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This is a pretty classic way to test demand for a feature before you decide to build it… I’d say fair play doing this rather than shoehorning it in 🤷‍♂️

It's Throw a Decorative Gourd at a Nazi Season, Motherfuckers

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

I know public sector digital work is hard, but the user experience of GP at Hand is just inexcusably bad. A tiny example (one of hundreds) - an email they sent me today: it tells me to click a link and it doesn’t include any link…

This pair look like the villains in a movie where the hero is a dog.

Big crowd for Weave London this morning… on actually making AI work for product teams 🤓 @loomery.bsky.social

It’s genuinely baffling how iOS search is still this bad

Prosperity and inequality in mature knowledge economies academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting papers I've spotted: a running thread

Lib Dems double down on Gail's strategy To Sir Ed Davey’s Liberal Democrats. The fun-loving party made headlines during the general election campaign after its party leader was pictured on paddleboards, waterslides and even a bungee jump du...

Some layers of irony there, given the Lib Dem's 'Gails Strategy' www.spectator.co.uk/article/lib-...

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Where is the bundle of policy for hybrid work being here for the long term?
Town centres: incentivise retro-fit of empty property to co-working spaces
Transport: local micro-mobility, no peak fares, good wifi on trains
Education: teach distributed collab, hybrid internships
+..?
@abundancepod.com 🤷‍♂️

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Yeh I think you're right. It's on the bonfire of "co-opted by the LinkedIn drones beyond any safe usage" at this point.

I’d always interpreted it (maybe generously) as a neo-Popperian thing: ‘strong’ means opinions that drive a lot of specific claims about reality, and the ‘loosely held’ is the commitment to falsifiability. But yeh, the two ways you knife it are probably the way lots of people are using it (badly)

29 fouls and 49 clearances. The beautiful game is back

Aircon poetry bsky.app/profile/john...

It's 2045. Your kids first home is a flat in a converted data centre, retro-fitted for humans now after lying empty for 18 years post AI bubble burst

Every time I hear about 'using synthetic data' or similar, I wonder the same... LLMs creating data to train other LLMs must get you into some weird territory?

Pitched a bunch of things like this to Sky almost a decade ago... they have almost certainly all been floating around in their 'innovation lab' or similar since then to no avail 🥲

The plastic analogy feels like a really strong one - incredible technology that *could* become very important in lots of places if employed with care... but becomes so cheap, common and over-applied across the whole economy that it damages the wider environment, obliterates prior craft skills...

Currently have Scottish inlaws visiting us down in Kent - they were absolutely baffled by not being able to go to the shops on Sunday evening. Seems to be going fine up there

You'd be welcome at Loomery - especially if our 'quiet days' suit - Mon/Weds/Fri - we're just off Lambs Conduit

Can't believe the Black Joke's story hasn't made it to blockbuster netflix adaptation yet bsky.app/profile/gari...

Mathematics does seem to be an area there has been a lot of progress in with them… wouldn’t be so bolshy

Here you go:

bsky.app/profile/jonn...

BBC ‘big’ docs really do feel like slow mo sludge these days 🥲… bsky.app/profile/jonn...

Only been writing some stuff to stick on the internet again haven't I 🤓

Just did it - it's the Yoti powered check which is, IMO, very slick. And they (Yoti) have their heads screwed on straight about how an organisation that does this sort of thing + products that do it should work...