Murmuration! @sarahtgold.bsky.social

Jeni Tennison@jenitennison.com · 6mo ago

OpenClaw / Moltbook is a pretty nightmarish development given not only the security risks but the likelihood of complex emergent behaviours arising from communicating agents. It's not awareness. It's murmuration.

Most pieces should be 3, or 2, or 1 thing only? www.holdfastprojects.com/3-2-1 (and not 6 things like that illustration)

Most pieces should be 3, 2 or 1 things - Rod McLaren: Words that work

Present 3 things. Or decide between 2 options. Or show 1 thing. And whichever you choose, the piece should have only 1 aim. OK, sometimes a piece

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Guderian bosses Evri's hardest route, Patton remains loyal to Amazon

Eleanor Doughty@brushingboots.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Nice to see that the Desert Fox is now working for DPD

closed 689 browser tabs, is that bad

Is your system accountable to Newton, Darwin or Octavia Butler? www.holdfastprojects.com/accountable-...

Great list of working in the open examples by @gilestur.bsky.social . Challenge for product and comms teams: in an quanty era of metrics, how do we *prove* the value to orgs of working in the open?

Giles Turnbull@gilestur.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m often asked for examples of good ‘working in the open’ - so I’ve made a list of some of my favourites, and I’ll do my best to keep it updated as I hear about new ones. It’s called “Doing open” gilest.org/doingopen/

Recommended: Estimating digital carbon emissions workshop www.holdfastprojects.com/greenweb - by @mrchrisadams.bsky.social‬ and Katrin Fritsch of Green Web Foundation - helpful on measuring emissions of digital services, and energising!

Animals! Thoughtful discussion! This will be good

sonia@soniaturcotte.bsky.social · last yr.

Yo I'm doing starting a new thing. Slow reading! Online! Animals! Open to anyone, with no prior reading or experience needed to join other than an interest in animals and reading with others. soniaturcotte.com/animali/

the AIs don't know what their carbon emissions are www.holdfastprojects.com/chat-carbon-... , so does the first AI co to publish its emissions get a reputational boost?

If you're a UK-based technologist who's had enough of extractive platform capitalism and wants to act in solidarity to build something better, please fill in this survey and share with others www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

Survey: Society for Hopeful Technologists — Careful Industries

Are you a UK-based technologist interested in joining a body that acts in solidarity against the excesses of extractive platform capitalism? Complete this survey to help shape the Society for Hopef...

careful.industries

find yourself a confident team like this and let it rip (I still chuckle too!)

Anna Goss@annagoss.co · last yr.

I still chuckle at this report cover sometimes. Grateful to work with a team who are confident enough to inject personality and wit into the work. What's the point otherwise? cc @soniaturcotte.bsky.social @rodm.bsky.social @eliotf.bsky.social

You can put a carbon.txt file on your website so your org's sustainability disclosures are discoverable, says carbontxt.org. Er I think mine works www.holdfastprojects.com/carbon-text

This work from FF studio 👏 Any org who provides grants/gives away money, take a look Applicable EVERYWHERE Supportive for users, good for orgs www.ff.studio/projects/gra... Big up Debs Durojaiye @abscond.org who worked on it Supported by @annagoss.co @eliotf.bsky.social @rodm.bsky.social

FF Studio - Why public sector grantmaking needs better tools

FF Studio - Don’t take grants for granted: why public sector funding needs better tools

ff.studio

we've written up some work exploring what grants might look like if power between grantseeker:grantmaker got slightly reshuffled, and if the technology UK gov used to give out £46bn of grants was an enabler rather than a constraint. grab a brew, enjoy www.ff.studio/projects/gra...

FF Studio - Why public sector grantmaking needs better tools

FF Studio - Don’t take grants for granted: why public sector funding needs better tools

ff.studio

last working day to top up ISAs and SIPPs this tax year, and several bonuses available for top ups and transfers

Anna Goss@annagoss.co · last yr.

last working day of the tax year! if you've got some money sitting around not in an ISA (or a SIPP, always be pensioning), it might be a good day to move it into one. some platforms will even give you a cashmoney incentive to do so. we have researched which ones here. 2025.checksies.com

Enforcing standards, better coordination and some market shaping can break vendor lock-in and improve local gov case management (social care, fostering etc) - a hard problem but necessary

Eliot Fineberg@eliotf.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi everyone, I wrote about the state of case management software in social care and local authorities. In short; it is a hard nut to crack and one that can be cracked with commitment, coordination and central goverment involvement. words.ff.studio/localgov-soc...

Change is hard. But possible.

Will Myddelton@myddelton.bsky.social · last yr.

✅ Web traffic nearly doubled to the page ✅ Record applications for a two week period ✅ Record success rate for assessing those applications ✅ Fewer calls to our investment support helpline Rarely have I been so proud (Of course it could yet be a statistical anomaly)

decided to share my essay on The Fugitive since St. Patrick's Day aka Dr. Richard Kimble Day is nigh www.patreon.com/posts/fugiti...

There's a deadline coming up for state pension top ups: 5th April 2025 buttondown.com/checksies/ar... - @annagoss.co and i wrote about the deadlines to fill national insurance gaps that are older than 6 years. Could be useful for freelancers.

✅ You've got a month to check your state pension

✅ Checksies Money things to read, money things to do. 7 March 2025 Hi, long time. This is Checksies. You signed up for it ages ago to get occasional money...

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Yes, wind farms sometimes make less energy during big storms www.holdfastprojects.com/feather_curt... (and even so we should still decarbonise our energy)

Yes, wind farms sometimes make less energy during big storms - Rod McLaren: Words that work

27 January 2025 More wind means more energy, except when the wind farm equipment must be protected or the grid balanced. Generators manage turbines

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Weird, that $500bn stargate ai infra project www.theverge.com/2025/1/21/24... is being built in a town that lent its name to a collective fallacy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene...

OpenAI and Softbank are starting a $500 billion AI data center company

Nvidia, Microsoft, and Arm are among the technology partners.

theverge.com

"all simian strolls in parker jackets" - good line

I thought about that a lot@allconsuming.bsky.social · 2y ago

In 2024, I thought a lot about my first love www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2024/my-firs...

great piece by @abscond.org on making Co-op membership matter more. In the same 2017ish era my take was: detach membership from Co-op-customer transactions and federate it www.holdfastprojects.com/radical-co-o...

James Darling@abscond.org · 2y ago

7 years ago I was asked by The Co-op to reimagine co-operative membership for the internet age. I think I had some nice ideas. I've published them in a blog post. abscond.org/2024/11/26/a...

Nick Sprinz's latest newsletter is about designing optimistic infrastructure mailchi.mp/ustwo/optimi... - featuring brilliant ideas from @debcha.bsky.social @sarahtgold.bsky.social tgold.bsky.social @soniaturcotte.bsky.social @rangetherapy.bsky.social @amymcnichol.bsky.social

Great writeup of a fund for Sport England by great designer-researcher @soniaturcotte.bsky.social - it was a privilege to work with such a good team and I learned a lot

3 reasons to start by rewriting the words www.holdfastprojects.com/start-with-w... , feat @tomski.com @benunsworth.bsky.social @escmum.bsky.social

You can now pre-order the I Thought About That A Lot book! ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/shop It includes 23 essays that we’ve published on ithoughtaboutthatalot.com between 2020 and 2023. As well as 3 that will be part of this year's advent calendar.

Shop – I thought about that a lot

A new anonymous essay published every day in December in the countdown to Christmas.

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Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now. Pheasant plucker Dresser royal opera house London’s worst ship broker

Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️@sarahtgold.bsky.social · 2y ago

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now. Tesco dot com picker Shoe shop assistant Art supply teacher Jewellery maker Architect

A quick way freelancers can guestimate their carbon emissions - www.holdfastprojects.com/freelancer-e...