The government really needs to get a handle on this and reverse the disastrous, Reform-mimicking, posturing of the Starmer era. The crack down on study visas helps nobody.

prison for them all, quite frankly.

that is a... disconcerting image!

classic parents

PSA: if you come across a weird historical smell thing, let me know - it's the right thing to do.

Please keep these coming!!! I have a few (inevitable) questions. Is the character a particularly astute sniffer? Or is the new nose for each day of the year merely aesthetic? What does the creepy Christmas guy *do*?

... It's just tech that is expensive, physically big, and hard to make widely available (don't know if the piece discusses this, don't have access to FT so riffing off the quote in the post at this point.)

there is tech that detects and replicates odours (though what we mean there up for debate, perhaps '*appears* to make odours detectable and replicable' more accurate, like a camera or sound recording device, a charismatic technology that offers the appearance of replication)....

the notion that there's a difference between sensory experience and representable/quantifiable 'data modality' is true not just for smell but most experience - a point that historians, who are troubled by what it means to extract experience from recalcitrant evidence, are well placed to think about

think smell illustrates broader truth - that whatever one can digitally code will never be the same, or a substitute for, or an accurate representation of actual human experience. No matter what facile gibberish AI pumps out, we still have a choice about whether and how to embodied-ly engage with it

The Wargame show is just that Stephen Collins cartoon where Gove tells Cameron he can fight the aliens, but for 4 hours.