherwise the government would have to contend with a combination of paper and digital systems.' <- govt - & others - *will* have to contend with both paper & digital so do up the £££s... www.ft.com/content/f2b3...

Wife: ok, dog is getting older and more sensible I'm buying her a new dog bed Me: so, a new toy for her to destroy? Wife: pffft 5 minutes after dog is shown new bed Wife: I'm putting the new bed out of reach for a bit, we'll gradually introduce it Me: did she start destroying it? Wife: pffffffft

Opinium asked 500 ethnic minority respondents about racism and flags for ITV Good Morning Britain www.opinium.com/resource-cen...

"I went to Stanford (University) a couple of years back and spoke to some undergraduates there" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

Surprise, Reform's DOGE is a bust Anyway Lancs CC have been involved in several people-I-help-care-for's social care It's pretty clear that there has already been lots of "innovation, smart-working, [use of] digital data" but it's been pretty effing terribly done www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I do worry this is going to be Britishvolt all over again, with yet more promises of local jobs for communities that need them but promises that disappear into thin air finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-...

The fundamental challenge in technology ethics is what you consider as the boundaries of the system. bsky.app/profile/duhe...

And not just politics *gives side-eye to yet another blogpost proposing greater use of national-level software platforms under political control for public services with seemingly zero thought to any risks or how they could be reduced*

Me, every day

AGI is nearly here, just one more round of £xxbn investment away

RUSI's Pia Hüsch responds to the UK's AI infrastructure investments announced by large US technology companies - read the full analysis on our website: https://bit.ly/42ykB4s