steve
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workplace bez. doing product & strategy bits thru https://boringmagi.cc. more about me at https://visitmy.website/about
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Our positions on generative AI
Given the hype around artificial intelligence, it feels worthwhile stating our positions on the technology. We’re open to working on and with it, but there’s a few ideas we’ll bring to the table.
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In my weeknotes yesterday, I thought about writing something on AI.
We’re in the boom of a hype cycle and there’s plenty of snake oil salesmen out there, which I want to distance myself from. So I’ve written up my positions on #GenerativeAI. boringmagi.cc/2024/12/08/o...
We’re in the boom of a hype cycle and there’s plenty of snake oil salesmen out there, which I want to distance myself from. So I’ve written up my positions on #GenerativeAI. boringmagi.cc/2024/12/08/o...
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What's a tune that you'd think might have got overplayed, but in fact every time you hear it, if anything, sounds better than ever?
THIS IS.
THIS IS.
Roots Manuva - 'Witness (1 Hope)' Official Video
YouTube video by Big Dada
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
What's a tune that you'd think might have got overplayed, but in fact every time you hear it, if anything, sounds better than ever?
THIS IS.
THIS IS.
May not have time to write personal #weeknotes before heading off on holiday, so here’s what we’ve been doing on the alpha phase of Extract this week. digital-land.github.io/extract-alph...
First research session booked
We’ve reached out to 14 local planning authorities and booked a research session with the first responders. The plans for the first prototype are finalised, and it’s being built ready for testing next...
digital-land.github.io
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
May not have time to write personal #weeknotes before heading off on holiday, so here’s what we’ve been doing on the alpha phase of Extract this week. digital-land.github.io/extract-alph...
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Let’s scrobble again, like we did last summer i.airbuds.fm/russell.davi...
Tap to see my listening activity
see what Russell Davies is playing. on your homescreen.
i.airbuds.fm
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Let’s scrobble again, like we did last summer i.airbuds.fm/russell.davi...
Is reading the wrong time (for an event, on a clock) something that starts happening as you get older? Asking for a friend
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Is reading the wrong time (for an event, on a clock) something that starts happening as you get older? Asking for a friend
why is china suddenly interested in my blog
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
why is china suddenly interested in my blog
might just spend next year tramping across hills and mountains
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
might just spend next year tramping across hills and mountains
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🏙️ Governing Urban Data for the Public Interest
Revisit our #IIPPInConversation panel with @francescabria.bsky.social, @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Theo Blackwell ( @ldncdo.bsky.social), and @henriverdier.bsky.social on how cities can use data for the public interest.
📺 Watch here: buff.ly/wCmWPCY
Revisit our #IIPPInConversation panel with @francescabria.bsky.social, @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Theo Blackwell ( @ldncdo.bsky.social), and @henriverdier.bsky.social on how cities can use data for the public interest.
📺 Watch here: buff.ly/wCmWPCY
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🏙️ Governing Urban Data for the Public Interest
Revisit our #IIPPInConversation panel with @francescabria.bsky.social, @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Theo Blackwell ( @ldncdo.bsky.social), and @henriverdier.bsky.social on how cities can use data for the public interest.
📺 Watch here: buff.ly/wCmWPCY
Revisit our #IIPPInConversation panel with @francescabria.bsky.social, @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Theo Blackwell ( @ldncdo.bsky.social), and @henriverdier.bsky.social on how cities can use data for the public interest.
📺 Watch here: buff.ly/wCmWPCY
Lunchtime reading via my #weeknotes from last week. Seen a couple good films and some art. Really enjoyed @ripplesbristol.bsky.social l last week and hanging out with @jukes.ie, @ewebber.bsky.social and others!
The Right Environment: Weeknotes S21E06
It’s sociotechnical systems all the way down. Plus good films I watched.
visitmy.website
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Lunchtime reading via my #weeknotes from last week. Seen a couple good films and some art. Really enjoyed @ripplesbristol.bsky.social l last week and hanging out with @jukes.ie, @ewebber.bsky.social and others!
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I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I’d always wondered why no one had ever published a full, detailed map of the 1960s plan to turn London into a giant web of US-style urban motorways…. It turns even the politicians and designers didn’t make one at the time. It just didn’t exist. Until now.
bugonia is very good, a ripe satire.
November 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
bugonia is very good, a ripe satire.
got the wordle in 3 and in under 10 seconds
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November 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
got the wordle in 3 and in under 10 seconds
Wordle 1,603 3/6
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩
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yeah i’m into hyperscaling!
hyperscaling my face into an industrial bone slicer!
hyperscaling my face into an industrial bone slicer!
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
yeah i’m into hyperscaling!
hyperscaling my face into an industrial bone slicer!
hyperscaling my face into an industrial bone slicer!
“Funding the railways through a bubble, rather than through central planning (as was the case in much of Europe), left Britain with a very inefficiently designed rail network,” says Quinn. “That’s caused problems right up to the present day.” on.ft.com/3XcKd3M
Are bubbles good, actually?
On Jeff Bezos’s defence of AI mania
on.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 AM
“Funding the railways through a bubble, rather than through central planning (as was the case in much of Europe), left Britain with a very inefficiently designed rail network,” says Quinn. “That’s caused problems right up to the present day.” on.ft.com/3XcKd3M
For some reason, I’ve decided to get a train from Paddington at 6.30am tomorrow, which means leaving home around 5.15am. WHHYYYYY.
Much coffee will be drank at @ripplesbristol.bsky.social
Much coffee will be drank at @ripplesbristol.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
For some reason, I’ve decided to get a train from Paddington at 6.30am tomorrow, which means leaving home around 5.15am. WHHYYYYY.
Much coffee will be drank at @ripplesbristol.bsky.social
Much coffee will be drank at @ripplesbristol.bsky.social
good day at chez messer – the christmas wine arrived.
- magnum of soave classico 2023
- magnum of saumur-champigny cuvée prestige 2019
- magnum of champagne brut reserve nv
pol roger!
- magnum of soave classico 2023
- magnum of saumur-champigny cuvée prestige 2019
- magnum of champagne brut reserve nv
pol roger!
November 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
good day at chez messer – the christmas wine arrived.
- magnum of soave classico 2023
- magnum of saumur-champigny cuvée prestige 2019
- magnum of champagne brut reserve nv
pol roger!
- magnum of soave classico 2023
- magnum of saumur-champigny cuvée prestige 2019
- magnum of champagne brut reserve nv
pol roger!
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I’m on the lookout for a new contract (preferably inside).
I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice.
Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good.
Thx :)
I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice.
Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good.
Thx :)
November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I’m on the lookout for a new contract (preferably inside).
I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice.
Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good.
Thx :)
I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice.
Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good.
Thx :)
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‘If the industrial strategy is to succeed, we’ll need English graduates as well as engineers, historians alongside computer scientists, and social scientists together with health professionals.’
www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n... @timeshighered.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n... @timeshighered.bsky.social
Do we need humanities graduates to deliver the industrial strategy?
Policymakers should take a broad view of the value of degree courses when building our future workforce, says Charlotte Hallahan
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
‘If the industrial strategy is to succeed, we’ll need English graduates as well as engineers, historians alongside computer scientists, and social scientists together with health professionals.’
www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n... @timeshighered.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n... @timeshighered.bsky.social
there’s a line in this film where you can feel the new world strangling the old, creating a shift. really good stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbCc...
HARVEST | Official Trailer | Now Streaming Exclusively On MUBI
YouTube video by MUBI
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
there’s a line in this film where you can feel the new world strangling the old, creating a shift. really good stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbCc...
melt about 25g of butter in the microwave for 20 seconds, crush garlic into it, then give it another 20-second blast.
stir that into your mash. and watch all your troubles melt away.
stir that into your mash. and watch all your troubles melt away.
November 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
melt about 25g of butter in the microwave for 20 seconds, crush garlic into it, then give it another 20-second blast.
stir that into your mash. and watch all your troubles melt away.
stir that into your mash. and watch all your troubles melt away.
More notes on kicking off the alpha phase of one of the Prime Minister’s AI Exemplar projects. Plus some cultural bits and pieces. #weeknotes visitmy.website/2025/11/02/t...
The Building Up of Steam: Weeknotes S21E05
Alpha ain’t about holding back, it’s about getting out of the building and learning as fast as possible.
visitmy.website
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
More notes on kicking off the alpha phase of one of the Prime Minister’s AI Exemplar projects. Plus some cultural bits and pieces. #weeknotes visitmy.website/2025/11/02/t...
appreciated seeing japan score against south africa tonight. the team put in a good effort and always kept their spirits.
getting the training in for appreciating *whatever* wales do at next year’s six nations.
getting the training in for appreciating *whatever* wales do at next year’s six nations.
November 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
appreciated seeing japan score against south africa tonight. the team put in a good effort and always kept their spirits.
getting the training in for appreciating *whatever* wales do at next year’s six nations.
getting the training in for appreciating *whatever* wales do at next year’s six nations.
i feel this way about phil collins and rod stewart, except it’s me who now likes them
i hate the fact that you can no longer assume colleagues that you shared views on AI/collaborated with in the past still hold similar views now. so many people in my broad circle are now llm evangelists
November 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
i feel this way about phil collins and rod stewart, except it’s me who now likes them
Links to accessible mapping components in here, for anyone doing #30DayMapChallenge.
That week was absolutely packed. Onboarded a user researcher, shared lots of knowledge, got a demo from a local planning authority.
We movin’, baby. @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social
We movin’, baby. @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social
“A strong week, a solid 9”
digital-land.github.io
November 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Links to accessible mapping components in here, for anyone doing #30DayMapChallenge.
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#30DayMapChallenge
Day 1: Points
Worked on this experimental dot density map using UK population data by age and sex. The points are generated and coloured in real-time as you explore the map.
onsdigital.github.io/dot-map-poc/
1/3
Day 1: Points
Worked on this experimental dot density map using UK population data by age and sex. The points are generated and coloured in real-time as you explore the map.
onsdigital.github.io/dot-map-poc/
1/3
November 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
#30DayMapChallenge
Day 1: Points
Worked on this experimental dot density map using UK population data by age and sex. The points are generated and coloured in real-time as you explore the map.
onsdigital.github.io/dot-map-poc/
1/3
Day 1: Points
Worked on this experimental dot density map using UK population data by age and sex. The points are generated and coloured in real-time as you explore the map.
onsdigital.github.io/dot-map-poc/
1/3