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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steve
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· Dec 8
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.
boringmagi.cc
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...
the one and only @dasbarrett.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
the one and only @dasbarrett.bsky.social
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If you or anything you’re responsible for used NPM today, check you didn’t install something malicious:
helixguard.ai/blog/malicio...
If the worm doesn’t manage to upload your secrets to GitHub (see github.com/search?q=sha...), or propagate via NPM, it apparently wipes your home directory instead.
helixguard.ai/blog/malicio...
If the worm doesn’t manage to upload your secrets to GitHub (see github.com/search?q=sha...), or propagate via NPM, it apparently wipes your home directory instead.
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If you or anything you’re responsible for used NPM today, check you didn’t install something malicious:
helixguard.ai/blog/malicio...
If the worm doesn’t manage to upload your secrets to GitHub (see github.com/search?q=sha...), or propagate via NPM, it apparently wipes your home directory instead.
helixguard.ai/blog/malicio...
If the worm doesn’t manage to upload your secrets to GitHub (see github.com/search?q=sha...), or propagate via NPM, it apparently wipes your home directory instead.
what was the hype cycle that allowed jurassic world to become popular after the disaster at jurassic park?
how did they win back public support? how did they get investors to care again?
how did they win back public support? how did they get investors to care again?
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
what was the hype cycle that allowed jurassic world to become popular after the disaster at jurassic park?
how did they win back public support? how did they get investors to care again?
how did they win back public support? how did they get investors to care again?
flight home cancelled, yaaaaay
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
flight home cancelled, yaaaaay
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You can now convert your Notion pages and databases to durable, private, local files.
Your data, offline, forever, for free.
Your data, offline, forever, for free.
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
You can now convert your Notion pages and databases to durable, private, local files.
Your data, offline, forever, for free.
Your data, offline, forever, for free.
please, no, make it stop
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
please, no, make it stop
watching the rugby in a bar in cape town. tally for the word ‘bru’ is off the charts, beating the number of ‘jaaaaa’s last weekend.
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
watching the rugby in a bar in cape town. tally for the word ‘bru’ is off the charts, beating the number of ‘jaaaaa’s last weekend.
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All fun and games for commercial lawyers, but is the UK public interest really served by monopoly control of national address data in the hands of Royal Mail (itself now owned by a Czech billionaire)?
#IPlaw #datapolicy #opendata #openaddresses
#IPlaw #datapolicy #opendata #openaddresses
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
All fun and games for commercial lawyers, but is the UK public interest really served by monopoly control of national address data in the hands of Royal Mail (itself now owned by a Czech billionaire)?
#IPlaw #datapolicy #opendata #openaddresses
#IPlaw #datapolicy #opendata #openaddresses
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How did my leisure time on the internet get turned into staring at a bunch of inboxes? 😩
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
How did my leisure time on the internet get turned into staring at a bunch of inboxes? 😩
doing endless wine tastings under an oak tree in the sun, send snow pics
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
doing endless wine tastings under an oak tree in the sun, send snow pics
out of darkness cometh light youtu.be/bbssDblGPkM?...
DJ Lag & Ape Drums - GQTECH (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by DJ LAG
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
out of darkness cometh light youtu.be/bbssDblGPkM?...
having fun playing about taking photos again, albeit on my phone and not a proper camera
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
having fun playing about taking photos again, albeit on my phone and not a proper camera
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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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🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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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