"The Freedom in Human-centred and Ethical Mobile Software (MOBIFREE) project works to give European citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centred and ethical mobile software."
https://mobifree.org/#how-it-works
#HatTip to the @fdroidorg folks who are a partner in this project, and referenced it in their retrospective on 2025;
On NRT: Climate Change: The sin of cheapness - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/02/climate-change-sin-of-cheapness.html
"... since 2010, New Zealand had incurred $64b in costs from natural hazards, at least $19b of which came from central government.
The research showed that 97% of the central government expenditure was on responding to and recovering from natural disasters, with only 3% spent on risk reduction and resilience."
#MartySharpe, 2026
#HatTip to @norightturnnz for the link (see the post above for a link to the post referencing this)
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"The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings.”
#HenryFarrell, 2025
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis
#HatTip to @laurenshof for bringing my attention to this piece in one of his;
https://connectedplaces.online/the-digital-services-act-and-theories-of-power/
@boehmax
> I would like to use more PeerTube and less YouTube … but I can’t seem to find nice creators
I'm guessing you've tried browsing the #PeerTube hashtag and searching for your interests on;
... and ...
Some other discovery methods are discussed here;
Searching PT is covered in more detail here;
https://fedi.tips/how-to-search-peertube/
#HatTip to @FediTips for the diligent work they continue to do on these guides.
#Listening to...
"Annihilation/Billionaire Death Drive is a second volume of anarcho-industrial punk from Te Whanganui-a-Tara’s Displeasure, the digital subsidiary of Unsanitary Napkin. The album expresses an even greater sense of urgency about the fragile state of our planet, and a greater sense of fury towards the depraved hypercapitalist sadists ruling over us"
https://mirlo.space/displeasure/release/annihilationbillionaire-death-drrive
#HatTip to unstream.stream for making this more discoverable!
If anyone is wondering why they're getting a bunch of notifications about posts featuring #Disintermedia blog pieces, I just edited them to replace the SS links with links to my Ghost instance at disintermedia.net.nz.
#HatTip to @lightweight for providing hosting and a huge amount of handholding to help me get this off the ground.
If you need some utter sillyness to distract you from the interactive horror novel that is postmodern life, here's an oldie but a goodie;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
#HatTip to Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist for reminding me of this.
If you need some utter sillyness to distract you from the interactive horror novel that is postmodern life, here's an oldie but a goodie;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
#HatTip to Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist for reminding me of this.
#Listening to A Better World, a 2025 album by political punk bands The Dissidents and D.O.V.E;
https://thedissidents.bandcamp.com/album/a-better-world
If you need to feel less alone in your frustration at the designer dysfunction of a world built for profit not people, check it out.
#HatTip to @uneasylistening for the link in their profile that led me to The Dissidents' music.
Now I'm #listening *again* to Rebuffering, a collaboration by Tizzer and krumpet_love, recorded in 2020. I listened to this about 4-5 times after discovering it last night;
https://blocsonic.com/releases/track/bscomp0054-disc-1-tizzerkrumpet-love-rebuffering/
Subsequent releases on Tizzer's BandCamp reveals them as more of a prog metal experiment. But this track is brooding psychedelic rock, like something from Radiohead's later albums. Their 2014 album Contact Light has more of this jammy vibe.
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#HatTip to Alternatives Airwaves, who featured Rebuffering in a Nov 2023 edition of their podcast. A mix of corporate rock, of which the podcast delivers only the intro and outro, and CreativeCommons tracks, played in their full glory;
#Listening to Rich People, a standalone track by Carsie Blanton from 2022;
https://carsieblanton.bandcamp.com/album/rich-people-digital-single
Licensed under CreativeCommons (BY-NC-ND 3.0), as is all the music she's released since on BC. Maybe everything there, but I didn't check every single release.
#HatTip to the @bsots Radio music podcast for introducing me to this song, in part 2 of the interview with @musicman;
https://radiobsots.blogspot.com/2023/07/bsots-180-in-conversation-with-douglas.html
If you'd like to follow the #Disintermedia blog from your fediverse account, I just set up an actor for my blog that you can follow from both the fediverse and the ATmosphere;
I'm hosting the blog on Ghost, which I thought was federated out-of-the-box. But it turns out I need a separate ActivityPub module to plug my Ghost instance into. As a stopgap, I can use BridgyFed for this.
#HatTip to the #BridgyFed team at @anewsocial for making this possible.
"... when people talk about autism they talk as if it were a gradient, not a spectrum at all."
#CLLynch, 2019
https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/
I've been uncomfortable with the way people talk about the autistic s spectrum for ages, but couldn't put my finger on why. This one sentence absolutely nails it.
#HatTip to @dedicto for referencing the article in their bio.
"... when people talk about autism they talk as if it were a gradient, not a spectrum at all."
#CLLynch, 2019
https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/
I've been uncomfortable with the way people talk about the autistic s spectrum for ages, but couldn't put my finger on why. This one sentence absolutely nails it.
#HatTip to @dedicto for referencing the article in their bio.
"In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens. This book gives shape and substance to a suspicion that has become widespread among workers in almost every industry: we have to follow more rules than ever-and still, things can go spectacularly wrong."
https://sidneydekker.com/compliance-capitalism
#HatTip to @dtauvdiodr for the reference.
#FreeTrade #FreeMarkets #neoliberalism #corporatism #SidneyDekker
"One thing, it's just going to take a while. These old girls, they've got old software. OK? It's just because that's what the government buys, they go for the cheapest software, that's why everything's crap, and that's why the government's so inefficient. LOL.
Don't quote me on that."
Jeremy, 'Nobody WINZ', 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH23qYXKo-s
#HatTip to @bigblen for the short film link. It's a bit surrealist, but it perfectly captures the Kafkaeque feeling of dealing with WINZ.
"One thing, it's just going to take a while. These old girls, they've got old software. OK? It's just because that's what the government buys, they go for the cheapest software, that's why everything's crap, and that's why the government's so inefficient. LOL.
Don't quote me on that."
Jeremy, 'Nobody WINZ', 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH23qYXKo-s
#HatTip to @bigblen for the short film link. It's a bit surrealist, but it perfectly captures the Kafkaeque feeling of dealing with WINZ.
#Listening to Who Can You Trust? The opening track of the 5 song EP of the same name by Arden and the Wolves, released in 2018;
https://ardenandthewolves.bandcamp.com/album/who-can-you-trust
Hot take; most provocative album cover ever.
#HatTip to Douglas @Rushkoff for introducing me to this band, by interviewing lead singer Ardern Leigh on his Team Human podcast;
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/343-arden-leigh-chasing-the-hungry-ghosts
"Advertising executives aren't 'creatives'. It's like calling landlords architects."
#DominicHoey, How to Lose Money
#HatTip to Freak the Sheep for exposing me to this righteous spoken word track.
https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/16767/17208338/freak-the-sheep-w-taylor-mcgregor-november-12-2025
Dominic is also known as Tourettes, maybe that track is here somewhere? Have a dig ...
