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There was a huge "citability" effort ~10-15 years ago focused around tracking bill revisions over time and understanding who did what and when. iirc, it used pu
by caseysoftware 3y ago
There was a huge "citability" effort ~10-15 years ago focused around tracking bill revisions over time and understanding who did what and when. iirc, it used public sources to track things on a near-daily basis.
It fell flat. It turns out lawmakers don't want accountability in any way, shape, or form.
If we want that level of transparency, we can't count on the government to do it or even accept it willingly.
- iamnotsure 3y ago"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoCouldn't that be built in spite of lawmakers wishes? Legislation and voting records are all public, are they not? And looking to the future, how long until we have an LLM monitoring C-SPAN that can start keeping very specific logs?