“This is the common fuel animating the rather disparate furies of militant doomers, anti-AI activists, data center protestors, and labor organizers alike: the profound antidemocratic tendency inherent in the modern AI project.” https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-the-ai-backlash-has-turned-violent

“Regulators can and should take an initial step by releasing Markdown versions of all of the PDFs they release.” Yessssss: https://mhsu2112.substack.com/p/policy-as-code

@adamchainz Adam I just read https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/09/18/git-dont-create-gitkeep/ and was like, huh, this is so much better, I never would have thought of that! Thanks for sharing! 🙏

“Our purpose as humans is to find joy in lifting each other up by creating solutions together instead of destroying, and when you see it from out here it doesn’t change it, it just absolutely reaffirms that.” Jeremy Hansen: https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2026/apr/10/artemis-ii-return-splashdown-nasa-orion-moon-live-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69d7ceac8f08a86a0e5629f0#block-69d7ceac8f08a86a0e5629f0 #Artemis

“Nous devons nous désensibiliser des outils américains et reprendre le contrôle de notre destin numérique.” David Amiel, ministre de l'Action et des Comptes publics (France): https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/ #DigitalSovereignty #GCdigital via @sleepycat

(paging @donmoyn)

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone.” https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263 #uspol

“…then it might be time to worry that you’ve already gone too far in putting a function that’s crucial to your company’s survival on the other side of a corporate boundary.” Dan Davies on vendor lock-in: https://backofmind.substack.com/p/brain-donors-of-the-firm

NASA live broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo #Artemis

Go! #Artemis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8hzqwwhLeE (from the Public Broadcasting Service's The Race for Space)

“They see their chance to run the playbook again, and do to Wikipedians what Uber did to cab drivers, to get users addicted to closed apps like they are to social media, to force podcasters to chase an algorithm like kids on TikTok.” @anildash: https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/

“The point is not that some individual is behaving badly. It is simply that the entire organization can become rationally blind to declining quality, because the immediate cost of vigilance falls on those who must deliver quickly, while the cost of the damage is pushed into the future…” via @aparrish https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367

“Britain’s public services are often described as broken. At the heart of this is a simple truth: they rely too often on inadequate digital systems.” Ben Terrett: https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/britain-doesnt-have-a-public-services-crisis-it-has-a-digital-one-5HjdWs9_2/ #GCdigital

“To opt out, GitHub users should visit /settings/copilot/features and disable "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" under the Privacy heading.” https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github_ai_training_policy_changes/

(Should more of these postings be open to the general public? Absolutely.)

Yukon government friends! The Procurement Support Centre in HPW is hiring a data and information analyst as a 1-year TA. You’d be working with an awesome team. 📊

Details here (apply by March 30, only open to existing YG employees): https://yukongovernment.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/65980 #Yukon #Whitehorse

“From there, we might bid ourselves up to accepting that investments in the welfare state, arts and culture, and infrastructure are also non-negotiable, the price of building a country worth living in.” An outstanding read from David Moscrop: https://www.davidmoscrop.com/p/canada-is-a-nation-of-cheapskates #cdnpoli

“It also found a remarkable deference to Microsoft, even as the company’s products and practices were central to two of the most damaging cyberattacks ever carried out against the government.” https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government #GCdigital

“So, sure, you can get better vendors to bid, do a better job of checking vendors’ references, and do a better job preparing to outsource, but better than all of those is simply hiring people who understand how software is made.” @waldoj: https://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2026/02/hire-software-developers/ #GCdigital

“To be palatable to elite funders, neoliberal public service organizations frame social issues as commitment and effort problems rather than power problems.” (via @skinnylatte) https://www.philanthropy.com/opinion/commons-krause-talentcrisis/