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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.
Also, *waves* I think I need to move to a different instance - does anyone have any recs? Thank you :-)
I'm running another Ofcom Q&A for people who run small, low-risk sites in the UK, who want to know more about compliance with the Online Safety Act https://buttondown.com/indie-and-community-web-compliance-/archive/7-ofcom-virtual-qa-event-23-october/ - send your questions in by 15 October
Just sent the first email to the Society for Hopeful Technologists mailing list, with results of our survey. We had 522 respondents from across the UK, working in the field of public interest tech.
Quick thread to follow with headlines
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.
Getting ready for Interesting at Conway Hall tomorrow night https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interesting-2025-tickets-981506671877
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
Good morning! A reminder that the survey to help design the Society for Hopeful Technologists is open for responses. If you're a UK-based technologist who's had enough of extractive platform capitalism and wants to act in solidarity to build something better, please fill it in and share with others https://www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-survey-society-for-hopeful-technologists
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/
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
What a brilliant opportunity - The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort. https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/fellowships/ #GreenWebFoundation #DigitalRights #ClimateJustice
