@leaypi.bsky.social see you in Hay, Lea! Hopefully bit less scorching by then…

@leaypi.bsky.social You’ll be pleased to know Father Christmas has good taste in books. Can’t wait to dig into it!

my sense is most philosophers agree: this is exactly wrong

GOTY contender (philosopher’s choice, at least)? youtu.be/oONZ_f4kwiU?...

"Some kinds of writing shouldn’t, or perhaps can’t, be summarized." #authors www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Quite enjoying tracking and rating restaurants with this new app Beli that @laurelboxall.bsky.social introduced me to! beliapp.co/wMFSbUBdxVb?...

Resharing for the after work crew!

🎓 I’m pleased to share that my doctoral thesis is now available for download (freely – it's Open Access!) from the Oxford University Research Archive: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

I’ll brave the rain, lightning and hail, he thought. It doesn’t look that bad!

This week’s Kitchen Diary observer.co.uk/style/nigel-...

Can you run a company as a perfect free market? Inside Disco Corp www.ft.com/content/c043... Fascinating experiment. Sounds wildly inefficient in many ways, and not sure I’d love working there, but glad someone’s trying it!

I think the suggestion that any kind of human-to-human interaction should be replaced with human-to-chatbot interaction should be scrutinized as a kind of moral rot. It’s antisocial ideology and should be treated as such

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Ha! I’m one of those (well, for DuckDuckGo searches) Submitted a complaint to Meta too

Great article! Had no idea how insanely readable COBOL code was until now. Let alone the gendered/gatekeeping dynamics behind its historical denigration or modern downplaying of the number of active coders…

This blog post by @mattedgar.bsky.social resonated. 'Pragmatic ambition' is a good term that I will no doubt be using soon. blog.mattedgar.com/2025/03/29/b...

If only someone had warned us that turning your own DNA into a saleable asset was a bad idea www.bbc.com/news/article...

Took me a while, but I've finally deactivated X/Twitter – will be fully deleted next month. Just don't trust that even historical data is safe there anymore. Considered handle-squatting but decided it's not worth it...

Tiny attack vector, since patched, in mobile browsers. Pretty interesting though! #passkeys “an attacker within BLE range can trick a victim into using their passkey to log the attacker's (Raspberry Pi) device into their account.”

An apology to John Rawls. I couldn’t really understand why he was so obsessed with the importance of stability as a political value. But now I do.

We’re so cooked y’all

Mastercard be like "digital identity will become the master key to a connected world, unlocking access across platforms and borders without exposing personal data"

Plus, if ever we needed more examples of why extreme care is needed when creating (digital) powers, even if you trust the incumbents… change can happen very fast

Is this the US version of SpAds?

Got views on the latest trust framework we published in November? We’d really appreciate your feedback — more detailed the better! #digitalidentity The survey linked below is open to all and closes 3rd Feb, so there’s plenty of time to collate your thoughts

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

#londoners! Anyone got thoughts on living in Fulham/Parson’s Green? We’re currently in Angel/Islington but have seen some properties that way. Wondering how it would differ living out west!

Really enjoying Richard Flanagan’s Question 7. Great writing! Weaves together such surprising threads

@miniaturerutter.bsky.social welcome! Nice to escape the other place…

Dirty Dancing teaches that abortion rights are good and you should never date a guy who reads Ayn Rand, which is 90% of what you need to get through life

This new AI themed Wallace & Grommit is seriously tickling my pickle

I made a gingerbread panopticon

“Snowball sampling” I feel seen

Not everyday you get the Minister in the pub! Exciting to see the trust framework becoming more useful thanks to our adoption team’s hard work to remove blockers…

Ten days left to apply for these two fantastic roles! Come and work with us at OfDIA/DSIT 🤩

Thinking a bit lately about how the increasing use of smart phones as payment and identity infrastructure will have implications for consumer expectations of battery life, and what that means for product dev.

Got the Monday scaries? Come and work with us at OfDIA! 🆔 Two roles available in fantastic teams

Big fan of how the Radio 4 feature “Tweet of the Day” has outlasted tweets

🚨I’m hiring! Help me spread the news! Have you ever slipped your driver’s licence into your phone case and thought, ‘there must be a better way?’ Lost your passport on a night out? Do topics like AI deepfakes, biometrics, wallets, age verification and inclusion interest you?

Damning. A choice quote: “The obscenity of this mass delusion is nauseating — a monolith to bad decision-making and the herd mentality of tech's most powerful people, as well as an outright attempt to manipulate the media into believing something was possible that wasn't.”

“Analysis of the dataset revealed that the agency’s fraud prediction algorithm discriminated against women, migrants, low-income earners and people without a university education.” Every time… and it’s not like this stuff is a secret! www.goodreads.com/list/show/15...

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

This morning, l'm delighted to announce we've pre-released the much-anticipated gamma (0.4) publication of the trust framework on GOV.UK. Yes—just three days after my viva. It's been a busy few weeks! enablingdigitalidentity.blog.gov.uk/2024/11/25/a...

While 'Dr Smith' admittedly doesn't narrow things down an awful lot, at least there's now one more attribute for the matching algorithms... I still can't quite believe it but, on Friday, I passed my DPhil viva—with no corrections! 👨🏼‍🎓

Our lab has been studying social media for 14 years now, and it’s refreshing to be able to say—it’s fun again.

@dbarnardwills.bsky.social great to see you on here! How’s things??

I'm really excited about this one. We've opened a new @britishacademy.bsky.social call offering up to £150k for researchers to work with peers around the world to strengthen evidence informed policymaking in different contexts. Deadline 19th Feb. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/evid...