2022
372 posts in 2022.
- 2022 in review
- #BelshawBlackOps22
- That was 2022
- Weeknote 49/2022
- Weeknote 48/2022
- 'Nightfall' meteorite contains new and unusual minerals
- No benefits to post-Brexit deregulation
- Study shows no link between age at getting first smartphone and mental health issues
- Four forces that constrain our actions
- French views of Brexit
- Who wants to live forever?
- Japanese miniature dioramas
- (Partially) visualising the Fediverse
- Collectively-owned Fediverse instances
- Prestige and associational value
- Weeknote 47/2022
- Defederation and governance processes
- No management but self-management
- Richard Hammond's near-death experience
- How to CW on the Fediverse
- Some tips for adding winter cheer
- Convivial social networking
- Weeknote 46/2022
- What does this button do? The perils of being the other side of a screen to an algorithm
- Weeknote 45/2022
- On the importance of Fediverse server rules
- Mourning what we've lost
- Second-order effects of widespread AI
- Hyperbolic discounting applied to habit-formation
- The (surprising) oldest full sentence in the Canaanite language in Israel
- Rituals for moving jobs when working from home
- Decentralisation begins at decentring yourself
- Organisations are not just joining the Fediverse, they're setting up their own instances
- Weeknote 44/2022
- The Fediverse is made up of cities, towns, and villages
- A cluttered desk is a sign of genius
- Sticks and stones (and disinformation)
- Weeknote 43/2022
- Decentralising online learning
- Presenteeism, overwork, and being your own boss
- Hyperfinancialisation has taken over UK politics
- An anarchist take on the Twitter acquisition
- Twitter the disaster clown car company
- It's time to move on from Twitter
- AI is coming for middle management
- Being 'quietly fired' at work
- Jacobin reviews the creator of Ethereum's new book
- What does work look like? (redux)
- Weeknote 42/2022
- Moving hosts for exercise.cafe
- Weeknote 41/2022
- Weeknotes 39/2022 & 40/2022
- Bridging the divide
- AI everywhere in education
- Apple Watch Ultra vs The Scottish Highlands
- Our range of legible emotions is being constricted
- Censorship and the porn tech stack
- Google Stadia as pandemic fever dream
- Brexit Britain = hungry kids
- Your brain rewires itself after age 40
- Gaming on the go (or anywhere)
- You don't have to be the best to be valuable
- Teaching kids about anonymity
- Sharing can be hard (online)
- Hierarchy is bad for business
- Weeknote 38/2022
- 'Even over' statements
- The unintended consequences of photography
- The 2022 Drone Photo Awards
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
- Weeknote 37/2022
- Forbes on federation
- A philosophical approach to performative language
- Technological Liturgies
- Organisational design: the floor is lava
- Three components of the public sphere
- What is ransom capitalism?
- Professional try-hards
- Every complex problem has a solution which is simple, direct, plausible — and wrong
- WFH from anywhere
- Registrations are now open at exercise.cafe!
- Weeknote 36/2022
- Paying it forward
- CDNs are not phone books
- Ad-free urban spaces
- Code of Conduct for exercise.cafe
- Migraines and TIAs
- Weeknote 35/2022
- The art of a cup of tea
- You should only ever be busy on purpose
- Against 'talkocracy'
- Cultivating (your) serendipity (surface)
- Life product tiers
- AI art is, well, still art
- Thinking about a Fediverse instance focused on fitness / exercise
- Learning through pathways
- Personal, portable heating solutions
- Potentially the cheapest way of generating clean energy?
- Weeknote 34/2022
- Population ethics
- Conversational affordances
- Lessin's five steps and the coming AI apocalypse
- Dealing with mental pain
- The UK is in crisis
- Development without critique
- Returning to social.coop
- Context collection, not context collapse
- Chronological social interaction
- Full Internet People
- Weeknote 33/2022
- Weeknote 32/2022
- Working from home
- Eddie Jones on how privately educated rugby players 'lack resolve'
- Mathematical models of evolution
- Ethical (open) source (licenses)
- Being busy isn't a badge of honour
- Weeknote 31/2022
- Meta may really be exiting Europe as soon as this year
- The importance of being yourself
- Generating a logo using an AI drawing model
- Bonfire's latest trick shows Google+ circles came a decade early
- Weeknote 30/2022
- Algorithmic Anxiety
- Naming heatwaves
- Doomed to live in a Sisyphean purgatory between insatiable desires and limited means
- You don't need a personal trainer
- Finish what you start
- Foregrounding externalities
- Weeknote 29/2022
- Slack emboldens the meek
- Discourses of Climate Delay
- On GitHub Achievements
- Teaching about dead white guys in an age of social media
- Some thoughts on programmatic Open Badge image creation using AI models
- Enjoy things while they last (or hope for the best, prepare for the worst)
- Social-first searching
- Chromebooks banned in Danish schools
- Productivity is the enemy of creativity
- Weeknote 28/2022
- Spring '83
- No more low-speed fart sounds for Teslas
- Unintended consequences of smart thermostats
- (Machine) Creativity
- Personal Publishing Principles
- The future is the least renewable resource
- Amazon as a dumb pipe
- Wanted: a simple 3-step Open Badges platform to generate claim codes and issue badges
- Some thoughts on 'home' pages for individuals within communities (and social networks)
- Weeknote 27/2022
- Ian Bogost on hybrid work
- Steaming open the institutional creases
- Life cannot be organised
- This bus ain't growing wings
- The Digital Dark Ages
- Criticism vs praise
- Is our society structured in a way which encourages people to make less than the greatest contribution they could?
- Weeknote 26/2022
- 5 domains I'm letting expire over the next year
- The future has been foreclosed and the present is intolerable
- Recalling generative and liberating uses of technology
- The corrosive nature of captalism
- Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields
- Crypto clowns
- Counting the cost of Brexit
- Making adulthood more desirable
- Weeknote 25/2022
- Bonfire beta
- Losing followers, making friends
- The omnishambles of Brexit
- Moonshine-enabling cow shoes
- GNOME <3
- Worker-owned co-op federation
- Psycho-Geography
- Abandoned places
- One sentence per line
- Travelling light
- Weeknote 24/2022
- The internet is broken because the internet is a business
- The ultimate act of self-denial
- Muting the American internet
- Morality, responsibility, and (online) information
- Living forever
- Who knew tapping a checkbox could be so satisfying?
- Subscriber count as power level against algorithmic demons
- Artificial metrics are flying by instrument
- Audrey Watters says goodbye to EdTech
- Getting out of a rut
- Yes, parenting matters
- EaaS : Employee as a Service
- Weeknote 23/2022
- 'Slack' and work
- Art gallery mode
- The new digital divide
- Optimising for feelings, ceding control to the individual
- Good ideas become colonised and domesticated
- Testing a 4-day work week
- Coffee and its impact on fitness
- Billable hours and the psychology of work
- Signalling that you're AFK in a world where you can never really be AFK
- The mesmerising murmurations of Europe’s starlings
- WIRED magazine predicts the 21st century... in 1997
- Updating our worldviews
- Developing your own style (and archive)
- Should governments track supermarket purchases?
- Weeknote 22/2022
- Distro-hopping like a cynic
- #AbolishTheMonarchy
- Epic UK walking trails
- Successfully combining home VDSL and 4G+ connections
- 5 reasons I won't be celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee
- Weeknote 21/2022
- The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist
- Videoconferencing may be a technology, but so is Sociocracy
- Weeknote 20/2022
- 10 steps to running an event I'd want to attend
- Weeknote 19/2022
- Documenting my attempts to replace VDSL home broadband with a 5GEE router
- Weeknote 18/2022
- A welcome corrective to narratives around the 'future of work'
- Space of possibilities
- Popular culture has become an endless parade of sequels
- Weeknote 17/2022
- The Climate Game
- 14 Common Features of Fascism
- Are we really calling it #Elongate?
- Dedicated portable digital media players and central listening devices
- Words and meaning are two different things
- Highlights from 'The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is'
- An illustrative conversation about productive ambiguity
- Weeknote 16/2022
- The economics of blockchain-based gaming don't add up
- Literally shitposting
- Assume that your devices are compromised
- What technology means in late capitalism
- Using DICE instead of RA(S)CI
- Unauditible algorithms are the enemy of social media users
- Weeknote 15/2022
- The value of a liberal education
- 'Live Forever' mode
- The rise of first-party online tracking
- It's time to accept that centralised social media won't change
- The triple-peak work day is a worrying trend
- My highlights from 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead'
- Mainstream social media is a behaviour-modification system
- Certain surroundings seem to dispel enchantment, and others encourage it
- Are we in a post-album era for music?
- Warren Ellis' work day routine
- Get off Twitter if you want to see your friends' posts
- Virtual Photographer Of The Year awards
- Weeknote 14/2022
- Hadrian's Wall Path in 72 hours
- Weeknote 13/2022
- Weeknote 12/2022
- The future of the web, according to Mozilla
- Historic aerial photos of England
- How to be a darknet drug lord
- British monarchs helped fund, and profited from, the slave trade
- Live map of electricity production highlights carbon criminals
- Do NFTs tend towards dystopia?
- Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians
- Cancel Technology
- Declining trust in society isn't just a 'vibe shift'
- Twitter autoblock is what you get when you have software with shareholders
- Antartica used to be covered in rainforest
- San Francisco is built on the carcasses of old ships
- Weeknote 11/2022
- Open Badges is now on the plateau of productivity
- Solarpunk and five climate futures
- If you believe it's over, maybe it will be
- Challenging capitalism through co-ops and community
- Some fairy tales may be 6,000 years old
- A weird tip for weight loss
- The week as an human construct
- Weeknote 10/2022
- Exploring the sweet spot for Zappa project approaches to misinformation
- The Un-Grammable Hang Zone
- A hardwired obedience to the capitalist system that we exist within
- What if I never change?
- Switching from Telegram to Signal
- AI-synthesized faces are here to fool you
- Lizard brain vs infinite scroll
- Weeknote 09/2022
- First version of report published sharing findings from Zappa project user research
- Xero starts using consent-based decision making
- What makes writing more readable?
- Audrey Watters on the technology of wellness and mis/disinformation
- Weeknote 08/2022
- Offline for 3 days
- Facebook is dying
- The hard part of the work is doing the work
- AI cannot hold copyright (yet)
- Technology and productivity
- Hacking the application process
- You cannot 'solve' online misinformation
- The life run by spreadsheet is not worth living
- The benefits of taking Wednesdays off
- Dark patterns and gambling
- Weeknote 07/2022
- Some interesting findings from user research for the Zappa project (so far!)
- Speeding up a Chromebook by allocating zram
- Stone Age culture in the Orkney islands
- Upgrading an iPod Video for use in 2022
- Digital to analogue and back again
- Chrome OS Flex
- OKRs as institutional memory
- Nesta's predictions for 2022
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator
- Weeknote 06/2022
- Sitting with ambiguity for innovation projects (or life in general!)
- Countering misinformation in federated social networks: an introduction to the Zappa project
- Blockchain and trusted third parties
- On hobbies
- Reducing offensive social media messages by intervening during content-creation
- Weeknote 05/2022
- The burnout epidemic
- Check your perspective
- Productivity dysmorphia
- Decentralising the description of skills with OSMT
- Twitter's decline into right-leaning hellsite
- Explaining ideas
- BBC Archives and the changing of history
- Private schools having charitable status is an absolute scam
- Your attention was stolen
- Weeknote 04/2022
- Boring crypto definitions
- Control and responsibility
- If web3 is the financialisation of the web, then ed3 is merely the (further) financialisation of education
- Spatial Finance
- Health surveillance
- NFTs, financialisation, and crypto grifters
- Tether and crypto price manipulation
- Co-ops and DAOs
- Hype levels
- Individualism and collectivism in decentralised networks
- Weeknote 03/2022
- Web3 and Ed3 are both problematic
- Is QWERTY a really bad keyboard layout?
- A low-tech solution for personal warmth
- Directions of travel
- Kids need life on the highest volume
- Paying for everything twice
- Ancient cynicism
- E2EE is for everyone
- The life-changing difference of an internet connection
- Abusing AI girlfriends
- So this is Covid
- Pix and digital payments in Brazil
- Nine planetary boundaries
- Optimism about the future
- Reflecting on #100DaysToOffload
- Reading is useless
- The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it
- Matching work activities to mind modes
- How to be useless
- Does Not Translate
- Your accusations are your confessions
- Weeknote 02/2022
- Web3, the metaverse, and the DRM-isation of everything
- America, fascism, and the first, second, and third 'solutions'
- Persistent Practices and Pragmatism
- Meetings and work theatre
- Vaccine Hesitancy as part of a Plague Anthology
- Let's Settle This
- Signal's CEO on 'web3'
- Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
- Laptops aren't what they used to be
- Weeknote 01/2022
- Experimenting with new tools to augment my information environment
- Somebody please tell the travel industry there's a climate emergency
- Covid immunity and medical breakthroughs
- Jam tomorrow
- Productive ambiguity and learning resource discovery