[FBT] on Dawdling and Doodling
Maybe I’m solidaric When the pandemic started gathering attention in the Lombardy region of Italy, I was supposed to be going there. My roller derby… Read More »[FBT] on Dawdling and Doodling
Laura Hilliger
Laura Hilliger is a writer, educator and technologist. She’s a multimedia designer and developer, a technical liaison, a project manager, a conceptual architect, an open advocate who is happiest in collaborative environments. In 2020, she was awarded the Women in IT Digital Leader of the Year award for her work bringing open principles to Greenpeace. She’s a co-founder of We Are Open Co-op, a collective that has spent 10 years helping organisations like Amnesty International UK, MIT, Friends of the Earth and the BBC with thoughtful technology, community and learning projects. She is also an Ambassador for the Open Org Project, and a Mozilla alum. Find her on Mastodon as @epilepticrabbit (https://social.coop/@epilepticrabbit)
[FBT] on Complacency and Conferences
Maybe I’m successful My brain told itself that I was basically going to keep puttering along with nothing much to think about or say for… Read More »[FBT] on Complacency and Conferences
[FBT] on Care and Chaos
Maybe I’m careful My mom (hi mom!) learned a new word from a friend and texted me the Wikipedia page for Kakistocracy: “a government run… Read More »[FBT] on Care and Chaos
[FBT] on Softness and Screwed
Maybe I’m soft Good god almighty the Tech Bros, amirite!? I mean, we all knew they were supremely full of shit, but sometimes they at… Read More »[FBT] on Softness and Screwed
[FBT] on Anniversaries and Art
Maybe I’m ten 2025, eh? Here we are. I started writing this newsletter in 2015, so that’s a ten year anniversary. 2015 was the most… Read More »[FBT] on Anniversaries and Art
Podcasts I’m listening to in late 2024
Podcast chain letter For those of you who are unawares, Doug Belshaw and I have been working together for longer than your 8th grader has… Read More »Podcasts I’m listening to in late 2024
Activists, Campaigners and Advocates versus AI
Greening AI: A Roundtable Reflection cross-posted on the WAO blog Together with Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) or EWNI, we recently… Read More »Activists, Campaigners and Advocates versus AI
The Tao of WAO
Some things we’ve talked about in our cooperative cross-posted on the WAO blog I thought it might be a good idea to try to describe… Read More »The Tao of WAO
Cooperating through the use of AI
Some practical tips to use AI with your team cross-posted on the WAO blog The use of large language models (“LLMs”) such as ChatGPT can… Read More »Cooperating through the use of AI
We don’t have rum for you (sea shanty #2)
Went to dinner with the Corsican mafia and they were really niceA storm rolled in and we’re stuck in harbour not just once but thrice.… Read More »We don’t have rum for you (sea shanty #2)