Twitter is turning 20 years old this month and we are slowly starting to have a debate about social media regulation (in the form of age restrictions). I’m looking forward to discussing if and how we should regulate generative AI around 2045.

They deliberately engineered social media to be addictive to sell more ads. It’s pointless to talk about the symptoms while ignoring the underlying cause: a deeply flawed economic system that relies on you buying more shit than you need.

I sent Tony Burke a message telling him to let the #iranian women's football team stay in #australia if they want to. You can fill in his contact form here: https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Contact_Senator_or_Member?MPID=DYW #auspol

[News; Wars] I tallied some things related to a promise to “stop wars”. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-08/donald-trump-iran-military-actions-australia-response/106411630

The Enshittificator - a Norwegian documentary about the life of an Enshittificator and how the Internet and AI has enhanced his productivity. https://vimeo.com/1168468796

Happy #deladay! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVYDHTOixU #music #delasoul #tinydeskconcert

Breitbart said "politics is downstream from culture". Maybe today we should say "civics is downstream from attention". That's the power of Trump and his media CEO sycophants. He says and does crazy shit and they make sure most people are bombarded by coverage of it. They both get paid. The […]

TWU rally against #amazon in #melbourne https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0RCnPF3x-Q #AmazonSucks

I wanna be a door https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2qcbu26gs

M805 Multiple Tumbling - N.S.W. Educ. Dept Chart – Subject : CHARTS-VEC – part of VPRS14517, Negatives of Photographs Publications Branch]. [https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/F2DE6E19-5614-11EB-BE8C-89ADEC740D59

Urban Moonrise, 2020. All the pixels, with the colors carefully removed from each by a team of artisans, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/50083929243 #photography

"Podcasts" that do not have a RSS feed and hence cannot be played on an iPod: why do they call them #podcasts at all? Why not "Youtube channel"?

"The option “Move automatically to DeltaChat Folder” as well as other legacy options will be removed in the next weeks. ... Only if you share the same email address for chatting and classic usage, which is discouraged since some time, the encrypted messages in the Inbox may be annoying." […]

Has anyone tried #vaultwarden ? Is it good?

new blog post: security and blobs https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-02-22-security-and-blobs.en.html

Source #Japan #Nippon

I bought an #android phone. I was pleased to find I could sandbox and freeze the #amazon Flex app when not in use by putting it in a "work" profile using the Shelter app; can't do that with #uber driver app unfortunately because it needs Google pay which doesn't work in the work profile.

“ISIS brides” sounds like a heavy metal band.

"While Australia has no import limits or industry-stopping tariffs on Chinese EVs, Canada still does. The country’s new deal with China limits imported units to 49,000 at the 6% tariff rate to start, increasing to a maximum of 70,000 units. That means Chinese brands will naturally have to be […]

アメリカのバージニア州の酒屋で、店の酒を飲みまくって酔っ払ってトイレでぶっ倒れているアライグマが発見された。アライグマは数時間眠ったのち泥酔から回復し、野生に帰っていったという。無事でよかったが、生活習慣を改めるべきだろう abcnews.go.com/US/drunk-rac...

It doesn’t take a lot of words to explain why the Coalition is imploding. Just one. Queensland. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Trying out the fediverse for the first time today. I've been reading a lot about it, now it's time to figure out how it works and build an internet home here. My goal is to figure out how I can bring www.gobikecamping.com into the fediverse and help people who love bike touring own their data […]

The plain text version of an email is quite different from the text in the html version. 🧐

I got a haircut yesterday and asked my daughter what she thought of it. She said “bad,but not as bad as the last one”. 2026 looking up!

I started wearing glasses today. Feels strange. I look weird too.

Hi #Forkiverse folks: thought you might like to know, you can follow both #Hardfork and #SearchEngine through the fediverse too. Follow the #Podcasts by following these two fediverse accounts that bridge the RSS feeds to the open social web. @1026613 and @1371595#forkiverse#hardfork#searchengine#podcastsu can follow and see each […]

The secret anti-protest police in Australia 7ampodcast.com.au

Yay! I just got my own #xmpp server up and running using #prosody. My address is [email protected]

Please explain why you still use the internet if you think federating with #bluesky is bad now cause #ice joined. The web has Nazis too. People don't seem to understand that on decentralized networks, horrible people also using it is only a problem if their shit is pushed at us. If their […]

RE: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/ We're now up to TWELVE sites which are text only 🙂 If you want a fun weekend project, see if you can make a plaintext version of your blog. Details:

The “Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026” is going to be a disaster for free speech in Australia. The Liberals and the Greens are right to block it. If you want a feel for the kind of chilling effect it will have, read up on what’s going on in Europe, especially the U.K […]

Some of the writers who withdrew from Adelaide Writers’ Week after Randa Abdel-Fattah’s cancellation have previously argued that free speech is not freedom from consequences, including organisers deciding not to host someone. E.g. Jane Caro (2018). #auspol […]

Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 37 years ago today, Y1 class #tram no 613 running a summer Sundays trip to St Kilda Beach, stops in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, January 15, 1989. On Summer Sundays in the 1980s, extra trams were run to the tourist […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

[Iran] Just in 48 hours, 12'000 people were killed. This means on average 4.16 people *per minute* lost their lives. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protest-death-toll-over-12000-feared-higher-video-bodies-at-morgue/ This 2 days death toll is way more than the maximum death in *a month* in […]

My wife and I got different fitness trackers recently. I already #selfhost a bunch of services. Are there any decent FOSS apps for syncing/sharing/archiving workout and health data?

I've started using a #podcast server called #pinepods which is sort of like tt-rss but for podcasts. It works pretty well. At first I tried running it on #slackware but installing #docker on there was a bummer (failed to build) so I gave up and used #debian. It works pretty well if you subscribe […]

Good to hear @Podnews's predications for #2026. https://pod.link/podnewsweeklyreview/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xODQ3ODIyMA Even better to hear #adptivepodcasting being mentioned (38:00 - SMIL podcasting) by @samsethi#adptivepodcasting& @james Maybe too advanced for its time in 2023, but certainly something which […]

One of my favourite #podcasts “Search Engine” has done an episode on the fediverse! 🥳

Maybe Denmark could swap Greenland for Washington D.C.

The more I look into it, the #podcast2 folks fighting for open podcasts are in exactly the same fight, with almost 100 % the same challenges & opponents as the #opensocialweb folks are. Just a different front. We should all be natural allies. cc: @samsethi#podcast2#opensocialweb…]

The golden age of vaccine development https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-golden-age-of-vaccine-development/

Two basic rules of government: Never look into anything you don't have to. And never set up an inquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be. #auspol

Dual-cab ute, but Kei Car. Spotted on the streets of Kawagoe. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car)

So I have only just discovered at some vague point in the next couple weeks Google is going to break the way my work email works, and the company has done nothing to alert people to it. www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...

How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought. https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html #github #floss

Last week we went to have lunch with friends and were talking about what we do online for entertainment. I said I am a podcast fanatic. My friend was very surprised and didn’t know what podcasts were; he just follows channels on YouTube. I don’t mind listening to the occasional ad on a podcast […]

Man who filmed Uyghur concentration camps now fights for his own freedom in the United States https://hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-filmed-uyghur-concentration