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it's B! Cavello 🐝Mar 15, 2024

Looks cool (NYC but will be streamed)
https://nycsodata24.sched.com/event/1aiMY
The Human Side of Open Data: Bridging Digital Humanities and Public Interest Tech
#TagZone #CivicTech #PublicInterestTech #OpenData #Humanities #PIT

it's B! Cavello 🐝Feb 22, 2024

Q for you #USHistory buffs:
What is the historic precedent for grants from private industry to the government? Is this a longstanding thing a la the merchant marine? Is there an official record tracking these contributions?
https://www.usdigitalresponse.org/press-release/u-s-digital-response-to-help-governments-create-capacity-and-expand-expertise-in-generative-ai-with-support-from-google-org
#TagZone #USDR #CivicTech #USDigitalResponse #GenerativeAI

U.S. Digital Response

it's B! Cavello 🐝Feb 18, 2024

Last chance to enter!
The #Reporting on #AI Hall of Fame closes tomorrow Feb 19, 2024, at 11:59pm.
Have you written about the way people are using automation (for good or ill)?
Submit great examples of AI journalism: https://techprimers.aspendigital.org/hall-of-fame/
#TagZone #HallOfFame #Contest #AIJournalism #TalkBetterAboutAI

Reporting on A.I. Hall of Fame - Aspen Digital

The best reporting on AI from 2023 emphasizes the humans using and making the technology and is specific about how these tools are used.

Emerging Tech Primers

it's B! Cavello 🐝Feb 16, 2024

Just came across this #HistoricalMarker website, which seems like a cool thing to exist.
https://www.hmdb.org/
#TagZone #History #ReadThePlaque #HistoricalMarkers #Database

The Historical Marker Database

Public history cast in metal, carved on stone, permanently marked.

it's B! Cavello 🐝Feb 9, 2024

#Seeking recommendations for #Audio editing software that is #ScreenReader #Accessible!
One of my friends has progressive vision loss, but loves music and has been searching for a tool that they can use with VoiceOver.
Please boost!

#TagZone #a11y #Blind #LowVision #VisionLoss #DAW

it's B! Cavello 🐝Feb 8, 2024

This is a role that can be hugely influential as a force of good governance: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/774245800
#TagZone #PublicService #Job #CRS #NowHiring

Director, Congressional Research Service

This position is located in the Office of the Director, Congressional Research Service. The position description number for this position is 448536. This is a supervisory, non-bargaining unit position. Relocation expenses may be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement.

USAJOBS

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it's B! Cavello 🐝Jan 29, 2024

@xogium is it due to the structure of posts that you have to read the whole post before getting to the images? Curious because I’ve tried sometimes adding #TagZone as a flag for where tags start in case someone wants to skip over them, but maybe that’s not useful if the post has an image?

it's B! Cavello 🐝Jan 21, 2024

Want to make moves into AI policy? I'm sharing my top 5 tips! 🏆
This week: Be the reply guy you want to see in the world
https://posts.bcavello.com/how-to-get-into-ai-policy-part-3/
#TagZone #AIPolicy #CareerAdvice #BringBackBlogging

How to get into AI policy (part 3)

B Cavello

it's B! Cavello 🐝Jan 8, 2024

In the spirit of new beginnings, over the next month, I'll be sharing my top 5 pieces of advice for people looking to get a start in #AIpolicy
There are about as many paths into this space as there are people, but I'm sharing some of my own reflections that I hope will be useful to others who are trying to figure out where to start.
https://posts.bcavello.com/how-to-get-into-ai-policy-part-1/
#TagZone #HowTo #CareerAdvice #ArtificialIntelligence #PublicPolicy

How to get into AI policy (part 1)