Australian food security pulse check survey - understanding food insecurity in Australia Australia has experienced chronic and rising food insecurity since the early 1990s, when the first Foodbank opened in NSW. sustain.org.au/australian-f... #foodsystems #foodsecurity #auspol #inequality

Who put the sign in their hands @leogaggl.bsky.social? Gee, it's such a mystery 🙄 #atlasnetwork #ginarinehart #murdoch

"Who put the sign in your hand, and what do they get from your protest?" Real anger in regional Australia about wind farms. Dark money funding the obstruction. Australia's donation laws keep the two invisible. gaggl.com/blogs/2026-0... #DarkMoney #EnergyTransition #ClimateObstruction #Auspol

You paid $250 for a thermostat. Three years later, the company was acquired. The device still worked. The servers it depended on didn't. This is not bad luck. This is the business model. sein.com.au/articles/you... #Selfhosted #HomeAssistant #LocalFirst #Privacy #OpenSource #SmartHome #IndieWeb

"Nobody forced farmers." True. Same way nobody forced anyone to sign a subprime mortgage in 2006. The contract was signed freely. The system that made the alternative impossible was built deliberately. The treadmill has a name. Follow-up: gaggl.com/blogs/2026-0... #AgTech #FarmDebt #Tech4Good

Nobody would call me anti-tech. But AgTech celebrating the "Monsanto playbook" as a model to replicate got under my nose badly enough to write about Tech4Good vs. Tech4Extraction. gaggl.com/blogs/2026-0... #AgTech #RegenerativeAg #Tech4Good #FoodSovereignty #RentSeeking #FoodSystems #SlowFood

2018: software fails → engineers wait for Lockheed Martin patch. Scale to AUKUS subs + $9.9B “sovereign capability” reads like vendor TOS. Estonia: open standards, no lock-in. Demand the keys. gaggl.com/blogs/2026-0... #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #Procurement #transparency #AUKUS #auspol

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After three decades watching "inevitable progress" flatten communities, I have a name for relentless, performative positivity: the Opti-Moron. Critical thought is not negativity. gaggl.com/blogs/2026-0... #TechCulture #CriticalThinking #ToxicOptimism

Houston's 26-lane freeway is still gridlocked at peak hour. OpenAI is spending $500B on data centres. More compute creates more demand. Local open-weights models already run on a laptop. gaggl.com/blogs/2026-0... #AI #DigitalCommons #LocalAI #OpenSource #DigitalLiteracy #AIGovernance

I ran a local LLM. No account, no API key, no data leaving the machine. Then I noticed it thought about food systems from San Francisco, circa 2022. Sovereign compute. Colonised conclusions. gaggl.com/blogs/2026-0... #AI #OpenSource #DigitalLiteracy #Transparency #DigitalCommons #AIGovernance