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Rachel Coldicutt

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Internet person. Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy. https://www.careful.industries https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet DMs don't work but hello [at] careful.industries will find me eventually

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · Dec 4

Anyway, yes, #FOMOisnotastrategy and here I am making it a hash tag like it's 2010 buttondown.com/justenoughin...

FOMO is not a strategy

End of year reflections on how people are using genAI at work

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 1d

I always remember Grant McCracken asking us (participants in a workshop) - "so given VUCA, when should we flip from 'Keep Calm and Carry On' to 'Freak Out and Throw Things'?"

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

that is excellent

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

Also - just in case it wasn't clear - I LOVE everything about the frog and the dancing axlotl and shaming the man babies

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote something about the state of geopolitics and disinfo this week and was asked to make it more neutral and academic, but I feel surely using neutral and academic terminology to describe whatever is going on here just makes it seems normal? Feels important to keep it seeming weird af.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case you need it. We have a new kitten.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

Actually they both sound great. thank you!

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

This is very sensible

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh that wouldn't have to occured to me thanks

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

what. please, is the best way to use up kiwi fruit that isn't just "eat a lot of kiwi fruit"?

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

We have *loads* of input from the grantee side on what works for them. Anyway, sounds great - I would love to see a DSIT/MHCLG collaboration on this (as I wrote about in my @powertochange.org.uk essay! www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...)

The digital disconnect: taking digital social policy seriously - Power to Change

In our next essay, Rachel Coldicutt explores the urgent need for a community-centred approach to technology policy in the UK. From WhatsApp-powered communit ...

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote a bit about it here www.careful.industries/inclusive-in... and have something else forthcoming, also need to publish the write up of a vg Community AI roundtable in the summer, so lots of groundwork but difficult to get commitments from people with money

Inclusive Innovation: From Hype to Hope Green Paper — Careful Industries

To be effective, innovation must work for everyone. Yet, more than three decades into the digital revolution, the opportunities and benefits that technologies bring are still not equitably shared. Thi...

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

Importantly needs to contribute to core funding, not projects, over multiple years, ideally be a mixed model of both investments and outcomes (have been working on an outcomes model inspired by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social) and not just foundations but other kinds of patient capital

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

I have had MANY conversations about this, nearly got somewhere this year, but has fizzled. Would be up for a conversation - we have a huge network of makers, but my abilities to shake the magic money tree close to zero

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

He could go and do some high-profile charity work if he wants to be in the public eye and make a very reasonable living from after-dinner speeches in Dubai. He definitely doesn't have a social mission. What is going on there - is it just money?

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

Lots to 👀👀 about in here but this made me LOL www.theguardian.com/politics/202... what is it that drives Clegg to be an eternal hanger on?

A spokesperson for Clegg, who as president for global affairs at Meta jointly hosted the dinner, said :"During his time at Meta Nick Clegg regularly met with government ministers and leaders from other tech companies. As the executive responsible for policy and global affairs that was literally his job."

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

on.ft.com/4nPbqp8 Sam Altman is really great at getting people to give him money

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d

I find the idea of a consultation on digital ID for kids aged 13+ to be so depressing. Good luck to you if you can get through secondary school without biometric scans and points-based behaviour management and someone checking your location every time you wander in the wrong direction

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d

I've been thinking about this post a lot today (related, my son got a detention for "not having his shirt tucked in") and the whole "seeing like a state" approach to rule-based and technocratically managed childhoods is so at odds with anything that will produce resilient, curious, confident adults

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

@risu.bsky.social 😆😆😆 but also WTAF

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think that is on record. It could potentially be delivered the internal govt team building One Login

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like you've got me mixed up with someone who has made completely different points about completely different things?

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d

I did, and that's not my point! My point is that the comms are very inconsistent. 2 weeks ago it was announced this would ONLY be for right to work. A service created to ensure right-to-work checks are accurately processed does not need a consultation to find out if 13 yr olds should use it.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d

I don't share her views but the Princess of Wales was writing in the Times about how problematic smartphones are only yesterday. It's like reverse comms

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think anyone has pressed the issue of the OS that hard, but I would wager that an optional product could be shipped inside of a month if the market wanted it. I think more the fact that having a digital ID that requires a modern smartphone is the opposite of being "smartphone free"

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d

But also, the quickest and cheapest way to do age verification for online services is to get Google and Apple to make an operating system for u16s, which will come loaded onto new devices and be downloadable for free.

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