If you run a UK-based indie or community web service of some kind and are worried about the incoming Online Safety compliance duties, the Promising Trouble team have put together a mailing list and been in touch with Ofcom to see if they’ll do some engagement. No promises on getting anything resolved, but better together than alone etc https://buttondown.com/indie-and-community-web-compliance-
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Getting ready for Interesting at Conway Hall tomorrow night https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interesting-2025-tickets-981506671877
If you also think a UK DOGE is a bad idea, Sycamore Collective (a small group I'm a part of) are hosting an in-person Chatham House rules event in London on 18 June, supported by CAMRI. The aim is to identify risks and mitigations and identify some collective next steps https://lu.ma/faby2ga4?tk=p4s5AF - a very few spaces left
If you're concerned about what a UK DOGE would look like, you're not alone.
Sycamore Collective is organising a small, Chatham House rules event, hosted by CAMRI (University of Westminster), on 18 June in central London to explore options for pro-democracy future proofing.
We're asking people to "apply to attend" because we know there could be sensitivities for some attendees, and the aim is to make this a safe space for everyone who takes part.
Call for freelance researchers!
I'm looking freelance researchers to support with a literature search on the impacts of AI adoption, looking at worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety
https://www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-freelance-researchers-safe-adoption-of-ai
Fairly fast turnaround due to a slightly delayed project start, but should be super interesting for people already working in this area.
Morning! A reminder that @danmcquillan@kolektiva.social will be joining the Reading Group for Hopeful Technologists at 1pm BST for a Q&A about his book Resisting AI. Tickets are free and you can still
sign up here lu.ma/jrditlbj - feel free to listen to the Q&A while having lunch. We'll talk about anti-fascist AI, good governance, resistance and strategies for finding hope :-)
Popping back to re-up this survey for UK-based technologists and technologish folk. Do you think there's a gap for a professional body to represent and build the field of socially liberal, progressive technologists? Survey open till 21 May https://www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-survey-society-for-hopeful-technologists
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274 responses since the survey opened on Monday. We're being as open and consultative as possible to make sure that whatever this is meets a genuine need and doesn't duplicate existing efforts, so even if you're a bit sceptical would be great to get your thoughts :-)
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📌 75% feel industry leaders don't represent their views
📌 Only 15% feel confident raising concerns about the social, political and environmental impacts of technologies
📌 90% feel the UK would benefit from an orgfor socially progressive technologists
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And 85+% wanted an org that:
📌 puts forward an informed, professional perspective on critical tech issues
📌champions a progressive vision and galvanises action around socially and environmentally positive uses of technology
📌engages with government policies and consultations
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Also I hope everyone who's signed up to the email received it as buttondown seemed to do something weird. Anyway, please spread the word!
Also, *waves* I think I need to move to a different instance - does anyone have any recs? Thank you :-)
First in a series of posts from me and the Careful Trouble
team on the importance of community power in AI governance. This one is for the funders: why AI governance needs community infrastructure (and not just in the US)
https://www.promisingtrouble.net/blog/community-power-and-ai-governance-cz7jk
New edition of Just enough Internet arriving in inboxes this morning. On the Post Office Scandal, Internet Main Characters, and the power of community
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet/archive/internet-main-characters-and-a-new-home-on/
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@castarco we have been collecting names of orgs in the survey so will share them when we publish the results. Will see if there are equivalent orgs in Spain that people have mentioned.
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@luis_in_brief oh, yes, and also invoking @NoortjeMarres who will also definitely have thoughts about this
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Oh no! I just noticed a typo "ours" here; I copy and pasted from Twitter, so sorry about that, didn't mean to imply I had anything to do with this beyond thinking it's great!
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@AndyDeardentsa ah, thank you!
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@mhp I can't on my instance at the moment! You can on social, but it's not available on the one I'm on just now - someone else was asking about it the other day
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@mhp I get very giddy about it when I was on .social, as I am a legendary typo merchant