Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 28/05/2026@leaypi.bsky.social see you in Hay, Lea! Hopefully bit less scorching by then… 020
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 25/12/2025@leaypi.bsky.social You’ll be pleased to know Father Christmas has good taste in books. Can’t wait to dig into it! 150
Reposted by Dr Charlie Harry Smithnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 10/11/2025my sense is most philosophers agree: this is exactly wrong 7523
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2025The NDL team’s had a rocky year, from what I hear… They need you! 010
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2025GOTY contender (philosopher’s choice, at least)? youtu.be/oONZ_f4kwiU?...youtu.beThe Trolley Solution - Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer | Latin American Games Showcase 2025YouTube video by GameTrailers 010
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2025That reminds me of CGP Grey talking about how he obsessively plays one crappy pop song on endless repeat while writing, for precisely the white noise reason! To each their own! 110
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Never understood how people write with music on! Even stuff with no words stops me from thinking properly. Loved Radio 4 Comedy while cooking, though, to forget work in the evenings… 100
Reposted by Dr Charlie Harry SmithCarissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 03/08/2025"Some kinds of writing shouldn’t, or perhaps can’t, be summarized." #authors www.newyorker.com/culture/open...newyorker.comWhat’s Happening to Reading?For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end. 1115
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Quite enjoying tracking and rating restaurants with this new app Beli that @laurelboxall.bsky.social introduced me to! beliapp.co/wMFSbUBdxVb?...beliapp.co 020
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025As a result — and although I must stress that this thesis in no way represents the government’s views, only my own — I hope the conclusions will be of interest to theorists, identity experts, and policymakers alike! 030
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025I then ultimately deploy this analysis to generate a coherent policy position, resolving what I see as a series of interlinked dilemmas: unchecked central oversight, persistent exclusion, and neoliberal economisation. 130
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Throughout, I unpack the deeply ethical and political reasons for Britain’s uniquely troubled history with identification systems, using lenses of freedom and control, access and inclusion, as well as surveillance and privacy. 120
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Drawing on interviews with 51 identity experts across industry, government and civil society, I construct something of a normative history of British identity systems, from 1414 to 2024. 120
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025In it, I evaluate the British state’s successive national digital identity systems using the tools of liberal political philosophy – for the first time. 120
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025🎓 I’m pleased to share that my doctoral thesis is now available for download (freely – it's Open Access!) from the Oxford University Research Archive: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...ora.ox.ac.ukA liberal political philosophy of British digital identity systems - ORA - Oxford University Research ArchiveThis thesis evaluates the British state’s national digital identity systems using the tools of liberal political philosophy for the first time. Such systems are becoming ubiquitous, with public and pr... 141
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I’ll brave the rain, lightning and hail, he thought. It doesn’t look that bad! 010
Reposted by Dr Charlie Harry SmithNigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 04/05/2025This week’s Kitchen Diary observer.co.uk/style/nigel-... 21377
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Can you run a company as a perfect free market? Inside Disco Corp www.ft.com/content/c043... Fascinating experiment. Sounds wildly inefficient in many ways, and not sure I’d love working there, but glad someone’s trying it!ft.comCan you run a company as a perfect free market? Inside Disco CorpFor over a decade, a $20bn manufacturer has been conducting a radical experiment. No one has a boss or takes orders. Their decisions are guided by one thing, an internal currency system called Will 100
Reposted by Dr Charlie Harry SmithKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I think the suggestion that any kind of human-to-human interaction should be replaced with human-to-chatbot interaction should be scrutinized as a kind of moral rot. It’s antisocial ideology and should be treated as such 873558677
Reposted by Dr Charlie Harry SmithThe Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain... 216132455373
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Will let you know if they get back to me, but I’m not holding my breath…! 010
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Ha! I’m one of those (well, for DuckDuckGo searches) Submitted a complaint to Meta too 120
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Great article! Had no idea how insanely readable COBOL code was until now. Let alone the gendered/gatekeeping dynamics behind its historical denigration or modern downplaying of the number of active coders… 021
Reposted by Dr Charlie Harry SmithJames Higgott @jiggott.bsky.social · 29/03/2025This blog post by @mattedgar.bsky.social resonated. 'Pragmatic ambition' is a good term that I will no doubt be using soon. blog.mattedgar.com/2025/03/29/b...blog.mattedgar.comBetween the tepid bath and the cloud of vapour: a plea for pragmatic ambitionA man visiting a health resort is sitting in a steam box. Engraving, May 1869. Wellcome Collection In my most recent weeknote, I promised a blog post… Somewhere in all this between the t… 151
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Congratulations Pat! Hope you enjoy the well-earned fruits of retirement. Please post photos! 000
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Only acceptable to train that early if you’re on the way to the airport for a well earned break 100
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 24/03/2025If only someone had warned us that turning your own DNA into a saleable asset was a bad idea www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.com23andMe files for bankruptcy protectionThe company said that it will now attempt to sell itself under the supervision of a court. 020
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Took me a while, but I've finally deactivated X/Twitter – will be fully deleted next month. Just don't trust that even historical data is safe there anymore. Considered handle-squatting but decided it's not worth it... 020
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Yes, it was a German quoted in an FT article! www.ft.com/content/3059...ft.comGerman army struggles to get Gen Z recruits ‘ready for war’Bundeswehr has a high dropout rate and the number of conscientious objectors is rising 4210
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Tiny attack vector, since patched, in mobile browsers. Pretty interesting though! #passkeys “an attacker within BLE range can trick a victim into using their passkey to log the attacker's (Raspberry Pi) device into their account.” 010
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I know this is a joke, but for those who might be interested I’m pretty sure that’s Zédel! 100
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Highly recommend switching to Maestral if you’re on a Mac. Keep using your Dropbox account but use a far better sync agent 000
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I quoted so much of Jon’s work in my thesis! Such an insightful scholar 040
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Zutilo can help but yeah, it’s not great. Weird considering how prevalent edited collections are in academic publishing… 010
Reposted by Dr Charlie Harry SmithJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18/02/2025An apology to John Rawls. I couldn’t really understand why he was so obsessed with the importance of stability as a political value. But now I do. 2133461
Reposted by Dr Charlie Harry SmithDavid G.W. Birch @dgwbirch.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Mastercard be like "digital identity will become the master key to a connected world, unlocking access across platforms and borders without exposing personal data"buff.lyMastercard Signals: Racing towards the future of paymentsThis issue of Signals explores seven trends signaling how payments could evolve by 2030 031
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Plus, if ever we needed more examples of why extreme care is needed when creating (digital) powers, even if you trust the incumbents… change can happen very fast 021
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 02/02/2025@laurelboxall.bsky.social said this was too spicy to post 👀 020
Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Got views on the latest trust framework we published in November? We’d really appreciate your feedback — more detailed the better! #digitalidentity The survey linked below is open to all and closes 3rd Feb, so there’s plenty of time to collate your thoughtsenablingdigitalidentity.blog.gov.ukYour feedback on the gamma (0.4) trust frameworkIn November, we pre-released the gamma (0.4) publication of the trust framework. We also highlighted that we would be seeking feedback on this latest publication to inform our ongoing work. This post ... 001
Reposted by Dr Charlie Harry SmithRyan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home. 2527557984877