I'm really rooting for this 👉 TechFreedom, a short course for social purpose orgs who want to understand their tech risks and DO SOMETHING about it.
Importantly you leave with a plan for reducing your dependency on US Big Tech 🙌🙌🙌 techfreedom.eu
via @dougbelshaw.com @tomcw.xyz #digitalsovereignty
Hitting my weeknote midlife crisis age…Opening sign ups to TechFreedom, building a browser extension (and MCP) for my memory, falling behind on a project, finishing the week on a high note, and lots of interesting things, including a blog about seeing an otter in saltaire.
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Have you heard me banging on about tech sovereignty, adaptability, big tech and resiliency? About how your tech is an organisational cultural choice? If not, how? If you have...well, would you like some more?
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#TechFreedom is a small‑cohort programme I am running with @tomcw.xyz to help co‑ops, charities, unions, and public‑interest orgs map their tech stack and cut risky dependencies on Big Tech.
Details and pilot cohort info: blog.dougbelshaw.com/techfreedom-...
#TechFreedom #Coops #DigitalSovereignty
Some dude called Brad has clearly been putting phone number into websites over a number of years.
First it was cars
Then it was gambling
Now it's the money advice service.
I'm slightly annoyed but also a bit worried for brad here
Picture of a rock...is that a fossil?
More rocks split open
View over the bay. Lovely for a dip!
Half term, fossil hunting and February wild swimming
The disconnect between 'openclaw/agent driven organisations yeah!' and the needing permission for a paper clip/command and control/nom reality of most organisations is funny and scary.
As a parent, do you ever think "I wonder what I would be doing with all that free time I used to have?"
Just saw one of my friends was having a go driving a bobsleigh and now I know.
This is pretty wild read — “Trust is Being Manufactured Faster than It’s Earned”
socket.dev/blog/ai-agen...
Your regular reminder that most friction is choice
We're having to make too many delays repayments!
Ok, should we try to make sure people aren't delayed?
That seems hard. Let's just make the reclaim process harder.
Yeah.
A couple of years ago, LNER introduced one click and automatic 'delay repay'. It was good, it would automatically let you know you were entitled to compensation.
Obviously this was too good, as they've now reverted to burying this process behind many many clicks.
Breadnotes. I mean weeknotes
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Tech Freedom, saying no, starting a couple of new bits of work, learning about Ice Breaker One and Free Ice Cream, resilience in practice, redesigning my website.
Chiseled Jaw Guy, Knee Guy, Old Guy, Midnight guy, and The Path Finder are the first five in. #BM100
Stage of matilda
Love this show. Minch rules.
Best spectator sport of the year has just started. Keith and the random names of people lost in the brash for the first couple of loops.
Like, you could tell a reasonably ok engineer what to automate and they could do it.
But, you still have to describe the thing, which is where it almost certainly falls down.
And the engineer might quite rightly point out this is a bad idea.
We've had the ability to automate things for years.
The ability to understand how jobs actually work, not automate things that shouldn't be, and not automate things badly still seems beyond us, and AI isn't fixing that I'm afraid.
It's a sourdough boule
Sourdough Saturday
That @tomcw.xyz and I have created #TechFreedom for organisations that want to understand where their data really lives, how reliant they are on single platforms, and how much their tools watch them.
Post: blog.dougbelshaw.com/techfreedom/
Site: techfreedom.eu
#TechFreedom #DigitalSovereignty
😂...like using Microsoft products?
If you ever wanted to share this in anything you do I would see it as my opus!
Currently at 7 hrs travelling by train.
By my calculations I could have gone from Durham to Paris and had time for a beer by now.
Unfortunately I've managed to make it 186 miles and am still not home. C'est la vie
Can only be our best selves if we are our real selves right 😀
The fuck it matrix. Stakes involved Vs energy available.
Spent two days facilitating, showed several matrix (of course). But if we are being real, this might be the real 2x2 matrix
What's the first rule of fight club?
🙋🏼 Buy a domain name?
No...but now you mention it
End film
Holy sh*t 😂
bsky.app/profile/kole...
Someone somewhere will say "this figure is misleading, it didn't actually cost that" and people will nod and say of course not ...
But it will still just be links
Sponsored links
And the cost will likely be higher
