I was the inaugural Geek in Residence at the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab, working with Rohan Gunatillake and the Edinburgh Festivals on open data and digital accessibility.
Here's a video from Rudman Consulting for AmbiTIon Scotland about the Festivals API portion of the project:
"Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting “faulty” AI answers." Increasingly, incentive structures are asking them to.
A dystopian week, with a glimmer of hope: alternatives are available.
Julien Genestoux thinks the open web needs netizens. I agree – and in 2026, that's indistinguishable from citizenry.
"Nota shut down its news sites after Axios and Poynter found dozens of plagiarized quotes, phrases and photos."
