Edward Saperia
@edsaperia.bsky.social
Dean of The London College of Political Technology https://newspeak.house
It's STEAM SUMMER SALE time! Which means I've updated my Steam Curator page with everything I've enjoyed recently. I'll also be picking out the best deals in this thread - bookmark this post! If you like what I do, consider tipping! (Ko-Fi/Paypal) - All tips go towards more indie games to research!
Steam Curator: Dominic Tarason's Opinionation Station
Info-tags aside (for listing stuff) this is 100% personal recommendations on games I've played. Expect a lot of weird, indie, undersold or otherwise mysterious stuff, plus the occasional mainstream fa...
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Bad Services is out today and I'd like to take this opportunity to announce my unwavering support for services that don't work. So much so that I've launched a new sister company - The Bad Services Corporation Welcome to your Bad Services Corporation staff induction. badservicescorp.com
We're holding a meet up in London on 1st July. It doesn't matter if you're an author, broadcaster, tour guide or general hustler, you're more than welcome as long as you work in history and aren't part of academia (sorry lovely academics!) DM us for location as places are limited!
If you’re in London tonight and are interested in journalism/tech, this is taking place *in an air conditioned room*: luma.com/09ugslis
Journalism Technology London Meetup · Luma
Join us for Journalism Technology London Meetup, a series of events aimed at building a community of journalists, technologists, and technical…
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Strip mining is like strip poker - terrible for the environment.
All governance starts out as either "ban everything" or "allow anything". Exploring what exists between is called policy development, otherwise known as civilization.
Yay! I'm hiring two Senior Accessibility Specialists to join my team on GOV.UK One Login. You'll be working with great people, solving complex problems for tens of millions of users. Salary of £70,834 - £74,317 (London) / £63,240 - £66,610 (National). Please share!
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"NHS England is hurriedly withdrawing all the software it has written from public view because of the perceived risk of hacking [from AI]" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2524962-nhs-england-rushes-to-hide-software-over-ai-hacking-fears An open letter to keep it open https://keepthingsopen.com
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2524962-nhs-england-rushes-to-hide-software-over-ai-hacking-fears
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Our next event! 🚨 6PM, WED 29th April 🚨 At the MoJ or online. Lisa Trickey and Rebekah Wilson, LGA : LG2040: The State of Things to Come Jonathan Slater (ex DfE Perm Sec), Visiting Professor at King’s College London and QMUL luma.com/7nu2j853 Please share! Thanks 🙏
TransformGov Talks: April 2026 · Luma
Lisa Trickey and Rebekah Wilson, Local Government Association on the state of digital Local Government and LG2040: The State of Things to Come Jonathan Slater,…
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If you happen to be in London Monday evening I will be talking about institutionalising the digital state at NewSpeak House nationalconversations.org/events/4/
Institutionalising the Digital State — Events — NationalConversations.org
Digital transformation is traditionally seen as something the political class do to the civil service. In fact it requires transformational change to political institutions, parliaments and the struct...
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