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"We are the asteroid *and* we are the dinosaur", but "the beauty is in the pattern recognition". Jeanette Winterson on AI. Art. You. at KCL :)

Chatting to llama3 pretending to be the orang-utan Librarian from Terry Pratchett's Discworld, thanks to @ollama making local install super-easy. Was expecting a few more "ooks" :).

Assembling slides for a talk about Open Data Standards and why they're awesome, needed a fictional person as an example, went with little Bobby Tables :) xkcd.com/327/

My friend Stephen is a horological genius, and here's his ace talk on what drives him to magic up new watch mechanisms, including why he doesn't enjoy it much despite winning the watch oscars, the joy/pain of detail and sewage pumping stations youtube.com/live/J1xQWripj…

Turns out if you buy a lovely print from Kate at thecraftybrum.com you also get a beautiful hand written message :)

Fantastic to see a focus on female scientists at the #UKHSA22 conference

Go work *with* not *for* these lovely people if you want interesting, ethical "data for good" work. It's a co-op so you get to co-own and co-run the company with profit sharing and a flat hierarchy! ❤️

📢 We're hiring! We’re looking data analysts to provide open data publisher support. You will work with a wide variety of organisations to help them publish and use open data using specific open data standards. Head to our jobs page for more details 👇 opendataservices.coop/jobs/

It’s #CoopFortnight! This year @CooperativesUK are encouraging people to #JoinACoop. We'll be hiring soon – so sign up to our jobs newsletter and we’ll keep you in the loop when we publish new opportunities to join our co-operative. opendatacoop.medium.com/heads-up-were-…

Fantastic work all! It's been great over the past few months to collaborate with Presidential Hackathon teams across the world to get them up and running with OCDS & OC4IDS.

Pleased to see National Data Strategy flags forthcoming work on data standards across govt. 3 open data standards we work on (OCDS, IATI & 360Giving) are now official UK govt data standards. We look forward to feeding in more to the strategy gov.uk/government/con…. (by @pindec)

Hello (lovely) nerds. I'm trying to build a list of tech companies and projects that are doing non-evil, actively good things. Tell me about some? Also, RT for a bigger sample set, if it's not a bother 💖

@jesslynnrose I'm part of @opendatacoop, a co-operative that helps people publish & use open data for social impact. Ethical, flexible work, flat structure, equal pay, and when I was ill recently with covid-19, I was even more thankful to be part of a supportive co-op that cares about people.

For community data projects to be useful, we need to think about the challenges they face: getting good data and keeping it fresh. @jarofgreen has shared his tips for doing this work well 👇 medium.com/opendatacoop/c…

ODSC wish to extend a happy International Workers Day to all :-) We have been a worker-owned organisation from the very start and we've recently turned five! Check out our birthday blog post to learn more about our journey: medium.com/opendatacoop/o…

One of our young Windows on the World makers will be on @bbcwm at 10:15 tomorrow am talking about the project! #WotW

@goodhen I assume it was in the craft stuff we inherited from you :). That or a weirdly specific space-time wormhole has sneaked open in our craft drawer... I guess I'd better check that there is still no writing in it tomorrow.

@pindec Wait... what? Where did that come from??

Xmas sorted. Thanks secret santa!

@goodhen Yes! Now is the time for the Finishing of all those Started Projects. And this mysterious (blank) book has come out too :)

@pindec I'm wondering if this book is coming off the shelves for some action imminently? :)