Alex
@blangry
Final year DPhil anthropology of civic tech. Principal consultant. Norwich with a cargo bike. Greyhound pictures extra.
I went to the zoo yesterday and was pleased to bump into the senator for Kentucky looking very healthy.
If only there were some way to know why research into agritech is clustered in some of the most intensely farmed arable land in Europe (and devolved nations having one).
Civic tech project to assess (using some sort of Full Fact-esque wiggle in interpretation) how many recommendations of government inquiries in the past 20 years have been implemented and, stretch goal: when they aren't, highlighting news stories of the same problems happening again.
Every so often you begin to suspect that your Google ads may have had something to do with where your GPS says you were that day.
Did this go anywhere at all @edent.tel @johnlsheridan.bsky.social? dataingovernment.blog.gov.uk/2020/11/10/w... only I have loads of fields to fill in when I save legislation to Zotero and a DOI would be heaps easier.
A long shot, but does anyone want to dogsit my lovely greyhound 10th July to 8th August or so? A dog for all seasons. A gentleman. A total dork.
Had to get an out of print book on Hansard for quote mining. Came with this beautiful bit of history in the cover.
Adam Curtis generator vibes for writing about the history of Hansard as it relates to Democracy Club on a sunny Saturday.
Had a lovely time playing Air Trombone at @transformgovtalks.bsky.social last week.
Claiming AI will be/is transforming an economy is just "can't someone else do it?". It's a tool, you have to specify how, in which way, for whom, to what end? All of this does actually need a mapped direction, a political project, perhaps even an ideology. Otherwise it's just outsourcing strategy.
Not directly dunk quoting. But: 1) So many civil liberties arguments boil down to "I don't want to be caught when _I_ break the law" 2) A big network of unaccountable private surveillance is definitely bad