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mySociety @mysociety.org · 3h

Don't forget to reserve your spot for our free online session - we'll run through what's new on our Parliamentary website TheyWorkForYou, and how it could be useful for your work, campaigning, or life in general! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/theyworkfo...

Text: updates on TheyWorkForYou - join us to find out what's new!
Background: a photo looking up towards Parliament's ornate and gilded ceiling.

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Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org · 4h

📢 Call for Abstracts: Participatory AI Development, Governance and Power at PAIRS26, taking place alongside the India AI Impact Summit in Feb 26! 🚀

www.pairs.site/

Open for papers, presentations or poster abstracts for online or in-person (Delhi) sessions. Deadline: 31st October.

PAIRS: Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium

Exploring how public voices can shape the future of artificial intelligence.

www.pairs.site

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 8h

This, from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, is really useful advice for young (and, tbh, old!) academics. Worth passing on if you know any, maybe? catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org · 21h

At our last Data & AI public engagement community Anna Beckett spoke about evaluating @civicdatacoop.bsky.social's Residents’ Assembly, sharing tips & learning from her experience.

📽️ Watch a video of the presentation youtu.be/0Al5iL-otsc or read the notes & more connectedbydata.org/events/2025...

Data and AI public engagement: Community of Practice

On Wednesday 8 October 2025 we held the twelfth meeting of a community of practice as part of our project on Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects.

connectedbydata.org

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 1d

🌈 It’s been fascinating to see which ideas from Rainbow Trap *stick* with readers – and the idea of box breakers has been one of those sticky ideas!

So... who are box breakers? 🧵

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Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org · 23h

On 6th Oct @timdavies.org.uk co-hosted a fringe event of the OGP Global Summit, with Participation AI, Open Contracting Partnership & Posterity Global that launched the Principles for Public Participation in the Procurement of AI.
connectedbydata.org/events/2025...
(photo: @opengovpartnership.org)

Photo of a postcard showing the principles for procurement. Tim is standing (out of focus) in the background.

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Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 1d

My team are helpfully threatening to do a 'gogglebox' style review of my performance in front of the SIT Committee tomorrow...

Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 1d

The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is taking evidence tomorrow for its Digital Centre of Government inquiry committees.parliament.uk/event/25253/... (video)

With @njdavies.bsky.social, Jason Liggins, @gaiamarcus.bsky.social, @jenitennison.com

#govtech #techpolicy #datapolicy etc.

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 1d

The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is taking evidence tomorrow for its Digital Centre of Government inquiry committees.parliament.uk/event/25253/... (video)

With @njdavies.bsky.social, Jason Liggins, @gaiamarcus.bsky.social, @jenitennison.com

#govtech #techpolicy #datapolicy etc.

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Nora Ni Loideain @nniloideain.bsky.social · 1d

Very excited for all the debate and discussion on the right to privacy in an era of AI, surveillance, data retention with this stellar panel:

Prof David Feldman (University of Cambridge)
Prof Orla Lynskey (UCL)
James Baker (Harvard)
Robert Spano (Former President of ECtHR)

Hope you can join us!

InfoLawCentre@IALS @infolawcentre.bsky.social · 1d

Only 2 days to go!

Join us on Wednesday for a timely discussion on the themes and findings of the book - EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime.

@ials.bsky.social @nniloideain.bsky.social

InfoLawCentre@IALS @infolawcentre.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are pleased to announce a new event - 'Better Regulation’ of Data Retention and Human Rights? EU Data Privacy Law, Serious Crime, and National Security

🗓️ 15 October 2025, 5:30pm-6:30pm, in-person at IALS

Book your place now! 👇
ials.sas.ac.uk/events/bette...

@nniloideain.bsky.social

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

…are in fact the ones doing the silencing. Bindel getting an article in mainstream media yesterday when no trans person did, evidences my point.

This type of hate activism is closely related to Mirror Propaganda, another dishonest (they’re all dishonest) strategy deployed by GC transphobes.

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How anti-trans activists silence their opponents

People claiming to be ‘silenced’ are being featured in national mainstream media platforms. There’s a word for that

www.opendemocracy.net

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

Provoke and Publicise was originally used as a strategy by the racist segregationists about Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957 to try and enforce a different, but equally invalid form of apartheid. It involves provoking a response from the victims of oppression and then…

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 2d

We also wrote over 4 months ago to the Brighton Centre and begged them to cancel hosting a de facto genocidal hate movement that wraps itself in the camouflage of feminism.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 2d

New short blog: Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

growinguptransgender.com/2025/10/12/t...

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 2d

Thoughtful read on how prompts shift the political imagination & how it may influence government decision making. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI

This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

www.tandfonline.com

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Ally Tibbitt @allytibbitt.me · 2d

This sounds... bad.

futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 2d

Oh that's very good @duncanjbrown.com - thanks for the recommendation @dracos.co.uk

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Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 3d

Congratulations! And great storytelling :)

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New Local @wearenewlocal.bsky.social · 4d

🔈 New Job Opportunity: Head of Practice

We're looking for a Head of Practice to lead and deliver our work with councils, the NHS & other public and voluntary bodies across the UK

Everything you need to know is here 👇

Closing date: Monday, 10 November.

Join us!

www.newlocal.org.uk/about/jobs/

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Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 4d

Yeah it only registered with me after I'd read it and saw the headline again in the list! Clever, and annoyingly effective.

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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 4d

“We cannot keep relying on digital surveys that are inaccessible to people outside the AI governance realm who do not have the resources to engage.”

Instead, Brandusescu suggested town halls as a solution to “bring government to the people.”

'Flawed and broken’: Critics warn Ottawa’s AI task force is too industry focused

Academic and community leaders are criticizing Ottawa’s AI Strategy Task Force for being too heavily tilted toward industry. Find out more.

financialpost.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 4d

Edtech is canceral (prison) tech example 56489.
The only job this is preparing children for is a zero hours Amazon warehouse job where they will be timed and filmed at all times.

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 4d

@risu.bsky.social 😆😆😆 but also WTAF

A screenshot from Reddit showing an email from an automated tracking system informing a British parent that their child left lessons 3 times last week to go to the bathroom, and subtly hinting that that is unacceptable.

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Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 4d

The irony of the clickbait article about the pope's condemnation of clickbait being the most viewed article...

The Guardian Most viewed list of articles is topped by one reading "You won't believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned"

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Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org · 4d

📢 Call for Abstracts: Participatory AI Development, Governance and Power at PAIRS26, taking place alongside the India AI Impact Summit in Feb 26! 🚀

www.pairs.site/

Open for papers, presentations or poster abstracts for online or in-person (Delhi) sessions. Deadline: 31st October.

PAIRS: Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium

Exploring how public voices can shape the future of artificial intelligence.

www.pairs.site

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Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 5d

AI the technology might not have been critical, but maybe AI the buzzword is useful for getting necessary investment into things like digitisation and systems/process transformation which are.

(I'm half serious.)

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 6d

Question for today - will the 2029 UK general election be the first where the '2nd dimension' dominates vote choice (rather than also being important) - which looks like very bad news for the 'old' parties or /1

Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 7d

You can see clearly the party space fragmenting as Reform dominate the authoritarian (and increasingly the 'moderate') groups but staying virtually at 0 on the liberal left. While the Greens move to a strong second place in the liberal left group but struggle outside that group.

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