wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

I have a feature request. I think we should all be given one veto per day and we get to exercise that veto by deleting a single post of someone else's of our choosing.

Your super hardcore technical advice is great and if people can't use it, it's not useful. You have to meet people where they are on the ground

been thinking a lot about wikipedia recently. partly cos i am v slowly working on a short video about it i'll maybe bump up for it's birthday lol, but also just as part of the flawed fabric of the internet. wikipedia25.org/en/ 1/4

We only need to get 113 followers to get to 2000. Can we do that before #SotB26? 2026.stateofthebrowser.com

And FWIW these programs have been in place since 2021. While the WMF just announced new participants, I’m not sure why some of these articles suggest that the program is new, or that this signals that the WMF is “embracing AI”

These programs help to offset what I’ve previously described as a vampiric relationship between AI companies and the commons: www.citationneeded.news/free-and-ope...

With “Wikimedia Enterprise”, AI companies have to use (and pay for) dedicated APIs to scrape data, which helps to limit the strain on Wikimedia servers. (See eg arstechnica.com/information-...) This is a good thing for Wikimedia and for its readers.

Neither is true. The first isn’t even really possible without community buy-in, and so far the English Wikipedia community has been extremely resistant to AI or AI-assisted editing. As for the latter, all Wikimedia content has always been free, and was already widely used for AI training.

I think people are erroneously interpreting the headline to mean that the Wikimedia Foundation is embracing AI for purposes like generating encyclopedia content, or are providing AI companies with more training data than they were already scraping.

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

For over a decade I have tied my shoes one specific way: Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot. I learned it from Ian (aka Professor Shoelace) whose site is over two decades old. The knot has never failed me. I spoke with Ian about knots and the dangers of the modern internet. aftermath.site/ians-shoelac...

You might want to check out Hussein Shikha - he's talked about the relationship between code and textiles. husseinshikha.com

partly testing out a crossposter rn, partly wonder if anyone currently at the intersection of art and tech have favourite artists who work with textiles? was very inspired by dorkbots bristol talk today from someone at air giants!

Because of time and how the syllabus is shaking out, I had to cut one of the absolute best short stories ever that's always on my AI syllabus so instead I'll just tell you all to read it: For a Breath I Tarry, by Roger Zelazny. It's basically perfect.

FFS, is nothing untainted lol? yeah yeah yeah, no ethical consumption under capitalism, but I forget sometimes how deep the dependency despair can go (trying it out as an opposite to "systemic sublime", I think still no? network nadir is too soft sounding)

Pains me to admit how much pleasure it gives me to click on the Wirecutter "best kitchen sponges" article and see that they're the kitchen sponges I already own and use in my kitchen

just posting cos 666 is too perfect a number of posts so I gotta break the seal

Every time I get the notification to renew the domain grimoire.computer I'm tickled by the little jokes

why have a load of people decided to stop thinking on purpose

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Right to repair is even harder for incarcerated people.

public domain day is both really cool in principle and very silly in practice. personally i have no stories to tell with long forgotten cartoon dog Snookum Snoker, once-popular mystery novel protagonist Racist Caricature Police Detective, or self-playing piano hit The Hopscotch Boogie

happy new year to all my extremely online friends

first few hours of 2026 that you can slide into my DMs!

I wish everyone happiness including myself because my god it's rough seeing us all in perpetual darkness and just being like "mood" and "same"

happy new year to all those currently in gmt and using the gregorian calendar

2025 WAS THE YEAR OF PEACE 2026 IS THE YEAR OF NOISE THERE WILL BE A LOT MORE NOISE

the point is that together we can find a way. the point is that. together.

you are here at the end of a year in which I'll bet you wondered what the point was, at some point

more creativity and fun next year for the sake of our souls, and not for monetization. that’s one of my big hopes for 2026

in 2026 i will keep making art and nobody can stop me

in: earnestness out: cynicism that keeps you at a distance from what and who you love

by being earnest there is an inherent courage. nothing worth having is possible without a sustained commitment to courage.

This is the objectively best, most heartfelt one of them all youtu.be/STnpL1COEyI?...

NYE parties were always Mountain Goats then this youtu.be/A59oNmjWDO4?...

If you're reading this you got through 2025. Good job!

last few hours of 2025 that you can slide into my DMs!

I’ll spin this as close to midnight as I can, as in years past. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSgH...

Let me offer you one of my fav concept albums. (That the band has deleted from most of internet)

I'm gonna try and listen to at least one new-to-me album a week in 2026! suggestions super welcomed. you can see what i already know on last fm or you can just punt albums at me, i probably haven't listened to it all the way through tbh www.last.fm/user/oluOnline

what's everyone's favourite new year themed song, lol?

2026 will be full of a variety of mosses to lay your hand against and go “oh yes that’s a good one” or “hm this one is not for me”

seeing out the old year, bringing in the new: olu.online/26-hopes-for...

it's christmas. let him

2025 recapped

Oh no, the billionaires are going to move away from (city)? What are they going to do without the taxes they aren't paying?

Any bloggers / internet publishers interested in bringing existing content onto atproto? If you'd find it valuable to add social web features, like comments / discovery / subscribe via atproto, to your site, lmk I'd love to hear from indie blog folks, but also larger sites or collectives!