🔮 Oh, Facebook! IQ, speeding evolution, slowing science; designing chatbots; Chomsky vs Piaget; clothes rental, exoplanets, the poop catalogue++ #192

Chomsky vs. Piaget

Dept of podcasts 🎧

For so long, we have neglected the workforce of public service. We have not invested in it. We have not helped them get the skills. Imagine you're running any company in the world and you don't have a skilled workforce that's up to date on the trends, of course they're not going to perform.

I had the great pleasure to talk to Lisa Witter, the co-founder of Apolitical, a startup connecting public servants across the globe around knowledge-sharing and best-case policymaking. We discussed the state of public service, equipping government with skills for the digital age, and reviving trust in public institutions through storytelling. 

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🤦 Oh, Facebook! A New York Times investigation suggests that Facebook took a strategy of "delay, deny and deflect" when dealing with the fall out of Russian disinformation on its platform. This went …