🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content. www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c... Translating in 🧵.
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🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content. www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c... Translating in 🧵.
vyvyan and kryten both have angular heads, it fits
I'm quoted in this paper about the problems with #What3Words. arxiv.org/pdf/2308.160... W3W is a proprietary and for-profit system which shouldn't be used anywhere near government or emergency services. It is prone to catastrophic failure and their business model appears to be unsustainable.
Sub-text: can we have one please
There’s a lot of people saying ‘mission-driven government’, especially people in government, without there actually being a structure or operating model established for that. Nice that Nesta and other folks are suggesting models, but it feels like the time to implement one was 12 months ago.
Haha, you know, I totally forgot about that when James asked! Here’s a link to things I did with GOV.UK Design System too: visitmy.website/2025/04/16/t...
It’s such a fuzzy concept. It’s a catch-all term we can use to speak with normal people about computer things.
Similarly there are people who said Burroughs’s cut-up technique wasn’t writing, but they’re wrong.
I figured you’d like it! And I know why you’d get defensive, I get it. There’s a difference between ascribing your creativity to a commodity’s output and exploring a technology to see how it affects your composition.
Okie doke. I don’t agree 100% because that’s a line people have taken with electronic musicians for decades, it’s too elitist for me. In case you’re interested: www.interviewmagazine.com/music/electr...
Not sure that’s a hugely accurate depiction of how Actress worked with AI *in 2019*.
Then there’s using AI in music with intent, a whole other level: www.deccapublishing.com/actress-expl...
not looking forward to it
Oh wait, you’re saying they’re after the leather!
‘gentleman’? ‘crown jewels’ was right there!
Possibly for the same reason that wearing a wetsuit doesn’t prevent you being eaten by a shark?
this evening i learned 2 facts. 1. there is a captain britain in the marvel universe, given his powers by merlin and the lady of the lake (lol) 2. zimbabwean dancehall exists and one of its emcees is called captain britain
the first be-georged roundabout i saw was in farleigh, croydon, and clearly done with a whiteboard marker. 8 points for resourcefulness, but surely -2 points for pride in the flagshagging summer games
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
If I’m honest, the first thing I’ve done with this is start a base for journaling the wines I drink.
Malaysia's data hub is very cool data.gov.my
Nice little app! Quite like the methodology and caveat sections, and the programmatic access bit is handy. (Jealous of the dashboards too.) Seems really well suited to statistics publications.
named in the early 2000s, maybe?!
doing a vat return in the post-bug fug with a throbbing headache: not fun
My positions, and links to a few of the things that influenced them, here: boringmagi.cc/2024/12/08/o...
For example, I’m always guided by the ‘Make things open’ principle, and that was an input to my positions on AI.
My own writing helped me think through some positions I’d use to think about and approach AI. That thinking and writing wasn’t always based on content about AI though.
Nice! Didn’t know that existed. One problem we were trying to solve was changing technical specifications alongside user-friendly guidance for those specifications, hence the self-rolled app.
Yeah!
We made a little CMS ‘cause all our content is in git too github.com/digital-land...
Email me 😉 visitmy.website/contact/
Up for a chat, yeah.
Analysed, yes. Presented the mess and duplication, yes. Seen changes made, no. 😔
befouled by some stomach bug. fever, headache, the ejections. feeling rotten. stay safe out there, kids!
it’s the laws that weren’t followed i feel sorry for such a lonely existence
This royal throne of kings, this sleptred isle 💤
thanks so much!
does that use unique notes or not?
there comes a time when all those jobs are done and you can get back to being a slob, trust me 😉
my immediate thought: how long would it take to fill it with your regular (seasonal) usage?
ran from croydon to deptford and then along the thames path to london bridge. for tonight we dine in a restaurant and i want to eat all the things!
Just a headsup for data/tech engineering + policy ppl that Reform's proposed mass deportations bill/policy is expected to include stuff on mandated data sharing so that govt can look for "people that might be illegal immigrants" in the proverbial big data haystack www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
once again, it’s time for rally festival and lageritas with some of the public sector’s best designers, what you sayin’
Reckon I spend 6 months of the year being religious with the to-do list, another 6 months of the year winging it on vibes. Some times the maelstrom does not pertain itself to timeboxed tasks!
My favourite part of today was re-explaining something to someone who definitely ignored my explanation in a previous meeting, and the one before that. It’s also a really fun series of meetings because they’re recreating spreadsheets that we already built in December. FML
“I think the skills that should be emphasised are how do you think for yourself? How do you develop critical reasoning for solving problems? How do you develop creativity? How do you develop a learning mindset that you're going to go learn to do the next thing?” www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...
Hard agree
i hope the injury was a twisted ankle on a scree slope rather than a foot burnt off by lava! (nice knot)
The thing is, just logistically, it should be easier to use the law to throttle algorithmic content recommendations than it is to roll out a requirement for age verification to 10s of millions of people. But presumably the Meta policy people didn't like that idea.
So you wanna know what’s in the gagging guidance? Sorry - that’s gagged finds @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social gavin-freeguard.medium.com/no-10-bans-c...
that place is surprisingly good
Great day visiting West Oxfordshire District Council’s planning people. So much context picked up across the entire lifecycle of a piece of planning information. There is nothing quite like getting out of the building and observing your users.
‘We are open to consider Pro Bono arrangements’ for a system that collects and harmonises ‘finance, outcome and performance data’ for HM Treasury? Sounds dangerous, lads
one of the local electric vehicle charging points is borked and dispensing free electricity, it’s like christmas
“even before i had object permanence, i knew not only what a career was but which one i wanted to pursue”
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Me neither tbh!
This one, maybe? www.blog.gov.uk/all-posts/?d...
A Japanes woman at Casio hand coded the Sleng Teng riddim that formed the basis for dance hall! It's an amazing story www.nippon.com/en/japan-top...
Ah nice! Have you been using Bases for a while? Interested to see how you’re using it, or know of any pitfalls!
It’s not dissimilar to how Notion has worked for several years, except you have the benefit of storing everything in self-hosted Markdown files. Main advantage (for me) is being able to make atomic notes and roll these up by date, topic, or other properties.
OK people, this is it. For everyone who’s asked me about my Obsidian setup recently, this is the core plugin I was waiting to be released for all users (not just subscribers).
went to my first festival in years and, you know what, i’ve been missing out. physically exhausted but socially and creatively full to the brim. long live the bass!
Some times the job is being the vibes merchant, and that’s OK.
It’s nice to make your #weeknotes educational visitmy.website/2025/08/14/i... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social
just in case you’re in need of some bubblin’ garage beats www.mixcloud.com/GShockRadio/...
I can hear the conversation they had in the go-to-market planning sessions so clearly
hahaha!
i’m no expert in research, but my guess is that surveying british people in summer on whether they eat hot puddings is unlikely to turn up unbiased results
“just when they thought i was out, i pull me back in”
Replacing public data infrastructure with privately collected data (which has artificial scarcity to extract more profits) is a form of enclosure www.wired.com/story/privat...
amazed this isn’t satire
going to a festival full of young people this weekend, purely so i can hear a man play this track he made in 1997...when i was a child jeremysylvester.bandcamp.com/track/give-y...
Constantly shifting priorities, a lack of coordination and a hazy vision are fundamental challenges to overcome in any organisation. Big or small. Old or new. visitmy.website/2025/08/13/t...
my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...
Sterling research, Andrew, thank you for sharing!
love that all the people using rss get first access to tickets to that really popular event 🥰
Their routing feature didn’t work for me. On long drives, I’ve found fewer longer charge-stops are better than several quick ones.
Zapmap is OK but shouldn’t be gifted a monopoly over EV charge point data. Irked as both an EV driver and a data platform person!
if i’m buying meat to bbq from a supermarket, not a butcher, i’ll just think about meat thickness, fat ratio and bones to consider if it bbqs well. main hack: only steaks and chops do well on very hot coals or gas. everything else is medium or low & slow.
a friend gave me his pitt cue book when he went veggie and i’ve found that good. worth saying that ‘uk meat cuts’ is ‘meat cuts that fry, grill, roast or stew’, and when you think about heat, intensity and time, some of those bbq well too. lots of ‘bbq cuts’ are just roast cuts.
I’ve been busy working on a few opportunities for work...but it’s all taking longer than expected. Frustrating for me, but an opportunity for you to bring me in for a few months instead! I’m available 3 days a week (asap!), hybrid to do 3 things: con't
saw so many small boats this weekend at the abersoch regatta
macbeth, after presenting a prototype to senior stakeholders: “thou art not thy patron”
Think gamification was a hot thing in 2014 but it’s amazing how many people assume it still works and works everywhere. I hate them. The app I use to book desks in co-working spaces has ‘streaks’. COME ON.
oh lol: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Seeing referrals from Mural boards in my analytics, so guessing someone’s put it in a workshop or training. If that’s you, thank you! 🙏
Nice! I’ve a similar thing except it uses Webmentions.
tim apple: “please don’t put tariffs on india, that will totally covfefe our margins”
for anyone following (i.e. no-one), i’ve cracked the number and length of charging stops for a trip from london to north wales
‘We tested and I learned that I love confirmation bias’
Worried I stuffed too much info in there but hopefully it was clear!
Out of practice with #weeknotes, this is more of a monthnote. Stuff I’ve been up to after taking time off in June. visitmy.website/2025/08/04/t... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social
where in wales is that?!
go see racing 92 play, it’s a joy! other than that, all i can suggest is restaurants
haha, what was your strategy for the birthday?! thanks man!
had a hip injury most of last year which meant i lost a lot of fitness. been building it back up since january. really chuffed to have run a half-mara only ~4 mins slower than my previous personal best. slowly but surely! you can recover! strava.app.link/k9AfPZslvVb
tempted by the medoc marathon, i must say
tomorrow i have a half-marathon followed by a stag do. the combo is an endurance event in itself.