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Dr Kim Foale's personal archive. Writing and work on technology, sound, games, and social change.
Welcome to
Dr Kim Foale's personal archive. Writing and work on technology, sound, games, and social change.
Adding an MCP server to improve AI chatbot search in PlaceCal started a bigger conversation: who pays for a community-owned commons, and what do you trade to keep one alive? A real-world discussion on AI ethics.
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Geeks for Social Change is a collective once again, with a growing team of volunteers. Here's how you can get involved or support us in other ways.
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Blog, newsletter, docs, login, stats and more, on one server for about a tenner. Autistici/Inventati asked for a thousand servers. Here's one of them.
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Our entire organising lives are mediated by billionaires who hate us and fund our enemies. We deserve better. A write-up of my talk on... WAACLEX? (can we make that a thing?) at the Anarchist Studies Network conference.
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Kim spoke to Rachel Collinson, author of The Giving Code, about her work helping charities find the right donors, the boring admin which is necessary to effect social change, and her role in bringing down Wonga.
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Big tech is a modern day sun-empire that everything orients itself around: even the alternatives. How can we banish the golden geese, re-enchant our tech practice, and make all this stuff feel fun again?
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A community blog and infrastructure organisation building bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology.
How we helped The Wildlife Trusts to create a community web resource to make it easier to 'take action for nature'.
A full website migration and rebrand for the UK's largest trans charity, helping them support their users and administrate their workload more effectively.
I'm Kim Foale, a technologist, sound artist, and community organiser based in Manchester.
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