• Listened: How to talk about avoiding waste, with Keep Britain Tidy
    • Most people think recycling is all you need to do to prevent waste.
    • Reframe the message and move people’s consciousness up the waste hierarchy.
    • Buy Nothing New Month.
    • Really interesting discussion around societal norms and reuse (e.g. what happens when you give second-hand presents at kids’ birthday parties…)
  • ListenedBrian Merchant, “Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech”
  • Spam.
    • Our website is experiencing an uptick in spam over the last few days.
    • Incredibly irritating.
    • With comments like 1*if(now()=sysdate(),sleep(15),0).
    • We have Akismet and a honepot enabled. Adding a very noddy manual captcha (e.g. 4+8 = ?) helps. But if it continues, we’ll probably have to enable ReCaptcha. Which I’d prefer to avoid if possible.
    • Seemingly emanating from the same IP address.
    • The host lists an abuse@ address. But when I contact that address, the mailbox is reported as being full
  • Listened: What if we became better Protopians?
    • Good discussion, but it seemed more utopian than protopian.
    • Lots of nice things listed for how the future could be. But, not much discussion on how to get there. Even in protopian increments.