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Ben Holliday @benholliday.com · 4d

A good explainer on the enshittification of much of the internet … IMO modern digital services in the public sector look increasingly radical when they’re built for clarity, trust, and transparency (as they should be)

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you ☺️ and likewise it was a joy to see you and catchup

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 9d

@paulclarke.com referenced your brilliant thread in this

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 9d

On Friday my phone blew up with messages about BritCard.

I don’t think it’s a tech test. It’s a trust test.

2m+ signatures against already. If trust isn’t designed in from day one, BritCard risks repeating the same failures that killed past ID schemes.

My take medium.com/writing-by-i...

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peterkwells @peterkwells.com · 13d

Remember kids, each of these can be made easier with an ID scheme but

a) it doesn't need be same ID scheme,
b) most of effort is in rest of system and services around ID scheme (eg getting nurseries to use same processes/systems),
and c) some of these are *already happening in UK*

This will result in a service that takes the best aspects of the digital identification systems that are already up and running around the world:

In Australia, citizens can access a range of private services, from banking to buying alcohol, with their digital identification, reducing the need for multiple separate accounts and pieces of paper.

In Estonia, digital ID has revolutionised parents’ lives by enabling access to child benefits, health records and applications for nursery places seamlessly, never having to provide the same information twice.

In Denmark, students can use their national digital ID to log in and automatically retrieve education records and qualifications in job and university applications.

And in India, the government has saved around US $10 billion annually by reducing fraud and leakages in welfare schemes.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14d

The head of the UK's leading anti-racism campaign group Hope not Hate wrote to Keir Starmer to complain about his "silence" in the face of a rising far-right threat.

"At the time when people needed leadership there was silence.

“And for the far right, that silence just emboldened them further"

Nigel Farage's Reform a Bigger Far-Right Threat Than the BNP, Says UK’s Leading Anti-Racism Campaigner

Hope not Hate's CEO Nick Lowles says Reform's rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even on parts of the far-right

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 14d

City hall looking lovely this afternoon. But I’m running late so no time to enjoy the sunshine, alas!

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Projects by IF @projectsbyif.bsky.social · 14d

“Fail fast” is a common mantra in tech.

But when it comes to AI, success isn’t about how fast we experiment. It’s about whether people actually use what we build.

We're hosting a panel event on 13 November in London on building trustworthy AI.

🔗 Register for your ticket luma.com/xh4nnffz

The adoption gap: How to compete in the AI age without breaking trust · Luma

AI is no longer a future trend; it’s a systems shift already transforming how organisations operate. To capture ROI and avoid costly risks, leaders must…

luma.com

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 17d

Reform hold a press conference every Monday, for which they trail a policy announcement in that morning’s papers. Given Monday is a slow news day, that often means they lead the papers – and so the breakfast shows, and so they set the agenda for the week.

It’s a good trick, but easy to counter!

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 17d

Totally agree. Online, Reform's announcement is are above the fold on every news site I visit. Why do we give them this coverage?

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17d

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 20d

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 20d

Working from a new coffee shop in my local library. 10/10.

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 20d

@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social I mean this would be MEGA

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 20d

Pal, just wrote your excellent post a reply on LinkedIn 🙌🏼

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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 21d

The fundamental challenge in technology ethics is what you consider as the boundaries of the system. bsky.app/profile/duhe...

Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · Aug 31

I might add that when I do STS interventions with techies one of the things I focus on is reflecting on how you define the boundaries of sociotechnical systems. Many things are downstream of this decision.

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 21d

Look forward to reading! And congrats

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 22d

Enjoyed listening to this episode with @timbl.bsky.social interviewed about life, obviously the web, and what he thinks about where we’ve landed.

I like the idea that podcasts are similar to the original blogosphere. Not thought about it like that before.

The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · 24d

🎙️: lnk.to/LeadingTW
📺: youtu.be/3dWBeOoLZ38

Leading

Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell, hosts of Britain's biggest podcast (The Rest Is Politics), have joined forces once again for their new interview podcast, ‘Leading’. Every Monday, Rory and Alastai...

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 23d

Coming back to work on Monday. If you run a human-centred, people first business like me, and you can use your platforms, I invite you to say something about the alt-right march on Saturday. We need to practise what we preach.

(& soz for screen shot from LinkedIn…)

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 24d

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.

As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer condemning Elon Musk for inciting violence and urging unity to defend democracy.

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 25d

Enjoy!

Yes, it’s been nice to go back to my architecture roots, and combine that with helping the exec team with their ongoing strategy and digital work etc

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 25d

I became a trustee of Open City recently, so really nice to take part in Open House London to see “where the magic happens” inside some of my local buildings. Today we visited Kaymet - a manufacturer that’s been hand making beautiful trays since 1947

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 26d

In other news - if you’ve not seen Do Ho Suh exhibition it is beautiful!

The details are something else

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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 26d

Chose the wrong day to visit the Tate. Far right march is congregating, ready to start. Flags with “Close the borders! Protect our children” printed on them. So many people. It’s making me feel dread, and fear.

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Tim "They Call Me Tojo" Johnson @tojo2k.bsky.social · 29d

There needs to be space created by AI and OS devs so that there are ways for apps that people use for privacy to be able to make privacy guarantees that aren't immediately undermined by an AI agent that has been granted the ability to do literally anything on their behalf.

Headline is trash though.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Sep 9

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!

www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

An illustration of me, and the headline: "AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker
The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security"

To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility.

Happily, it’s not too late. There is much that can still be done, particularly when it comes to protecting the sanctity of private data. What’s needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents. First, privacy must be the default, and control must remain in the hands of application developers exercising agency on behalf of their users. Developers need the ability to designate applications as “sensitive” and mark them as off-limits to agents, at the OS level and otherwise. This cannot be a convoluted workaround buried in settings; it must be a straightforward, well-documented mechanism (similar to Global Privacy Control) that blocks an agent from accessing our data or taking actions within an app.

Second, radical transparency must be the norm. Vague assurances and marketing-speak are no longer acceptable. OS vendors have an obligation to be clear and precise about their architecture and what data their AI agents are accessing, how it is being used and the measures in place to protect it.

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Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social · Sep 9

Mentoring works.
"The most significant thing that has changed within me has been my confidence [...] and also my networking and connections have grown. I couldn’t be anymore happy with my mentor." - Current mentee

Become an Arts Emergency mentor 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...

Apps close 29 Sep 25

A room with many people of different ages and ethnicities talking across tables at the mentoring introduction event

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