Policy Soup stir the pot ALPHA

The Supreme Court ruling which the government backs has made it illegal to live and let live.

it's also, unlike a lot of the other issues that are being pored over, very relevant to local government. It's unclear what levers hackney council has to pull on gaza, but there's a hell of a lot of ways they can make life easier or harder for trans people in the borough

anyway as I look at my non-binary green councillor in a ward that has never before returned anyone but labour, i wonder if maybe the government misjudged their policy proposal here

odd but not unexpected how little trans rights have come up in the local elections analysis

If you understand this post but haven’t started saving into a pension yet you need to speak to a financial advisor ASAP

Ourkid

@eekyrich.bsky.social

Unless Starmers speech is about bring back the free owls policy I think he is toast

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialMay 10(source)

Wear it as a badge of pride. Also those figures are low for you, I hope you had a restful weekend

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialMay 10(source)

Dirigible timeline

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialMay 9(source)

Inelegantly phrasing this same thought was one of the first Bad Times I had in this site lol

congrats to @politicsuk.com for his election as a councillor

Most of Westminster should just be in Brent, Camden or K&C. The west end should be a special administration zone directly run by the mayor

No good argument for half the central business district of the best city in the world to be run for the benefit of a handful of extremely wealthy residents who hate living in the central business district of the best city in the world

Conservative-led Westminster Council to mount legal challenge on Oxford Street plans - The Fitzrovia News

A glorious day to remember that Westminster council must be destroyed fitzrovianews.com/2026/05/08/c...

The incoming Conservative leadership of Westminster Council has said it will fight the Mayor of London over Oxford Street pedestrianisation plans.

The shadow of project Glasswing projected on the wall of the cave

Grace

@gracekind.net

Update, here’s a chart! techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/h...

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialMay 7(source)

Good work from apple where a bootleg version of the game I have never installed shows above the game itself when I search my phone. Top marks.

haha no don't be silly, my first dredds aren't in the case files because that would make me old

the UK needs a centre left party ʰᵉˡˡᵒ to provide a home for voters driven away from Labour ᶜᵃⁿ ᵃⁿʸᵒⁿᵉ ʰᵉᵃʳ ᵘˢ and that party clearly can’t be the toriesʷᵉ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ⁷² ᵐᵖˢ

The wrinkle here is that they may have been right in never shipping it. There are huge security implications to building this product and the general response has been “¯\_(ツ)_/¯ user beware”, which Google can’t really get away with

This is probably the right decision in planning for the future - AI automation is transparently not going to be about manipulating a virtual cursor and browser - but it’s not great that Google never managed to ship this when it was still cutting edge

Max Zeff

@mzeff.bsky.social

@kevincollier.bsky.social

NEW: Google quietly shut down Project Mariner yesterday, the web-browsing AI agent it highlighted onstage last year at Google IO. I reported for WIRED, nearly 2 months ago, that Google had moved staffers off the Project Mariner team as it responded to OpenClaw-style agents.

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.socialMay 5(source)

They’ve entirely replaced the 5G people

Kevin Collier