The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

There were Trans Day of Action protests nationwide yesterday but you wouldn't know from the media.

Always a good show. Yesterday’s was very good.

Worries me that not enough people know about library streaming service @kanopy.com Free to use with a library card & their film selection is getting better & better. Recent additions are a swathe of German, Russian & European film generally. A bright spot in a world of cultural enshitification.

GO WOKE, GO BR... oh, er...never mind. www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...

An hour or so before a booked out Kooyong Candidates Forum at Hawthorn Town Hall, Amelia Hamer pulls out. Tonight, hundreds of Kooyong voters will see an empty chair - just like they did with Frydenberg. And her reason? Have a look. 👇

‘And how did capitalism respond to the climate crisis?’

Nasa/Boeing’s Butch and Suni set out on an 8-day tour. Now up there for 7 months. The tech started getting rough and their tiny ship was tossed… Idea for tv show: Lost in Space meets Gilligan’s Island meets Gravity.

Good grief. “The [Victorian state] government plans to introduce a "social cohesion pledge" for multicultural organisations, that must be observed in order to access government grants.”

Quite possibly designed to cause terror. As opposed to setting fire to a Muslim-owned burger joint and admitting it was Gaza related? Remember, News Ltd called the Burgurtory perpetrator a ‘firebug’.

This attack was a disgusting act of racism. Politicians need to stop using Jews to score political points - Dutton saying this has to do with Aus supporting international law at the UN; Jacinta Allen proposing unrelated protest bans (firebombing a synagogue is a crime not a protest)

Weird disconnect between the almost meaningless social-share headline and the (good) actual headline on this piece. Like a battle between those who want to tell us what the report actually says and those who want to turn it into a culture war www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

The AFL has always hated the public’s love of women’s footy. They were forced to introduce it ahead of schedule and forced to expand it.

Heroes and capes…

It took 2 years for this finding which shows that Bunnings interfered with the privacy of hundreds of thousands of customers across 62 of NSW and VIC stores, between November 2018 and November 2021. We need to properly resource the regulator so it doesn't take so long to get a finding!!

I’m celebrating an ALP loss to the COALition and Greens. What a world.

1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).