Dr Laura James's writings

Mandy Brown argues that the attention economy is misnamed (HT Sentiers).

EMF was great.

First, calendars.

This spring, we moved to Greater Liverpool.

Via Sentiers, Nicholas Carr on whether AI is the paperclip.

Doug Belshaw has a thoughtful post about the financial/work advice often being given to young folks today: The financial guidance given to young people today comes from people who experienced an entirely different economic reality.

Yes this: https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief/115696408257250551 Helen Toner on generative AI and where it might go, which is a rare article on foundational models and the real world.

There's been a lot of AI in the air, and that is reflected in this collection; at least the bits connecting with other worlds (etiquette, nature, craft and Enlightenment values) get a little outside the bubble.

Last week was the second Festival of Commoning.

Those American candy gift shops, that one usually assumes are some sort of money laundering scheme, are in fact multilevel tax dodges.

Taps microphone Is this thing on?

I love Tom Forth's response to the Aria call [X thread] "Request for Opportunities - as a spark of inspiration for new PD candidates, we pulled together a list of "why aren't more people working on this?!"

Earlier in September I was in Stroud, for the first Festival of Commoning.

In August I wrote that I was looking for work.

I’m looking for work.

The metaphors we use change how we think about things.

Thanks Luis Villa for this write up of the current Vizio case (GPL enforcement).

The wise Alex Deschamps-Sonsino organised a climate unconference to coincide with COP28.

It's always satisfying when projects you have been involved with demonstrate great results: https://twitter.com/ResearchEssex/status/1504867213840420870 Cofarm is in our third growing season, and starting to think about how best to grow - we're getting qu…

Clearing out old tabs...

I've spent most of the last two years as CTO at the OPEN.

The 2022 edition of the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor came out from the New Climate Institute.

(part 2 of this) On to crypto in various forms.

The thing about the Well's state of the world review in January each year is there's often a lot of good bits, and so sorting out a modest number of key things I want to remember is tricky.

The highway in BC which was comprehensively destroyed in the dreadful floods in mid November actually re-opened in December, thanks to astonishing engineering work.