Kal Dosa is amaze - if you want a bit closer to centre maybe Chido Way if you fancy a nice Mexican place?

🧵 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 ...

This is an incredibly annoying feature for other people too when e.g. putting together a workshop plan I don’t want everyone to know about my half-baked document…

🧵 4/4 - ... really feel we should be more proud of the things we do to fend off corruption and keep government sovereign, we need to be more transparent and help people understand what they see under the covers - so important for trust and resilience

🧵 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) ...

🧵 4/4 - ... really feel we should be more proud of the things we do to fend off corruption and keep government sovereign, we need to be more transparent and help people understand what they see under the covers - so important for trust and resilience

🧵 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) ...

🧵 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