Maria Farrell

Thank you both! 😍

Building trust in the open How Protocols for Publishers points to the future of journalism – and the web

Earlier this month I had the privilege of MCing the @protocolsforpublishers.com event in London, bringing together people from publishers and the open protocols that might help them secure their futures. I wrote up my experiences: werd.io/building-tru...

I gave up twitter years ago!

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the EU turn away from US infrastructure is on.

now that's a plan.

Colour photo of two dogs. In the foreground is the partial image of a black and white smooth haired border collie, Chip, looking beseechingly upward. Behind him Milo the white fluffy samoyed dog sits on a dirty, straw-coloured rug and looks at the camera, delighted with the garden mud all over his smiling snout.

I'm giving up bsky for Lent. bloody hell. worst thing since ditching chocolate for 40 days as a schoolgirl.

Hopefully these mucky pups will enjoy fewer requests to Stop Right Now So I Can Photo You

Horrifying to think it'll be just me and my thoughts for the duration. and books, I suppose. fuck.

Art doing its beautiful job

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A promotion for the book The Hard Way by Susannah Walker from Waterstones, offering 25% off with the pre-order code FEB26. Online only.

So The Hard Way is out in paperback in April, for anyone who is interested in women and walking and nature - and some unsung heroines, but also hillforts, old roads and much else besides.
Even better, you can get it at a 25% discount from Waterstones this week, so go on, you know you want to.

Fantastic news. 👏

SUCH a good girl.

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ugh

he's a very good boy!

Photo of a white fluffy samoyed dog, Milo, lying on grass by a public playing field with a towerblock in the background. He is holding a small stick virtically between his front paws, has just taken a bite from it and is chewing happily as wood flakes drop onto his paws. He looks very pleased with himself.

well, Monday and all that, but in happier news Milo found his platonically ideal Stick in the park this weekend and chewed it to a tiny stub.

Among the reasons I’m burned out and inimical to tech now is in my last job I watched social media companies fund meaningful outside research into halting the use of their platforms by terrorists and violent extremists at a platform design level and then ignore it all or do the exact opposite.

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'Hearing someone (Carney) so clearly name the truth was cathartic, and I could draw so many parallels with how this collective story can inform our personal relationships to AI, Big Tech, and impulses of surveillance capitalism towards an all-pervasive, AI Big Brother.'

that bit in episode 2 Small Prophets where the oil stain on the cul de sac turns out to be the shape of a rabbit, the song Bright Eyes swells, and I thought oh my God this is the very estate they built on what had been Watership Down

Lovely lovely girl. ❤️

thank you!

Truly a good guy. ❤️

Loads more #GetKeshed posts today, with thanks to all of you for supporting it. Wonder who's gonna be brave and be the first person to say they found it funny......? There's a lot of humour in there.....😱

Makes sense that the same people who tone-police those who call what we're living through by its actual name - and think themselves sophisticates and realists for so doing - are "reassured" by the mere <tone> of a speech that advertises its ill intent toward our multicultural European democracy.

yikes!

+1 After VDL's last big SOTEU speech in September on breaking dependence all that followed was a bonfire of the very regulations that held US Big Tech in check.

She talks a big game, but there's so little follow through. Then again, what probably feels radical to the EPP hive mind is very tame.

RTFT @fgenovese.bsky.social on TBI "climate realist" report saying UK must ditch clean energy for cheap energy, i.e. re-embrace fossil fuels

Feels like every time an unmotivated subject expert analyses the outputs of that haunted 'think tank', aka policy launderer, its work turns out to be garbage.

I've also just watched the first one and really liked it. was a bit 😳 when, as he walked out his front door I thought 'LOVELY garden', and very next thing was the neighbour saying he'd complained to the council about it

my flavour of nerd is the neighbour's garden is a flood trap dead zone.

Fascinating article, thank you! for not just the hope from species resilience, but also unexpected downsides (smaller fish), state power and human cost. The closing quote was powerful.

Yangtze river was also site of a key study on shifting baselines. Now all the fishermen are gone, too.

oh they are gorgeous! and ever optimistic. gotta love that.

I've never met any of the people involved IRL but when I saw the 'wife of the fellow host' is a very active terf I made certain assumptions.