I spoke to someone trying to run an independent cinema in Spain once. New films can come with prescriptive rules about how long they will be scheduled, how often you must show them, etc. even if the theatre is empty, if you even want to get a copy of it. So maybe constraints like that add up.
I wrote about the redesign of the Microsoft Inclusive Design site (published under our team byline). One thing I wrote on is the risk of designing for diagnoses instead of for people.
In rebuilding the site, we focused on flexibility and agency.
microsoft.design/articles/evo...
This is great! Lots of ideas here that sort of bubbled in my subconscious from talking to accessibility experts over the years that you've given clear words to.
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Backpacker hostels usually have better internet than 5 star hotels, from my experience staying in both over the last year.
Also when strategies contain a nice round number of ideas. I'm always wondering if they dropped good ideas or added bad ones to get to the nice number.
The UKs competitive advantage cannot be "the best copilot prompters in the west"
Your point is true more broadly, but even if you concede the premise it's also annoying that we'd just be content letting young people become a priest class for somebody else's technology, rather than making more fundamental and low level contributions.
It's fascinating how despite all the evidence that a knowledge rich curriculum and the rigour of studying a subject you like in depth works, politics in so many countries is *so* determined to go 'a new invention? Maybe this time trad approaches to education should be thrown out!'
Yes, also it seems to be the revealed preference of the market to save 15p on delivery cost at the expense of actually reliably getting your stuff. More places need to let you choose the courier.
This is a great argument
The OBR has warned of the downside risk to the UK economy of an 'AI bubble' bursting
I asked the Minister whether he agreed, and what steps his department and UKRI are taking to protect investments in innovative companies that would undoubtedly be affected by a market correction
I am a Labour partisan, and I feel an intense emotional pressure to believe exactly this right now. It's the easy way to square a lot more difficult thoughts away.
Always amazed how much more prevalent (and necessary) bouncers on normal pubs are in my small hometown in Wales than in London.
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Really are a lot more Nazi related news stories than one would have imagined in 2025.
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
So I can buy that in some circumstances it makes it easier to enforce if the rule is: ask website, website says yes or no.
I agree with your point overall though, I just don't think the number of newly enforceable cases will be zero.
I think that if I want to, when I get a job I can use my birth certificate to show I am a citizen... But that doesn't really show I'm a citizen, I might have renounced citizenship, etc. Then there will be some weird things, like if you have a birth certificate from Gibraltar, what does that mean?
If citizens also had digital ID, then you could implement a blanket rule for everybody: no share code, no access to anything. I think this would plausibly close some process gaps, but I don't know how big the delta is, maybe it's tiny.
Well, if you tell your employer you are a citizen (and therefore can't get a home office share code), they are supposed to look at your documents and keep a copy, which is offline and manual. An employer could ignore or misunderstand what they see, which then means they rely on other enforcement
Isn't it that if citizens don't have mandatory digital IDs, then you can't operationalise making digital ID a hard requirement to access government services, or even employment?
Women, and also specifically retired teachers (both men and women). Once you notice you can't unsee it.
Doing it through an agent makes sense, as long as there is some sort of test of competency. When shell companies (e.g. American candy or Harry Potter shops reported on in London Centric recently), they sometimes have a UK based director who doesn't seem to know what a director is
Having been involved in setting up an entity overseas for legit reasons, in a jurisdiction with onerous requirements on director citizenship, I think you could probably weed lots of these out with a quick interview in person.
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Increasingly I’m feeling that lots of AI startups are a mix of overhyped promises+race to the bottom while offering a wonky product.
There’s now an “AI recruiter startup” that both promises to be a better recruiter than any human (taking interviews, screening ppl)… at $29/month?!
Not possible
I think we are in a weird window where executives are rewarded for lack of critical thinking because it looks even worse to come out the other end as the guy who missed the big opportunity. Optimising for not being the next version of that quote about there being no market for iPhones.
yup
