Brendan Arnold
@brendanarnold.bsky.social
#CreativeTechnologist :: Policy Lab, HM Government :: Tech practitioner/Design thinking/Policymaking/Making :: Cleethorpes/Bristol/London
🧵 3/3 - ... delighted to be able to carve out time to collaborate on Collective Intelligence open-source with Citizens Foundation (citizens.is). @robertbjarnason.bsky.social and myself looked at how we can collaborate, meet UK gov criteria and prep the software for our sandbox
March 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🧵 3/3 - ... delighted to be able to carve out time to collaborate on Collective Intelligence open-source with Citizens Foundation (citizens.is). @robertbjarnason.bsky.social and myself looked at how we can collaborate, meet UK gov criteria and prep the software for our sandbox
🧵 2/3 - ... #VideoGames featured again with a viewing of Grand Theft Hamlet (www.undiscoveredcountryfilm.com) and Operation Jane Walk (totalrefusal.com/home/operati... ) at Hafnar Haus, meeting the developers of Nuts (noodlecake.com/games/nuts/ ) as well as even a visit to Baldurs Gate ...
March 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🧵 2/3 - ... #VideoGames featured again with a viewing of Grand Theft Hamlet (www.undiscoveredcountryfilm.com) and Operation Jane Walk (totalrefusal.com/home/operati... ) at Hafnar Haus, meeting the developers of Nuts (noodlecake.com/games/nuts/ ) as well as even a visit to Baldurs Gate ...
🧵 1/3 - Beyond the landscape, recent #Iceland 🇮🇸 trip highlights included a micro-residency at hafnar.haus, talks, discussions, brilliant socially conscious creatives in the former Ministry of Welfare. Lunchtime food parades and possibly the best office view ever ..
March 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🧵 1/3 - Beyond the landscape, recent #Iceland 🇮🇸 trip highlights included a micro-residency at hafnar.haus, talks, discussions, brilliant socially conscious creatives in the former Ministry of Welfare. Lunchtime food parades and possibly the best office view ever ..
Taken by how Icelanders seem to know my hometown of #Grimsby better than people in the UK do. Isolated Icelandic villages often had better ties to coastal towns around the world than Reykjavik. Got quite reflective, took a trip out to the Westfjords - came across a wrecked Grimsby trawler on the way
March 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Taken by how Icelanders seem to know my hometown of #Grimsby better than people in the UK do. Isolated Icelandic villages often had better ties to coastal towns around the world than Reykjavik. Got quite reflective, took a trip out to the Westfjords - came across a wrecked Grimsby trawler on the way
🧵 3/4 - ... it reminded me a lot of #Government. Trust is low, we hide so much complexity and it's seen as a monolith yet we strive so much for #OpenStandards, checks and balances which is partly why it seems slow - government is actually like a #RaspberryPi but we put it in a Macbook shell...
February 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🧵 3/4 - ... it reminded me a lot of #Government. Trust is low, we hide so much complexity and it's seen as a monolith yet we strive so much for #OpenStandards, checks and balances which is partly why it seems slow - government is actually like a #RaspberryPi but we put it in a Macbook shell...
🧵 2/4 - ...it felt transgressive and is maybe against IT policy but its important to know what's under the covers. Inside is a network of patterns and black boxes which we could be tempted into conspiracy ("is there a spy chip in there?") (image: Demon symbols from Ars Goetia @goth600) ...
February 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🧵 2/4 - ...it felt transgressive and is maybe against IT policy but its important to know what's under the covers. Inside is a network of patterns and black boxes which we could be tempted into conspiracy ("is there a spy chip in there?") (image: Demon symbols from Ars Goetia @goth600) ...
🧵 1/4 - In our fortnightly blue-sky session #ImaginationStation we took a closer look at the electronics around us as part of an art exploration. Part of this was logging off of Teams, shutting down the Macbook and removing the back cover to see what was inside ...
February 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🧵 1/4 - In our fortnightly blue-sky session #ImaginationStation we took a closer look at the electronics around us as part of an art exploration. Part of this was logging off of Teams, shutting down the Macbook and removing the back cover to see what was inside ...
🧵 3/4 - ... it reminded me a lot of #Government. Trust is low, we hide so much complexity and it's seen as a monolith yet we strive so much for #OpenStandards, checks and balances which is partly why it seems slow - government is actually like a #RaspberryPi but we put it in a Macbook shell...
February 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🧵 3/4 - ... it reminded me a lot of #Government. Trust is low, we hide so much complexity and it's seen as a monolith yet we strive so much for #OpenStandards, checks and balances which is partly why it seems slow - government is actually like a #RaspberryPi but we put it in a Macbook shell...
🧵 2/3 - ...it felt transgressive and is maybe against IT policy but its important to know what's under the covers. Inside is a network of patterns and black boxes which we could be tempted into conspiracy ("is there a spy chip in there?") (image: Demon symbols from Ars Goetia @goth600) ...
February 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🧵 2/3 - ...it felt transgressive and is maybe against IT policy but its important to know what's under the covers. Inside is a network of patterns and black boxes which we could be tempted into conspiracy ("is there a spy chip in there?") (image: Demon symbols from Ars Goetia @goth600) ...
🧵 2/3 - ...it felt transgressive and is maybe against IT policy but its important to know what's under the covers. Inside is a network of patterns and black boxes which we could be tempted into conspiracy ("is there a spy chip in there?") (image: demon sigals from Ars Goetha @goth600) ...
February 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🧵 2/3 - ...it felt transgressive and is maybe against IT policy but its important to know what's under the covers. Inside is a network of patterns and black boxes which we could be tempted into conspiracy ("is there a spy chip in there?") (image: demon sigals from Ars Goetha @goth600) ...
3/3 🧵 - … thanks to the organisers which are all volunteers - great event
January 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
3/3 🧵 - … thanks to the organisers which are all volunteers - great event
2/3 🧵- @edent.tel great talk on what it takes to make government software open-source - here a comment is mad fuel for conspiracy ppl…
January 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
2/3 🧵- @edent.tel great talk on what it takes to make government software open-source - here a comment is mad fuel for conspiracy ppl…
1/3 🧵 - Cross government software engineering conference today at GDS Whitechapel, presenting talk on Creative Technology in Government …
January 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
1/3 🧵 - Cross government software engineering conference today at GDS Whitechapel, presenting talk on Creative Technology in Government …
Such a buzzy vibe at #ukgc25 with really some really thoughtful discussions. Policy Lab represent with @prateekbuch.bsky.social and Lara Kinneir - Moawr pls!
January 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Such a buzzy vibe at #ukgc25 with really some really thoughtful discussions. Policy Lab represent with @prateekbuch.bsky.social and Lara Kinneir - Moawr pls!
December 28, 2024 at 1:27 AM
🧵 1/4 - I've been tracking the prediction in this 2001 BT Exact whitepaper for well over 20 years now (https://brendan.sdf-eu.org/downloads/the_future.pdf) lots of interesting predictions but perhaps the most interesting thing is how much it said about the time it was written ...
November 30, 2024 at 1:21 PM
🧵 1/4 - I've been tracking the prediction in this 2001 BT Exact whitepaper for well over 20 years now (https://brendan.sdf-eu.org/downloads/the_future.pdf) lots of interesting predictions but perhaps the most interesting thing is how much it said about the time it was written ...
Policy mini games? WarioWare for workshops? A Policy Lab #ImaginationStation session building and publishing experimental games in Downpour (thanks to @v21.bsky.social for the amazing toolkit)
November 29, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Policy mini games? WarioWare for workshops? A Policy Lab #ImaginationStation session building and publishing experimental games in Downpour (thanks to @v21.bsky.social for the amazing toolkit)
Really thoughtful and well presented futures work from Natural England 🍃 'Ecology Re-Wired' at Horizon House, Bristol. #GenerativeAI imagery, natural artefacts and especially love the quiet office pod converted into a listening booth 🎧
November 27, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Really thoughtful and well presented futures work from Natural England 🍃 'Ecology Re-Wired' at Horizon House, Bristol. #GenerativeAI imagery, natural artefacts and especially love the quiet office pod converted into a listening booth 🎧
🧵 2/3 - ... stuff wasn't tons cheaper than home and I know that locals got better deals but it felt OK since you wouldn't go to another store and see the same thing for less with no prices on display. Its a cool example of a distributed pricing policy supported by people that mostly works...
November 25, 2024 at 11:24 PM
🧵 2/3 - ... stuff wasn't tons cheaper than home and I know that locals got better deals but it felt OK since you wouldn't go to another store and see the same thing for less with no prices on display. Its a cool example of a distributed pricing policy supported by people that mostly works...
🧵 1/3 - 'Café Les Négociants' sits on the corner of a busy intersection in Marrakech - people (mostly guys) come here to make deals and people watch. When I arrived I really didn't like the negotiations when buying stuff here, no prices on anything, but after a week I started to get into it ...
November 25, 2024 at 11:24 PM
🧵 1/3 - 'Café Les Négociants' sits on the corner of a busy intersection in Marrakech - people (mostly guys) come here to make deals and people watch. When I arrived I really didn't like the negotiations when buying stuff here, no prices on anything, but after a week I started to get into it ...
Bristol Urban Forum manifesto event, culmination of a years worth of experiments in Bristol on #CitizenAssembly
November 8, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Bristol Urban Forum manifesto event, culmination of a years worth of experiments in Bristol on #CitizenAssembly
At the Vision for #CreativeTech in #Bristol panel talk - very interesting discussion of how we can form a narrative for Bristol in the UK and abroad
October 10, 2024 at 7:22 PM
At the Vision for #CreativeTech in #Bristol panel talk - very interesting discussion of how we can form a narrative for Bristol in the UK and abroad
... and finally the classics #Ultimaker and #Makerbot
September 27, 2024 at 5:50 PM
... and finally the classics #Ultimaker and #Makerbot
... laser etching/cutting ...
September 27, 2024 at 5:50 PM
... laser etching/cutting ...