We are quantifying this exact pattern and find: Israelis double as likely to be described using humanizing frames. Palestinians overwhelmingly described wrt infrastructure damage. Palestinians 6X more likely to be discussed in relation to their govt. Israelis paired with govt 5% of the time.

Here’s a few collaboration pointers for the public sector. If we all did a bit more of this we’d spend less and generate way more value. We’d probably enjoy our jobs a lot more too willcallaghan.com/how-to-be-a-...

This blog post by @davekarpf.bsky.social is really worth reading and reflecting upon.

Why is this country so timid on fixing air pollution and even small measures to address the climate? Cosplaying a C18 isolated cottage while living in the middle of a city is actually not an inalienable right or harmless hobby. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brain immediately decides that "buy Macbook Neo, run (some very RAM efficient) Linux" would be great. Pretty sure it would in fact not be great.

Always a surprise to find someone has been freeloading in your garage all winter and now wants to give you zero notice before they move out...

(Getting an English person to think about how society could be better) imagine a cheap train beer

Got an email for a workshop called "why aren't more people listening to your research?" and I am pretty sure I don't need to go to a workshop to tell you.

What to do when the thing is becoming unpopular? Add non-sequitur AI!

This might be the most sensible thing I've read in months.

Back in London for the first time in a while and why did no one say the shops on the Embankment platforms are open again?

Once in a generation, but the generations are fruit flies.

A while ago I read a (good) book that ran with the metaphor of "concrete boats": things that are asked for by management (with no user needs etc) and teams grudgingly deliver despite their knowledge that the idea is a no-hoper. Amazed subsequently to discover that concrete boats are a proper thing.

It can't do ear jewellery. facetest.psy.unsw.edu.au/aifaces.html

Someone has signed me up for a large amount of French IT recruiter spam. It is gratifying to think that someone believes my D in A Level French may let me become the développeur I always knew I could be.

To be fair, if they'd charged Charles I with Misconduct In A Public Office might have been a wee bit easier to land the charge and scope of the court. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_o...

This and @andrewgreenway.bsky.social (andrewgreenway.substack.com/p/in-permane...) today mean your lunchtime reading should realistically be on state capacity.

This sort of framing of stories about 'left behind' places is getting very tired. How have they been 'failed' by politics? They are the product of political choices - which organisations like the BBC have often failed to explain to people.

What an odd recruitment campaign #Tesla is running in #Berlin to attract people to their GigaFactory! It advertises benefits such as subsidised meals, free gym access, and shuttle services. But it at least downplays its connection with Tesla as a brand. It uses illegible tags to say “Truly giga!”

This is OSINT I can get behind.

Finally, the Graun is covering the big issues for us in the rest of the UK. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Making coloured icing.

It would be fascinating if the BBC would invite a trans person to opine at length about all this stuff rather than a succession of randos who like writing about them.

A thing I do like is when people type as they speak.

This survey was among the worst I've seen for loaded questions. Lots of "do you support x" without placing in continuum of context and some that seemed clearly designed to manufacture the illusion of support ("how great am I from 5-10" sort of thing).

This is a prime example of _govern_ don't _follow_. Choosing a product goal and making it happen rather than building what does well in a consultations. Reminds me of the difference between acting on deep UR vs acting on surveys.

@duncanjbrown.com Thanks a lot for the talk yesterday, I'm still chewing it over this morning. Have you written bits of it up elsewhere at all?

NYC Mayor's Office is interested in a good technology advisor. cityjobs.nyc.gov/job/senior-a...

Thinking about the short feedback loop of policy. Breakfast clubs: manifesto commitment to make them free in 2024, by 2026 a pilot in some schools. If you vote for something that's essentially "fund existing capability" then you want it to happen in less time than your kid going through school.

I was awake most of the night with a sick toddler and this just went around and around in my brain for the whole night. How have we let this evil go unchecked.

Why is there only one picture of Chris Wormald? Lad should have got a proper one.

It's all about quiet Yo La Tengo and designing software asset registers today.

Always surprises me that there isn't a regular vox-pop feature on the nearby residents of the Manor of Northstead when it gets a new Steward. Feels like a nice magazine piece.

Cambridge are looking for a Lead Delivery Manager with decent enough pay. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/lead-de...

I really dislike exciting soap opera politics. Even the thought of Nick Robinson getting all sweaty and breathless with speculation makes me long for the luxury of boring days and serious policy proposals and interesting problems and not knowing the names of SpAds.

This website has everything...

I'm just amazed how close we stare to the Archers fans.

Hang on, the dogs in Bluey eat grapes with their cheese? Well that's ruined my immersion.

Bike people - if your recently replaced gears were doing this weird little curling up thing on the secondary cog thing, what words would you be googling to work out how to fix it?

It's been at least two months since the last time I had films back. So here are some films back.

Which one of you? Own up.

"Notre Dame only cost €600m to refurbish, how can Parliament cost so much?" Notre Dame is 1/19th the floor area of the Palace of Westminster. If you scale that cost up by 19 times and add inflation it makes the Parliament renovation look pretty good value.

I did a microsite for Parliament for the remove the asbestos/stop sinking programme in 2011. You can only kick the can so far. As with so many things in UK politics, you have to decide that you are changing not reforming. Big change is good, possible, and potentially polls poorly before it starts.

Real proliferation of backpfeifengesichten in the news this week.

Ah, it's the annual "hair shirts for MPs will make them work better" season

it's really not over yet

Absolutely hilarious.

It's important to balance the bad with the good. youtu.be/EWO1-WE4oNw?...