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There are hundreds and hundreds of blog posts on this site. In the early days of the web I wrote with more variety and much more regularly. Nowadays many of my posts are about client projects and current “professional” endeavors. My newsletter is a good place for the rest of my writing.
- [FBT] on Snogwogglers and Snark
Maybe I’m snogwoggler I have a big list of cool ideas that I’ll probably never get around to. One of them is to start a podcast called “Everything is Derogatory”. I’d get a co-host and we would pontificate about all the stuff we shouldn’t say and pick apart why everything… Read More »[FBT] on Snogwogglers and Snark - [FBT] on Trees and Toucans
Maybe I’m a tree The sour cherry is a dwarf compared to the Parrotia persica it’s standing next too. They are buried , temporarily, in sand from the construction site. The winter cherry two doors down is losing it’s blooms but it will bloom again, or so they say, sometime… Read More »[FBT] on Trees and Toucans - Hacking for Future: Wie können ihr eure Fähigkeiten für das Gute nutzen?
Was ich eigentlich sagen wollte: Am Freitagabend dürfte ich für Jugend Hackt eine Rede halten. Ich weiß nicht genau was ich gesagt habe, aber das ist was ich sagen wollte. Slides sind hier. [PROFILE SLIDE] Hallo! Meine Name ist Laura Hilliger und ich arbeite im Internet. Falls ihr wissen wollen,… Read More »Hacking for Future: Wie können ihr eure Fähigkeiten für das Gute nutzen? - Strengthening Community
Building Bridges for Human Rights with Amnesty International UK crossposted on the WAO blog Let’s be honest. The world feels…complicated right now. The news is relentless, anxieties are high, and it’s easy to feel isolated. But be assured, there are people, even now, who get up every day and try… Read More »Strengthening Community - [FBT] on Contracts and ComplianceMaybe I’m kicking off I spent entirely too much time this week pretending to be a lawyer. I read and edited contracts and data processing policies, I reformulated legalese and created payment milestones and statements of work. I stressed out about the templates people and organisations use and suggested changes.… Read More »[FBT] on Contracts and Compliance
- [FBT] on Salves and ShortcutsMaybe I’m local On Thursdays, I try to remember to go to the Thursday market that materialises every week just a couple of blocks away. Have I already told you about the Thursday market There’s an egg lady and a vegetable guy and there’s a man selling fish. There is… Read More »[FBT] on Salves and Shortcuts
- [FBT] on Watching and WaitingMaybe I’m watching Looks like all we need to do to save the world is get our narrative in order. We need a unified message. Corruption as a central point will help. So I guess the message is “Those guys are corrupt af.” Ok, now that we’ve taken care of… Read More »[FBT] on Watching and Waiting
- [FBT] on Acorns and AuthorshipMaybe I’m burying The ice is melting, so we’re finding junk from other civilisations. I call it junk because I live in a 350 year old farmhouse. Whenever I dig around in the garden, I find some junk. I found an old shoe once, circa early 1900s. And a smashed… Read More »[FBT] on Acorns and Authorship
- How to be an Activist in a World of AIcrossposted on the WAO blog In our final post in the AI and Activism series, we look to help you live your values as you explore new AI tools and services. Be sure and read the other three posts in this series to understand the narratives, complexities and principles that… Read More »How to be an Activist in a World of AI
- [FBT] on Resistance and RevisionMaybe I’m posting Lately, in every newsletter I read, people are talking about the onslaught of our sanity. It’s a tactic, folks have pointed out, clearly outlined during Orange Administration Numero Uno. They told us all they were going to implement their weird and darkly terrifying policy junk. Everything is… Read More »[FBT] on Resistance and Revision
- Starting principles for the ethical use of AIcrossposted on the WAO blog Part 3 of our series on AI and Activism looks at the seven principles we developed in collaboration with Friends of the Earth for climate justice and digital rights campaigners. Read or download the full report here. It further unpacks each principle and includes responsible… Read More »Starting principles for the ethical use of AI
- [FBT] on Nuance and NominalismMaybe I’m published It’s slow, still. Co-op members are kind of waiting around for things to start to move. Contracts to be signed. Emails to be returned. Spring to unfurl. Waiting. We are not great at waiting. I’m not great at waiting, although I am totally fine at waiting in… Read More »[FBT] on Nuance and Nominalism
- Systemic complexities with AICross-posted on the WAO blog This series is a brief look at the content within Harnessing AI for Environmental Justice, a report WAO developed for Friends of the Earth, funded by Mozilla. Read or download the full report here. Check out Part 1, Understanding Predominant Narratives in AI. In this… Read More »Systemic complexities with AI
- Understanding Predominant Narratives in AICross-posted on the WAO blog Over the past months, WAO has been working on a report called Harnessing AI for Environmental Justice for Friends of the Earth. Funded by Mozilla, the report is a deep dive into the landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and what Big Tech’s newest hype means… Read More »Understanding Predominant Narratives in AI
- [FBT] on Dawdling and DoodlingMaybe 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 league was supposed to play a tournament that weekend. About 25 of us were going to head down there, travel was booked. The news that… Read More »[FBT] on Dawdling and Doodling
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