RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@floppies/115510122335927016 Please enjoy.

"The Vera Historia is not only the first detailed narrative about traveling through space to the moon in the Western tradition, it is also, arguably, the strangest." https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/lucians-trips-to-the-moon/ #scifi #space #moon

"What is genuinely new is the privatization of interpretation. ICE isn’t just collecting more data, it is outsourcing judgment to private contractors. Private analysts, aided by artificial intelligence, are likely to decide what online behavior signals danger and what doesn’t. That […]

"Some artists and albums will benchmark your utf8 support and annoy your operating system." https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases-to-consider-when-dealing-with-music.html #music #development #computers #edgecases

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115503016101266241 Congratulations to @Mastodon @MastodonEngineering on the 4.5 launch! Also nice to see an updated roadmap! https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap #mastodon #fediverse

✊ #solidarity #gif

2001 was obviously a tough year, but there were bright spots in internet innovation: Wikipedia launched in January 2001, Wayback Machine in October, and iTunes and iPod both came out that year. Not to mention bloggers redesigning in Movable Type and other increasingly cool blog tools. I hope you […]

For anyone celebrating/taking part in today's Media Liberation Day, I've created some (hopefully) useful resources over the years, if this is of any interest: - a non-technical intro to the fediverse through polls: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/a-netizens-guide-to-mastodon-fediverse/ - a […]

Today marks three years since I created my personal Mastodon server! #fediversary

Congratulations to the city of New York, which I've called home for nearly a decade, and to their new mayor, Zohran Mamdani! https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/04/nyregion/nyc-mayor-election?unlocked_article_code=1.y08.l-Qv.qxPca9TdZee8&smid=url-share #nyc #election #mamdani

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/115490945003829832 "As the Industrial Revolution began, workers naturally worried about being displaced by increasingly efficient machines. But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” [...] They confined their attacks to […]

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115248681369581437 Just a reminder of what's at stake today. #uspol #nj #newjersey #election #gotv

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115485868652596157 https://fediverse.stefanbohacek.com #fediverse #typography

#fediverse #typography

Good news, it's still trivially easy to accidentally block a domain on Mastodon! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/24853 #mastdon #oops #blockeddomain

This weekend, the International Space Station marks a quarter-century of continuous occupancy. "By NASA’s count, 290 people from 26 countries have visited the space station. Seven are up there right now, representing the U.S., Russia and Japan." […]

"Geocities [which launched in November 1994] has a fascinating history. A roaring beginning, a dramatic climax, the most tragic of endings, and just a sprinkle of hope right at the end." https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/an-ode-to-geocities/ #geocities #internet #theweb #internethistory #history

And that's a wrap! @looptober #looptober #looptober2025 #music

I put together a short write-up on my mostly successful attempt at taking part in both the #looptober and #weirdweboctober challenges at the same time this year. https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/weirdweblooptober/ @looptober #weirdweblooptober

"Nettime has been widely recognized for its seminal role stimulating and disseminating ideas about Netzkritik or Net Critique, net.art, and tactical media and pioneered practices such as "collaborative filtering"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime The internet mailing list Nettime was […]

"As a contribution to the discussion and debate that’s needed at all levels of the labor movement, Labor Notes is soliciting contributions from organizers and scholars on what unions can do besides hide or try to curry favor. " […]

There is a need for better moderation systems on the fediverse. But getting people to coordinate to build and adopt such systems is proving to be a challenge. https://connectedplaces.online/on-the-coordination-for-better-moderation-systems/

@wikidata And congratulations on this as well! "Earlier this year, in February, Wikipedia was recognized as a digital public good (DPG). Now, Wikidata follows in its footsteps – as the world’s largest open knowledge graph, used globally to build transparency, trust, and digital equity." […]

"The terrorist attacks of September 11 quickly turned blogging into a real-time forum for political analysis, conspiracy theories, emotion and outrage. The so-called “warblogs” emerged." https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-2001/ #internet #theweb #blogs #blogging #cyberculture

Happy Public Radio Music Day! https://noncommusic.org/prmd/ #publicradio

On this day, 56 years ago: "At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute." https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969 #arpanet #internet #history #otd #onthisday #technology

Happy 13th anniversary, @wikidata! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Thirteenth_Birthday #wikidata

"All together, across nearly six hundred pages, Collin de Plancy provided entries for sixty-five different demons, including favorites from the pages of Dante, Milton, and others [...]" https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/defining-the-demonic/ #demons #occultism #illustration #halloween

Interesting. WordPress and Ghost now make up more than half of all fediverse servers. https://fedi.wrm.sr #fediverse

I'm now running 60 automated fediverse accounts, packaged in an award-winning project that once got mentioned in the Rolling Stone magazine. "...offering up everything from a constantly-updated view of the weather at the South Pole to one that posts excerpts from the City of New York's archives […]

Last night, I could not sleep for frustration, anger and concern over the Trump regime weaponizing SNAP (food aid) benefits as the regime continues to insist on higher health insurance premiums. I decided to do something. I’ve started Mastodon for Hunger Relief, a fundraiser to help those whose […]

I've lately been quite obsessed with this app called StreetComplete. It gamifies contributing to OpenStreetMaps in a really nice way by giving you you little quests to do while you walk around. A fun way to get some steps in, to make you look closer at your […] [Original post on mas.to]

With only one week left of #looptober, it's a good time to remind folks who are participating that they can submit a link to their playlists/social media threads/blog posts to be featured on https://looptober.neocities.org! #music #musicloops

Weekend vibes. @looptober #looptober #looptober2025 #music

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@statues/115430691434371279 Please enjoy @statues!

Just got another "why are you posting photos when <bad thing> is happening". While posting photos may not be the most socially productive activity, it beats scolding strangers on the Internet by miles.

My #followfriday recommendation for this week is @aral and @joynewacc list of authentic, verified accounts of people in Gaza, who all need our help. https://gaza-verified.org #ff

The Wayback Machine was launched 24 years ago! "The Wayback Machine has a pulse, rhythmic and steady as it loops endlessly through the spaces of the web." https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/archiving-the-web/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine #onthisday #otd #history #internet #theweb […]

Happy Friday! Here's loop 24. @looptober #looptober #looptober2025 #music

"In 1777, the German physicist Ernst Chladni, who would later be crowned the Father of Acoustics, designed an experiment that revolutionized our understanding of sound. [...] Chladni’s ingenious demonstration also showed that sound could be observed in a variety of new ways, and would no […]

"A wave of anti-AI ads is appearing on TV screens, billboards, and social media feeds worldwide, as big brands tap into consumers' weariness with the technology." https://www.businessinsider.com/brands-reject-ai-aerie-heineken-polaroid-marketing-2025-10

"In this, I share tech journalist and Bluesky board member Mike Masnick’s informed belief that global centralized moderation is a dead end. And if centralized moderation isn’t a plausible way forward, then experimentation toward genuinely community-led governance of decentralized networks is […]

Hmm, it would be kind of neat to make a zine version of https://jointhefediverse.net 🤔

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caps_Lock #capslock #internationalcapslockday

Pretty happy with the result, too. https://radical-gallery.neocities.org #protestart #art

Today, October 21, 2025, there is a rally in San Francisco in support of @internetarchive. Tomorrow, the Internet Archive is having a party to celebrate 1 trillion webpages archived. To show my appreciation for their most famous creation, the Wayback Machine, this week's Cybercultural post takes […]

It feels good to make things.

A quick, beginner-friendly walkthrough on how to make a nice-looking, accessible image gallery and host it for free with Neocities. https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/making-a-free-image-gallery-with-neocities-org/ #tutorial #gallery #imagegallery #html #neocities #learntocode

Happy Monday, fediverse! Quick question. How well do you know the people you follow? Would you recognize them from their bios? https://data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fediverse-follows #fediverse #quiz #socialmedia

What the fascists really hate about the No Kings rallies is that you will meet other people who love democracy too and realize that you are not alone and be less afraid of them. Authoritarians thrive on fear and keeping people feeling scared and alone. Let’s all have a fun and peaceful time today.