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Dr Charlie Harry Smith

@chsmith.bsky.social
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Digital ID at CO/DSIT Developed the first liberal political philosophy of British digital identity systems (for a DPhil at @oiioxford.bsky.social) chsmith.co.uk

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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
@leaypi.bsky.social see you in Hay, Lea! Hopefully bit less scorching by then…
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
@leaypi.bsky.social You’ll be pleased to know Father Christmas has good taste in books. Can’t wait to dig into it!
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
my sense is most philosophers agree: this is exactly wrong
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
GOTY contender (philosopher’s choice, at least)? youtu.be/oONZ_f4kwiU?...
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The Trolley Solution - Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer | Latin American Games Showcase 2025
YouTube video by GameTrailers
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
"Some kinds of writing shouldn’t, or perhaps can’t, be summarized." #authors www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
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What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Quite enjoying tracking and rating restaurants with this new app Beli that @laurelboxall.bsky.social introduced me to! beliapp.co/wMFSbUBdxVb?...
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Resharing for the after work crew!
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🎓 I’m pleased to share that my doctoral thesis is now available for download (freely – it's Open Access!) from the Oxford University Research Archive: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
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A liberal political philosophy of British digital identity systems - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive
This thesis evaluates the British state’s national digital identity systems using the tools of liberal political philosophy for the first time. Such systems are becoming ubiquitous, with public and pr...
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I’ll brave the rain, lightning and hail, he thought. It doesn’t look that bad!
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Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This week’s Kitchen Diary observer.co.uk/style/nigel-...
Creme fraiche, mozzarella and a block of Parmesan with a bunch of radishes and leaves of wild garlic sit on a scrubbed pine table.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Can you run a company as a perfect free market? Inside Disco Corp www.ft.com/content/c043... Fascinating experiment. Sounds wildly inefficient in many ways, and not sure I’d love working there, but glad someone’s trying it!
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Can you run a company as a perfect free market? Inside Disco Corp
For over a decade, a $20bn manufacturer has been conducting a radical experiment. No one has a boss or takes orders. Their decisions are guided by one thing, an internal currency system called Will
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I think the suggestion that any kind of human-to-human interaction should be replaced with human-to-chatbot interaction should be scrutinized as a kind of moral rot. It’s antisocial ideology and should be treated as such
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Ha! I’m one of those (well, for DuckDuckGo searches) Submitted a complaint to Meta too
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Great article! Had no idea how insanely readable COBOL code was until now. Let alone the gendered/gatekeeping dynamics behind its historical denigration or modern downplaying of the number of active coders…
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James Higgott @jiggott.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This blog post by @mattedgar.bsky.social resonated. 'Pragmatic ambition' is a good term that I will no doubt be using soon. blog.mattedgar.com/2025/03/29/b...
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Between the tepid bath and the cloud of vapour: a plea for pragmatic ambition
A man visiting a health resort is sitting in a steam box. Engraving, May 1869. Wellcome Collection In my most recent weeknote, I promised a blog post… Somewhere in all this between the t…
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If only someone had warned us that turning your own DNA into a saleable asset was a bad idea www.bbc.com/news/article...
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23andMe files for bankruptcy protection
The company said that it will now attempt to sell itself under the supervision of a court.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Took me a while, but I've finally deactivated X/Twitter – will be fully deleted next month. Just don't trust that even historical data is safe there anymore. Considered handle-squatting but decided it's not worth it...
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Tiny attack vector, since patched, in mobile browsers. Pretty interesting though! #passkeys “an attacker within BLE range can trick a victim into using their passkey to log the attacker's (Raspberry Pi) device into their account.”
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
An apology to John Rawls. I couldn’t really understand why he was so obsessed with the importance of stability as a political value. But now I do.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We’re so cooked y’all
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David G.W. Birch @dgwbirch.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Mastercard be like "digital identity will become the master key to a connected world, unlocking access across platforms and borders without exposing personal data"
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Mastercard Signals: Racing towards the future of payments
This issue of Signals explores seven trends signaling how payments could evolve by 2030
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Plus, if ever we needed more examples of why extreme care is needed when creating (digital) powers, even if you trust the incumbents… change can happen very fast
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Is this the US version of SpAds?
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Got views on the latest trust framework we published in November? We’d really appreciate your feedback — more detailed the better! #digitalidentity The survey linked below is open to all and closes 3rd Feb, so there’s plenty of time to collate your thoughts
enablingdigitalidentity.blog.gov.uk
Your feedback on the gamma (0.4) trust framework
In November, we pre-released the gamma (0.4) publication of the trust framework. We also highlighted that we would be seeking feedback on this latest publication to inform our ongoing work. This post ...
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
#londoners! Anyone got thoughts on living in Fulham/Parson’s Green? We’re currently in Angel/Islington but have seen some properties that way. Wondering how it would differ living out west!
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Really enjoying Richard Flanagan’s Question 7. Great writing! Weaves together such surprising threads
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
@miniaturerutter.bsky.social welcome! Nice to escape the other place…
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Dirty Dancing teaches that abortion rights are good and you should never date a guy who reads Ayn Rand, which is 90% of what you need to get through life
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
This new AI themed Wallace & Grommit is seriously tickling my pickle
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Sasha Darling PHD, MD, DSL @sashadarling.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I made a gingerbread panopticon
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
“Snowball sampling” I feel seen
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Not everyday you get the Minister in the pub! Exciting to see the trust framework becoming more useful thanks to our adoption team’s hard work to remove blockers…
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Major change to how YOU buy booze as law puts end to bringing ID on nights out
DRINKERS will be able to buy booze with digital ID next year to spare the faff of taking physical documents on a night out. New laws will let pub landlords or supermarket checkout staff verify a cu…
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Ten days left to apply for these two fantastic roles! Come and work with us at OfDIA/DSIT 🤩
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Thinking a bit lately about how the increasing use of smart phones as payment and identity infrastructure will have implications for consumer expectations of battery life, and what that means for product dev.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Got the Monday scaries? Come and work with us at OfDIA! 🆔 Two roles available in fantastic teams
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
Big fan of how the Radio 4 feature “Tweet of the Day” has outlasted tweets
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🚨I’m hiring! Help me spread the news! Have you ever slipped your driver’s licence into your phone case and thought, ‘there must be a better way?’ Lost your passport on a night out? Do topics like AI deepfakes, biometrics, wallets, age verification and inclusion interest you?
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Damning. A choice quote: “The obscenity of this mass delusion is nauseating — a monolith to bad decision-making and the herd mentality of tech's most powerful people, as well as an outright attempt to manipulate the media into believing something was possible that wasn't.”
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
calpaterson.com/porter.html
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Building LLMs is probably not going be a brilliant business
The Netscapes of AI
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“Analysis of the dataset revealed that the agency’s fraud prediction algorithm discriminated against women, migrants, low-income earners and people without a university education.” Every time… and it’s not like this stuff is a secret! www.goodreads.com/list/show/15...
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Digital Inequalities and Algorithmic Bias (21 books)
21 books based on 11 votes: More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard, Algorithms of Oppression: How S...
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This morning, l'm delighted to announce we've pre-released the much-anticipated gamma (0.4) publication of the trust framework on GOV.UK. Yes—just three days after my viva. It's been a busy few weeks! enablingdigitalidentity.blog.gov.uk/2024/11/25/a...
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
While 'Dr Smith' admittedly doesn't narrow things down an awful lot, at least there's now one more attribute for the matching algorithms... I still can't quite believe it but, on Friday, I passed my DPhil viva—with no corrections! 👨🏼‍🎓
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 23/11/2024
Our lab has been studying social media for 14 years now, and it’s refreshing to be able to say—it’s fun again.
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Dr Charlie Harry Smith @chsmith.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
@dbarnardwills.bsky.social great to see you on here! How’s things??
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I'm really excited about this one. We've opened a new @britishacademy.bsky.social call offering up to £150k for researchers to work with peers around the world to strengthen evidence informed policymaking in different contexts. Deadline 19th Feb. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/evid...
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Evidence-informed policymaking grants
This programme gives ODA-eligible early-career to senior researchers the opportunity to work with peers around the world to inform policymaking through quality evidence and research.
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