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Privacy advocates are worried about mobile driver’s licenses
Colin Wood, StateScoop, 2025/06/09

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We need proper digital identity (so, for example, we can have our drivers' licenses on our phones) but as this article makes clear, we need the right sort of digital identity. "Your identity belongs to you, and - just as with your physical identity card - your mobile driver's license doesn't need to tell anyone where you went or what you did there." That's a bit tricky, because any time you present your physical license (for example, to Officer Friendly) you do reveal where you were at that particular point in time. I don't think there's any logical way to present identity without disclosing both 'who' and 'where' but I'd be happy to be wrong here. Anyhow, lots of good discussion in this post.

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Empowering Learners for the Age of AI
OECD, 2025/06/09

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This "AI literacy framework for primary and secondary education" (43 page PDF) is from the European Commission and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and was developed by Code.org. It defines four 'domains' of AI literacy: engaging and creating with AI, and managing and designing AI. These in turn are represented as knowledge, skills and attitudes. The document also mentions that "ethical principles appear throughout the framework's knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and are reflected in multiple competences." So it's a pretty standard approach, which is to be expected given the organizations behind it. Via EdTechDigest.

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Using Pipedream MCP with OpenAI
Pipedream, 2025/06/09

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OK, I haven't tried this yet (I'm not even sure how I would try it (for me, time is the big limiter on all of this)) but it looks pretty exciting to me. The idea is that the product - called 'Pipedream' acts as middleware (specifically, a model control protocol (MCP) between OpenAI and some 2,700 APIs and 10,000 tools. Even more, "Pipedream Connect includes built-in user authentication for every MCP server, which means you don't need to build any authorization flows or deal with token storage and refresh in order to make authenticated requests on behalf of your users." I can't verify that any of these claims are valid, but I really like the sound of them.

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Zapier's AI-first hiring and onboarding
2025/06/09

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The image in this Zapier web page offers an interesting set of rubrics for AI fluency (image here) in disciplines from software engineering to customer support to HR and marketing. It's notable that the rubric reflects attitudes as much as it does skills and practices. Someone in product development who "dismisses AI as hype, showing no curiosity about user value" would be rated as "unacceptable", for example.

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BOND May 2025 Trends – Artificial Intelligence
Mary Meeker, Jay Simons, Daegwon Chae, Alexander Krey, Bond, 2025/06/09

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Do yourself a favour and take the time to read this (340 slide presentation) slowly. I spent about three hours with it Sunday evening (which is an eternity for me to spend on a single document). Sure, you might not agree with everything, or like everything, or think that everything was covered. And like me, you may not care about things like 'market cap' or 'quarterly earnings calls'. I'm not even interested in 'jobs' - I'm far more interested to know how productivity gains will be distributed across society so that we don't need 'jobs' in order to survive. In any case, you'll be treated to a compelling narrative about the significant change sweeping our society; the last decade or so has been particularly frenzied. It's chart after chart of dramatic change. Sure, any of them could reverse at any time, but they're the story of how we got to here, now. It's a great story, well told and well presented. Take the time, and enjoy it. Via George Siemens and half a dozen other sources.

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