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My weekly blog post: In this blog post I reflect on my experience working in government and the limitations of policy. I recently listened to a podcast about how government can drive innovation and creativity through policy entrepreneurship, including setting up prizes and competitions, using the convening power of political leaders, and making policy changes. https://chosen-path.org/2023/04/05/if-you-really-want-to-get-something-done-turn-to-the-government/
In this post, I reflect on the separation between transactional service design and service design fully engaged with place and people. I express disappointment that service design outside of digital defaulted to face-to-face contact point design and lost track of business process analysis. I see glimmers of hope that there might be a synthesis coming in service design and mentions recent tenders driven by savings that seem to cover the territory between actual citizen-involved services and digital. https://chosen-path.org/2023/04/01/digital-vs-service-design-vs-bpr-vs-toms-versus-designing-services-in-organisations-for-people-and-the-role-of-gds/
Maps, Territories, and Optimization: A Talk with Dr. Michael Zargham – YouTube
The article explores the potential of systems thinking as a force for good in the world by rediscovering and developing its pragmatist roots. Pragmatism provides an appropriate philosophy for systems thinking, with Warren Weaver and the three pioneers of the systems approach adopting a pragmatist orientation. Critical systems thinking and practice can enable systems thinking to realise its potential, embracing pluralism and bringing about improvement in the world. Pragmatism and critical systems thinking: Back to the future of systems thinking – Integration and Implementation Insights – Jackson (2023)
The widespread use of AI/ML is a practice of mapping and manipulating the physical, mental, and social world, but humans and the social world cannot be neatly mapped or predicted. Despite this, researchers and tech companies continue to develop tools claiming to classify or predict human behavior. The integration of these tools has implications for our techno-futures, including how languages are being altered due to automated content moderation. The Santiago Boys – podcast coming summer 2023 from Evgeny Morozov
Human memory may be unreliable after just a few seconds, scientists find: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110148302984628061
Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110146415538764030
100 years of road numbers: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110142640709692168
Are we on the verge of having a ‘Universal Teacher’? https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110142105913699836
Humans, huh. What a trip.
His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent.: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110141696972031339
Social care reform funding halved for England, government confirms: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110140753200240149
Places available – Outcome Based Commissioning: a 10 step introduction – Cohort 6. PSTA, 17 May onwards. Find out more here: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110136346003600395
Local Government Explained Part 2: What do councils do? – New Local: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110136034603883264
A teacher writes…
Reasonable Mistake: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110135617800742574
A fascinating blog on alphabets, symbols, and communications – and some insight into the history of emojis.
BabelStone Blog : What’s new in Unicode 8.0 ? https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110134583922590371
An Oral History of Laurel Canyon, the Sixties and Seventies Music Mecca: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110131316029188794
From “Kubla Khan” through GPT and beyond – 3 Quarks Daily: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110127950120995422
Oscars 2023: The philosophy of Everything Everywhere All at Once explained: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110125653727530278
Everything Everywhere All At Once: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110125118988665521
The DAIR Institute: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110123766286175208
Creating Colonisable Land: Cartography, ‘Blank Spaces’, and Imaginaries of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Germany: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110123259048639671
The Tyranny of a Red Free Zone: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110119991408425843
Morozov twice in one day…
The problem with artificial intelligence? It’s neither artificial nor intelligent | Evgeny Morozov: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110118630945243626
It makes you wonder how rotten England is, and how long it has been rotten. Very sad.
Every fire brigade in England plagued by bullying and harassment claims, report finds: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110118103996335665
Very sad. I saw all the movies of Kusturica here and many more, attended a Top of the Pops filming, and hosted Dead Air on Riverside 97.9fm in the graveyard shift (then, for some reason, got up and cycled over to do reviews on the morning news!)
London’s Riverside Studios to enter administration: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110117596741715614
Home Office: Child asylum seekers will be restrained if they ‘resist’ deportation: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110114329100907830
Episode 58: Donald Hoffman: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110113794377051960
A very short introduction to Balint groups « The Balint Society: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110113385394131771
Britain’s new stability is built on soft foundations: https://mastodon.social/@antlerboy/110112968922647061
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