Started reading: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚
Just found a cache of old videos on my Dropbox, while hunting for something for a friend. Here’s some moments from a trip to Helsinki in the early morning, when I was doing some work with Nokia (!)
Everything we’ve learnt about technology is upended by AI: we’re used to digital technology being frustratingly literal — but AIs make shit up. They’re guessing machines, and until we learn that, we’ll keep making mistakes.
Hmm. I can’t figure out how Micro Social’s link post format works. I can see it in the settings, but can’t figure out how to invoke it when posting.
The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied:
The fediverse is a jailbreak. It’s not a product, not a single platform, it’s not something you can buy stock in or use to enrich yourself at the cost of our shared humanity. It’s a network of independent, interconnected social platforms, all running on open protocols like ActivityPub. It’s an ecosystem where you - not some incellionaire obsessed with eugenics - own your digital identity. Where your social graph belongs to you, not an algorithm’s shifting fucking whims.
One of the major societal advances of my time on this planet is how much more seriously we take mental health these days. We’ve reshaped the world faster than our brains can evolve to cope, and that has consequences.
This doesn’t fill me with hope for the future of Bond: Inside Amazon’s 007 Takeover.
Maybe Amazon just paid an awful lot of money for something that’s had its day.
I found myself wondering what had happened to Kevin Rose, of Digg / Diggnation fame nearly two decades ago.
Turns out… he’s working on bringing DIgg back.
And Diggnation is already back. We’re in the Web 2.0 nostalgia phase, aren’t we?
Ryan Sholin is sticking with WordPress — but leaving behind Automatic hosting and services.
Seems a sensible response to the recent behaviour of the Automattic CEO.
Excited to see, via @manton, that @tapbots@tapbots.social have a new Bluesky app coming:
I can’t wait.
This is just awesome:
A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our solar system’s gas giant is drifting through the cosmos around 20 light-years from Earth.
I did my paternal duty and produced a stack of pancakes for my offspring to celebrate Shrove Tuesday.
Interesting to see Press Gazette doing a “return to the office” survey of journalism workplaces - using Substack.
But it requires you to have a Substack login to take it.
It’s a landmark day for beavers:
Sussex Wildlife Trust welcomes the announcement today allowing licensed releases of Beavers into the wild in England, whilst confirming that all existing wild populations can remain and expand naturally. This means that rather than releasing into isolated enclosures, the Government will support catchment-scale releases of Beavers. For the first time in over 400 years, Beavers can live and move freely in our rivers.
In a sea of bleak, depressing news, this is exciting stuff.
Well, it had to happen. Here’s the first thing I actually agree with the current US president about:
Trump likens UK encryption law to ‘something you hear about with China’.
A stopped clock etc etc
Just updated my Twitter archive on micro.blog. It really brought home just how little I use the platform now. I first joined back in 2006, and it was once my main social media hangout.
Thanks for nothing, Melon Husk.
