Facade, now that was good AI, cool art direction too intermittentmechanism.blog/2022/01/21/f...

yes. the things that would make social media safer for children are almost all just the things that would make social media non-harmful/much less harmful for *all of us*. if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts

Posted some photos, I like the light today www.flickr.com/photos/joe-l...

Cube, but all the rooms are like inconveniences or awkward rather than fatal

Beat XCOM 2 on Veteran, good game with poor onboarding and annoying ui and voiceovers

I come out on the Nintendo Switch tomorrow. Buy my ass to support www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

"Both slot machines and LLMs are explicitly engineered to maximize your psychological reaction. For slot machines, the makers want to maximize how long you play and how much you gamble. LLMs are fine-tuned to give answers that humans like, encouraging sycophancy" www.fast.ai/posts/2026-0...

🎶 welcome to the hotel Normal Hotel 🎶 checkout with the clerk 🎶 that's how hotels work 🎶 plenty of room at the hotel Normal Hotel 🎶 we won't keep you here 🎶 that's a crazy fear

Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...

This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets. We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years. 2/

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

So Google play store has taken down Upscrolled but never did anything about X

One of my favourite tweets was from a blind product owner saying that the GOV.UK Prototype Kit meant that they could get involved in the design for the first time.

we're seeing knowledge collapse, ai reporting on ai infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/1...

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

a nice Guardian blind date www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I launched a newsletter called Focus State. Turns out that name was already taken. That’s on me! Rather than carry confusion forward, I renamed it. Welcome to Digital Arcana: where I explore accessibility, product design, and design systems as one practice. annaecook.com/writing/2026...

Google summaries are great "Director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire focused on this tight, claustrophobic visual style to create a, Festival de Cannes immersive, Wikipedia, BIFA visceral experience that, Exeter Phoenix puts the audience directly in the protagonist's, Independent Cinema Office perspective."

So PowerPoint just puts a thin grey line around images and the workaround is to crop the image slightly? How have we ended up with such awful software

'original' is a contronym - a word that has opposite meanings. It can mean 'the first one' or 'a new thing'

Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

And the platforms pay people for this material because.. they don't think it's bad. It's not a neutral stance

I remember when UK tech people were calling for a 'British DOGE'

So Giger saw this and said, OK, got it:

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Midnight Mass is good but geez all the monologues

Some alternatives to substack: Buttondown Ghost Beehiiv I looked at all of these, each of them is fairly straightforward for newsletters/writing. Admittedly they aren’t all very good at accessibility (yet) except maybe buttondown? but that’s an issue for another day

out of interest, has anyone got the GOV.UK Prototype Kit running fly.io? When I try I get an error about ports, that you have to bind to 0.0.0.0 not 127.0.0.1

Looks like Heroku is going into maintenance mode - normally means it's going away. I like Railway as an alternative www.heroku.com/blog/an-upda...

Tonight's TV: Midnight Mass

Uploaded some new photos www.flickr.com/photos/joe-l...

Restoring the Palace of Westminster could cost ‘eye-watering’ £40bn

i like this do it again

"£1.5m is spent per week maintaining and repairing the Palace of Westminster." The report into making Parliament safe to actually work in is full of jaw-dropping stats, but I think the above is a pretty good place to start... committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Great, now Teams is obscuring images with the description. Accessibility is important, but this isn't how to do it

I think we should make the houses of parliament safe enough for tourists to visit, and move government business to modern buildings

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

I wrote a tutorial on data driven prototyping in the GOV.UK Prototype Kit - all feedback welcome! joelanman.com/posts/govuk-...

moltbook leaks 1.5 million api keys. least surprising thing after "water is wet"

One week left to join this hack day! Be there or be square. 🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting... #hack #DesignSystem #government

We're working on a new version of data.gov.uk, give your feedback on the current site here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I've written about Moltbook, and how ridiculous the reaction has been to a group of LLMs sending prompts back and forth. "This is as interesting and threatening as a bunch of Speak & Spells in an echoey parking lot." kotaku.com/moltbook-ai-...