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Bloggers’ Ink
Well now, it all started with this Twitter conversation. There’s something about creating a sticker that forces you to boil down what it is you’re saying, as well as picturing it on someone else’s laptop hood. But this sticker is REMIXABLE, courtesy of the fabulous Remixer Machine. So blogger, go make your monster…
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Religion-less Christianity
I had this moment of clarity whilst out running this morning, and I think Paul (the guy that wrote a bunch of letters in the Christian bible) would back me up on this one. Maybe Marie Kondo would too…
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Thoughtful, committed citizens
“We’re too young to have a vote, so the government doesn’t care about us. We’re too young to buy loads of stuff, so the companies don’t care about us. But we’re the ones that are going to have to deal with Climate Change.” To all those who struck school to protest the lack of action…
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Imperial Nostalgia
Boris Johnson: ‘People around the world are going ‘wow – they’ve made this incredible decision to go global”. John Simpson: ‘This is certainly not my experience. From US to China to India to South Africa, people I’m hearing from think we’re opting for imperial nostalgia.’
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Fresh Hope
I belong to a community church – and last weekend we gathered up our families and spent a retreat in a woodland adventure centre outside London. There was fresh hope, so I took some. It tasted good.
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My First Ten Parkruns
Emojis can articulate anything. This is the cycle that got me hooked on running, thanks to my son and of course Parkrun (the weekly timed, volunteer-driven 5km run/jog/walk.) Taken from this edition of the Visual Thinkery newsletter.
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First Principles
Nothing’s ever fair, is it? If you’d like to wilfully lose 13 minutes of your busy life, you could watch this video on what makes a fair dice. What are the chances that you make it all the way to the end? Less than 1 in 6, I’d say…
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Demonising the binaries
When I was growing up, eggs were good for you. Then they weren’t. Then they were good again. Then just the egg white was good. Binaries are so often unhelpful – especially when they are just a shortcut for not having to use your own brain. This is also the case in environmental activism, as…
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Privacy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Business behaviour around use and exploitation of people’s data, is dictated by the local privacy law (or lack thereof). Julie Owono was speaking at Mozfest on research into sub-saharan subsidiaries of European telecoms companies. It’s no surprise really – capitalism is about capital, so everything is a possible resource waiting to be exploited.
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Data in Oppressive Regimes
At Mozfest, I participated in a discussion on the use (monitoring / controlling / blocking) of data in oppressive regimes. Hearing the issues first hand from those who live there was horrifying. I realised how much I was completely unaware of. One clear call was the need for financially supporting homegrown communication platforms, as opposed…
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Equity Unbound
It was great to be back at Mozfest this weekend. And whaddayaknow, I got the chance to catch the #unboundeq (equity unbound) team explain what their project is all about. I’d seen the hashtag floating around on Twitter – but when engaging with a think, it’s dialogue that gets me going – and listening. So I…
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Penguin Against Plastic
Penguin Against Plastic says: Give plastic the flipper!
Er… hello?
This is a blog of openly licensed thinkery. They are doodles, thoughts and ideas of Bryan Mathers – little curious tidbits which have emerged from juicy conversations. Also, this is a dumping ground for abandoned artwork. But one man’s dump is another’s treasure trove – amirite?
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