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Doug Belshaw

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"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus)

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Founding member of @weareopencoop@mastodon.social, author/editor of @thoughtshrapnel, and blogger at @openthinkering

Previously: @mozilla@mozilla.social / @moodle@openedtech.social / consultant / researcher / teacher

🟡 Some capacity for new projects

#OpenBadges #OpenRecognition #VerifiableCredentials #DigitalLiteracies #ProductiveAmbiguity #SystemsThinking

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Doug Belshaw
@dajb@social.coop

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) 🇪🇺☠️✊ Founding member of @ weareopencoop , author/editor of @ thoughtshrapnel , and blogger at @ openthinkering Previously: @ mozilla / @ moodle / consultant / researcher / teacher 🟡 Some capacity for new projects # OpenBadges # OpenRecognition # VerifiableCredentials # DigitalLiteracies # ProductiveAmbiguity # SystemsThinking

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Doug Belshaw
Doug Belshaw
@dajb@social.coop

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) 🇪🇺☠️✊ Founding member of @ weareopencoop , author/editor of @ thoughtshrapnel , and blogger at @ openthinkering Previously: @ mozilla / @ moodle / consultant / researcher / teacher 🟡 Some capacity for new projects # OpenBadges # OpenRecognition # VerifiableCredentials # DigitalLiteracies # ProductiveAmbiguity # SystemsThinking

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@dajb@social.coop · 2d ago

In a recent weeknote, I quoted the spoken word start of 'Champion Sound: Side 3 Book of Hours' by Faithless:

“Um, you know, I think it would be nice to make something that I just think is absolutely brilliant, and I find it very hard to think anything I do is absolutely brilliant.”

Some things are objectively "brilliant" and other things subjectively so.

I'm pleased that people have reacted positively to TaskDial, and I've added features and tweaks based on early feedback.

But, you know what, I *already* think it's "brilliant" because it solves a problem I had, and in a delightful way that makes me smile every time I use it.

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Doug Belshaw
@dajb@social.coop

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) 🇪🇺☠️✊ Founding member of @ weareopencoop , author/editor of @ thoughtshrapnel , and blogger at @ openthinkering Previously: @ mozilla / @ moodle / consultant / researcher / teacher 🟡 Some capacity for new projects # OpenBadges # OpenRecognition # VerifiableCredentials # DigitalLiteracies # ProductiveAmbiguity # SystemsThinking

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Doug Belshaw
Doug Belshaw
@dajb@social.coop

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) 🇪🇺☠️✊ Founding member of @ weareopencoop , author/editor of @ thoughtshrapnel , and blogger at @ openthinkering Previously: @ mozilla / @ moodle / consultant / researcher / teacher 🟡 Some capacity for new projects # OpenBadges # OpenRecognition # VerifiableCredentials # DigitalLiteracies # ProductiveAmbiguity # SystemsThinking

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@dajb@social.coop · 5d ago

Fucking hell 🫨

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/

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Doug Belshaw
@dajb@social.coop

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) 🇪🇺☠️✊ Founding member of @ weareopencoop , author/editor of @ thoughtshrapnel , and blogger at @ openthinkering Previously: @ mozilla / @ moodle / consultant / researcher / teacher 🟡 Some capacity for new projects # OpenBadges # OpenRecognition # VerifiableCredentials # DigitalLiteracies # ProductiveAmbiguity # SystemsThinking

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Doug Belshaw
Doug Belshaw
@dajb@social.coop

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) 🇪🇺☠️✊ Founding member of @ weareopencoop , author/editor of @ thoughtshrapnel , and blogger at @ openthinkering Previously: @ mozilla / @ moodle / consultant / researcher / teacher 🟡 Some capacity for new projects # OpenBadges # OpenRecognition # VerifiableCredentials # DigitalLiteracies # ProductiveAmbiguity # SystemsThinking

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@dajb@social.coop · Feb 24, 2026

👋 Waving from #BrexitBritain during #ClimateBreakdown

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3gqr7p0lqo

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Doug Belshaw
@dajb@social.coop

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) 🇪🇺☠️✊ Founding member of @ weareopencoop , author/editor of @ thoughtshrapnel , and blogger at @ openthinkering Previously: @ mozilla / @ moodle / consultant / researcher / teacher 🟡 Some capacity for new projects # OpenBadges # OpenRecognition # VerifiableCredentials # DigitalLiteracies # ProductiveAmbiguity # SystemsThinking

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Doug Belshaw
Doug Belshaw
@dajb@social.coop

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) 🇪🇺☠️✊ Founding member of @ weareopencoop , author/editor of @ thoughtshrapnel , and blogger at @ openthinkering Previously: @ mozilla / @ moodle / consultant / researcher / teacher 🟡 Some capacity for new projects # OpenBadges # OpenRecognition # VerifiableCredentials # DigitalLiteracies # ProductiveAmbiguity # SystemsThinking

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@dajb@social.coop · Feb 19, 2026

RE: @danmcquillan@kolektiva.social

TL;DR: AI keeps getting massive investment despite not working as promised. This is because AI isn't really a technology solution, but instead a way for existing power structures to maintain control as the old world order falls apart. It makes the problems it claims to solve *worse* rather than better.

The alternative is "decomputing": less tech, instead of more; slower, not faster; tools built around collective care rather than automation.

Instead of asking how to power bigger data centres, we should ask who should control society's energy and water in the first place.

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Doug Belshaw
@dajb@social.coop

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) 🇪🇺☠️✊ Founding member of @ weareopencoop , author/editor of @ thoughtshrapnel , and blogger at @ openthinkering Previously: @ mozilla / @ moodle / consultant / researcher / teacher 🟡 Some capacity for new projects # OpenBadges # OpenRecognition # VerifiableCredentials # DigitalLiteracies # ProductiveAmbiguity # SystemsThinking

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Doug Belshaw
Doug Belshaw
@dajb@social.coop

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus) 🇪🇺☠️✊ Founding member of @ weareopencoop , author/editor of @ thoughtshrapnel , and blogger at @ openthinkering Previously: @ mozilla / @ moodle / consultant / researcher / teacher 🟡 Some capacity for new projects # OpenBadges # OpenRecognition # VerifiableCredentials # DigitalLiteracies # ProductiveAmbiguity # SystemsThinking

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@dajb@social.coop · Feb 19, 2026

I mean, yeah, Guernica is impressive and massively important. And so is the Dali stuff.

But I really enjoy the more explicitly anti-fascist art/propaganda.

📍Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

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