looking at salad spinners, this one is a bit pricey www.nisbets.co.uk/sammic-comme...

Job – Director of Technology at the Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social in London theodi.livevacancies.co.uk#/job/details... #opendata -adjacent (I mean, I guess. It's still in the name anyway)

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

The V&A Storehouse is really cool

Nightingale’s crimea charts academic.oup.com/jrsssa/artic...

I’d get the British Museum to lend some of their vast collection of cuneiform tablets. Data and record keeping are not new.

“If I had known that everyone would keep talking about nothing else, I would never have built that damned kitchen!” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

If the UK had a Data Museum, what would you put in it?

The V&A Storehouse is really cool

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Good job our water companies are well run then. Oh

lol Economist finally updated the bizarre misleading image on their Trump approval tracker

Bounced off The Séance of Blake Manor, a real shame. Looks and sounds great, but crucially the puzzles are.. barely puzzles? You just sort of do all the steps. Nothing to touch Golden Idol

ChatGPT accused of acting as ‘suicide coach’ in series of US lawsuits

Hallo! The #GOV.UKDesignSystem team are looking for feedback on adding rounded corners to buttons, which we think will improve the usability of the component. You can see and comment on our proposal on GitHub discussions: github.com/alphagov/gov... Please take 3 mins to feed back. 🙌Danke, Imran

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

my council, Newham, have stopped collecting garden waste (cuttings, grass and so on) from Nov - Feb. Extremely annoying as I found out after filling 3 bags from tidying the garden for winter

Oldest victim of Post Office scandal, 92, receives final compensation payout. At last. But ruined lives can't be restored. £1.2bn paid to 9,100 victims from public purse. Not a penny from PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers who benefited from persecution of the victims.

capitalism should be called golden goosism. It just 'extracts value' with no regard for sustainability or ethics

BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct. Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Late Night With The Devil was alright.. the main actor was really great, and the overall idea is cool but I don't think it quite got the ending

“The ship is expected to reduce emissions versus a traditional cargo ship by up to 80 percent. The vessel has two rigid sails mounted on Solidsail rigs designed by Chantiers de l’Atlantique” maritime-executive.com/article/sail...

I remember how excited I was when border-radius became a thing... If only I'd know what would eventually be possible with it about 15 years later 😅 corner-shape takes border-radius to an all new level... @cbolson.bsky.social has made a handy generator for it: www.corner-shape.com

It would mean a huge amount to me if people looked through this thread, shared it, and (if you’re able) set up a monthly donation with the fund 💜

Government Chief Technology Officer - £162k - Bristol, London or Manchester www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

nice site on deprivation data deprivation.communities.gov.uk

"These are really challenging times, I'd be remiss in not trying to offer the best advice I can under the circumstances... I've been experimenting with ways to use LLM AI tools (Like ChatGPT) to help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss." www.eurogamer.net/xboxs-absent...

Not sure about the new Met Office forecast design. There's less visual hierarchy and distinction between data types

8 lessons of what I think is some of the most important content on Complete CSS: free to everyone!

The next time people complain that user research just slows things down, show them this towering monument of hubris. Quite staggering.

Looking at this OpenAI work on safety in cases of distress/self-harm &c It's really noticeable how all of the evaluation/taxonomy stuff is based on staring at data they can collect during chatGPT use, there's no visible qual research with users to understand their worlds openai.com/index/streng...

The fact that these are the numbers the company will put on the record … www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

Python Software Foundation withdraws bid for $1.5m grant from US gov, because the terms require they do not "operate any programs that advance or promote DEI", and "it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community." Applause. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

With the xbox Ally not playing Xbox games.. it does seem like there's no future in Xbox

Obviously, it has no capability to do background processing. So there's a bunch of posts from irate users because ChatGPT told them to wait hours/days/weeks while it did absolutely nothing at all 💀 2/2

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

Spooky Express turns public transportation into a monster mash

An Alien watching Alien films: this is not a fair representation

Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads. These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.

Beautiful work notimefortv.biz/gallery-24/

Beautiful work notimefortv.biz/gallery-24/

In important math news: new shape just dropped (the noperthedron) www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...

🙇 Sorry it's been a while, but here are some #weeknotes, or #quarternotes, from GDS's Service Standard & Service Manual team. We've been... 🏉 Getting the new team together, shaping our roadmap for continuous improvement 1/6 #govdesign #gds

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.