Alt text as a literary art form. Superb!
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Alt text as a literary art form. Superb!
Little reminder that axe-con, organised by @deque.com is this week!!
It's a free online, two days (February 24 25) event, with a very nice line up of talks about accessibility and inclusive design.
Want to learn about accessibility? Register, check them live, or catch the replays!
#Accessibility
I've been thinking a lot about boldness this week, so revisited this classic post from @janethughes.bsky.social. I can't it's 10 years old! medium.com/public-innov...
Techno-authoritarian thinkers elevate centralized, algorithmic control above humanistic complexity. People who bought into these areas (with their wallets and political donations) are on product podcasts talking about how great everything is.
cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-405-ho...
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
gradient.horse
From the NYT Evening newsletter, headline reads "A.I. bots are often wrong, but they're set to reshape medicine". Highlighted text reads: "A new study published today found that A.I. chatbots were no better than Google at guiding users towards correct or helpful health advice. The technology sometimes presented false information or dramatically changed its advice depending on slight changes in the wording of the question. But A.I. has already proved quite good at other tasks, like at reading scans and images - better than many doctor, in fact."
This is a framing error, NYT. It's different technologies. Chatbots are not the same as the machine learning involved in reading scans (better defined inputs, clearer evaluation of outputs). Calling both AI is like conflating bombs dropped from planes with cars, because they both involve explosions.
Reminds me of discourse in which women are called "females". I always think it implies an appeal to biology= science= objectivity.
LinkedIn needs to add a 🤮 response option.
Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
endless.downward.spiral - is this the beginning of the end of What3Words?
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02...
Benjamin De Kraker O @BenjaminDEKR Follow OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How?
The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk") 1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."
I’m starting to think the people who are excited about “AI agents” have literally never used a computer in their lives
In 2026 we are reinstating the regular One Team Gov breakfast club in London and also running a virtual one for anybody who doesn't have a meetup near them.
If you're interested you can sign up for both using the link (and please retweet/skeet!)
www.linkedin.com/posts/onetea...
Data protection, as a concept, grew out of post-war legal scholarship in Germany which reflected on the use of data about people by the Nazi Govt, and formulated a set of limits on data use which recognised that to collect and use data about people was to impact the people’s lives.
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Reading a thread in the other place about resistance, and a sentence sticks with me:
"It is ok to be discouraged, but don't discourage others."
That applies to so much more than just resistance.
Bluesky hivemind - views please!
If you were writing an academic-adjacent piece and needed to include clear but accessible stuff on AI / algorithmic bias and its societal impacts, what are your go-to texts?
I have lots but want to make sure I'm not missing a classic!
RTs welcome 🙂
Thanks for giving us some practice at #ukgc26 @jacattell.bsky.social and @mikerose.co.uk
This would make a good sticker ❤️
For fans of profound wisdoms gleaned from colexifications:
A lot of languages do not make a difference between "lazy" and "tired".
The idea that data is objective and good data practice means eliminating bias has it backwards. Data is subjective, and good data practice means tracing and identifying how the biases inherent to the data we construct serve or don’t serve specific peoples and ends to which that data is put to use.
We are running a conference on 'Power and participation in public tech' and registration is now open to all.
📆 Friday 6th March
🕰️ 10:00 - 17:00
🏢 Manchester, UK
🔗 connectedbydata.org/events/2026...
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Sorry to hear that- that sounds tough x
🚨 6PM, WED 28 January 🚨
At TPXImpact or online
Matt Wood-Hill, MHCLG, and Linda O’Halloran, TPXimpact on public service market-shaping.
Patrick Diamond, Professor in Public Policy, Queen Mary, University of London, on government effectiveness
luma.com/pc7ji8sg
Please share! Thanks 🙏
Copilot doesn't really work for many of the use cases in LG for various reasons. There's definitely demand for something more specific - currently met by one product that has been widely adopted but is v expensive 👀
Also- hello! I was hoping you'd be at #ukgc26. Would be really lovely to catch up
Yes! We were in the pilot group of LAs for Minute, but it wasn't clear what was happening with it post -pilot. But the team heard my pitch and said hello 🎉
My specific option is "Transcription and structured document drafting seems to be emerging as the "killer app" of gen AI in local gov. Could we/how could we build and operate a shared product to avoid suppliers creaming off too much of the potential saving/benefit?"
Does that sound ok? #ukgc26
That's a good point! Big groups need a bit of planning so I'm a bit late for that
I'm thinking of pitching at #ukgc26
Something local gov. Is it better to go for general or specific topics/questions?
@ukgovcamp.com a gentle nudge to campers travelling from London: these travel problems are what colleagues in the regions face whenever called to meetings or office days in London. This is a great chance to understand their pain, and consider meeting start/finish times etc in future ! 😉
#ukgc26
