I've written this up so I can cite it more easily: substrate.dougbelshaw.com/you-cant-c2p...

You can't C2PA your way out of a post-truth society

I ended up quite-posting the same thread on both Mastodon and Bluesky this morning in response to different, but related stimuli. Given that my posts are auto-d…

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Doug Belshaw@dougbelshaw.com · 5h ago

So what's the answer, Doug? Education and immersion. We learn to swim by getting in the water, and having more experienced people (and lifeguards) around us.

So what's the answer, Doug? Education and immersion. We learn to swim by getting in the water, and having more experienced people (and lifeguards) around us.

Doug Belshaw@dougbelshaw.com · 5h ago

As I've already posted with a different thread over on Mastodon this morning... I'm sympathetic to the intentions behind "sign everything to ensure it's real" but, in practice, there is no such thing as capital-t Truth on the internet. 1/4

As I've already posted with a different thread over on Mastodon this morning... I'm sympathetic to the intentions behind "sign everything to ensure it's real" but, in practice, there is no such thing as capital-t Truth on the internet. 1/4

Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · 8h ago

This image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU's murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It's AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can be checked with OpenAI's Verify tool 1/

Create a slide deck in your browser from #Markdown files. No build step, no server, no account. markdeck-3d.dynamicskillset.com

Markdeck 3D — preview

Markdeck 3D: a lightweight, accessible single-page Markdown-to-slides app, with an opt-in impress.js 3D mode, local image support, and branded themes. A fork of jourde/markdown-slidedeck.

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A fast, private notes app for your desktop. Type to search, press Enter to create. Your notes live as plain text files on your own machine; no accounts, no cloud, no one else reading them. framagit.org/dynamicskill...

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Local-first, keyboard-first notes app in the tradition of Notational Velocity. Built with Tauri v2, Nord theme, plain Markdown files.

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Highlights from 'A Philosophy of Shame' substrate.dougbelshaw.com/highlights-f...

A dashboard for freelancers that lives entirely on your computer. Track your leads, income, time, and to-do list, without subscriptions, accounts, or sending your data anywhere. framagit.org/dynamicskill...

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A dashboard for freelancers that lives entirely on your computer. Track your leads, income, time, and to-do list — without subscriptions, accounts, or sending your data anywhere.

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Curate collections of links and share them across Bluesky and the Fediverse without creating new accounts commonplace.dynamicskillset.com

Commonplace

Commonplace — federated link collections

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I’m a consultant, facilitator, and critical friend for mission-driven organisations working on digital strategy, AI literacy, and credentials. dynamicskillset.com

Dr Doug Belshaw | Dynamic Skillset Ltd

Dr Doug Belshaw is a consultant, facilitator, and critical friend helping mission-driven organisations make sense of their technology, build real capability, and make better decisions.

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Badge Studio: a simple badge generator. Tweak colours and settings and get a downloadable badge image. Works anywhere you need a recognition marker. badge-studio.dynamicskillset.com

Don't start a blog. Plant a garden. substrate.click

Substrate

Substrate is a digital garden for your notes: linked by meaning, searchable, and published at your own pace. Less like writing a blog, more like tending a garden.

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TaskDial shows you your day as a clock: tasks are coloured arcs, so you can see at a glance where you’re overloading yourself taskdial.app

TaskDial

See your day as time, not a list. TaskDial turns tasks into visual time blocks on a clock face, with built-in Pomodoro focus sessions.

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A different kind of RSS reader. Articles arrive, linger, and fade. You are not behind. stream.dynamicskillset.com/about/

Stream — A velocity-based RSS reader

Articles arrive, linger, and fade. No unread counts. You are not behind.

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A dashboard of dials for freelancers and consultants running multiple projects at once. projectdial.app

ProjectDial

A control room for your projects. Each project is a dial — stages are arcs, the needle shows where you are. See everything at once.

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I've always been fascinated with radar plots and with contour lines on maps. So I put them together into one tool: contours.dynamicskillset.com

Contours — Topographic Skills Profile Visualiser

Map your skills as topographic contour lines. A visualiser for Open Badge competency profiles.

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Heard of #SystemsThinking but don't really know what it is? Start with this free tool: sightlines.dynamicskillset.com

Sightlines by Dynamic Skillset

Three interactive tools to help you think clearly about complex situations — boundary drawing, stakeholder mapping, and connection graphing.

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Free #TechFreedom session on Wednesday 9th September. Sign up here: luma.com/event/manage...

Right, well I'm off for a week to 🇪🇸 to enjoy the ☀️ and try to avoid the 🔥

Reality Drift substrate.dougbelshaw.com/reality-drift

Major updates from Bonfire substrate.dougbelshaw.com/major-update...

There are two birds inside you.

Cockatoo and Owl Interaction

ALT: Cockatoo and Owl Interaction

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Yo dawg, I herd you like zines, so I put an zine in your zine www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iYA...

A zine as a zine insert

My upcoming zine, 'Field Notes on Productive Friction' is A5-size and 40 pages. Not really pocket-sized. So how are you going to do the self-administered audit protocol when out-and-about? Answer,…

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Earlier this month @tomcw.xyz and I set up FIELD STATION. We've started posting essays that you won't find elsewhere.

FIELD STATION@fieldstation.bsky.social · last wk.

AI doesn't replace organisational judgement — it amplifies whatever decision-making culture already exists. notes.fieldstation.xyz/essay/decisi...

As long as we have means of communication, there will be disinformation substrate.dougbelshaw.com/communicatio...

News Canary: 26 July 2026 substrate.dougbelshaw.com/news-canary-...

On 'AI psychosis' substrate.dougbelshaw.com/on-ai-psycho...

Working on 'Workflow' substrate.dougbelshaw.com/working-on-w...

I had a great catch-up with @laurahilliger.com on Wednesday and she told me about a self-directed programme of study she's created. Which got me wondering... substrate.dougbelshaw.com/how-to-itera...

An audience of one substrate.dougbelshaw.com/post-through...

The Rabbit R1 is too cute to be e-waste, so I put LineageOS on it substrate.dougbelshaw.com/rabbit-r1-an...