"In references how in the past, major drug seizures would have a clear impact on consumption. That's no longer the case. According to the National Drug Intelligence Bureau, there was a 96% increase, in 2024, of the minimum annual consumption of methamphetamine compared to 2023."
#LillianHanly, Political Reporter, RNZ, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=0f53fc3a-0d35-4a91-8a3d-e6cdd4ed7d2a
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#podcasts#RNZ #FocusOnPolitics#DrugProhibition#WarOnSomeDrugs #meth#NDIB
"What you put in your mind is as important as what you put in your mouth."
Listening to Guyon Espiner's interview with CLuxon. He starts off sounding a tad more human than he did with Jack Tame, but the chatbot-speak kicks in about 5 minutes in;
"But what we are doing, is we have refreshed all of our Defence leadership, from heads of the Forces, through the Chief, through the Defence Secretary, through to the Minister, obviously. And I've asked them for a new strategy on our defence strategy."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/30-with-guyon-espiner?share=514c090c-041b-48b6-8c90-bf6986a67eb2
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"... you certainly have still, a lot of tech billionaires still giving money to the Democrats ..."
#ParisMarx, 2024
https://techwontsave.us/episode/248_silicon_valley_is_reshaping_us_democracy_w_jacob_silverman
Of course, this is what billionaires do. They give millions to both campaigns, so whoever wins, they get stuff they want.
"Elon Musk has given $574,500 to Republicans and $542,000 to the Democrats, per OpenSecrets."
#SamTabahriti, 2022
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-has-donated-more-to-republicans-than-democrats-2022-11
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"Elon Musk was the latest to try the lights out approach and realised it didn’t work.
Instead, if the US wants to succeed with a competitive manufacturing sector, it needs to look to post-war Japan. Workers were an integral part of the refinement and adaptive nature of manufacturing processes, in part because of the company-based (rather than industry-speciifc) union structure."
https://shows.acast.com/debunkingeconomics/episodes/bringing-manufacturing-home-the-japanese-way
The radicalism of the 1960s must have come from somewhere. I've read that it was an attempt by the youth movements to hold their parents generation to its own professed standards. As represented by the broadcasts on Radio Free Asia, and other US broadcasts into countries of the Eastern Bloc and the Nonaligned Movement.
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I'm #listening to the latest mix from SSSD (kia ora e hoa!);
https://www.freefm.org.nz/Programmes/Details.aspx?PID=97468cee-0f3c-4451-952a-8d2473baa59e
He drops a sample from a rah-rah post-WW2 film uses the phrase "future citizen's" to describe children in public education. That's some aspirational language. We could use a bit of that.
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This 2018 interview with Emily Richards (aka #MadameSnowflake), highlights a range of issues #ccMixter have had with CC-license compliance on YouTub. Things I hadn't thought of too, like how to detect posting other people's CC music as if you're the creator;
https://www.musicmanumit.com/2017/12/emily-richards-of-ccmixter-171231-music.html
Makes me wonder how all this could be handled on PeerTube servers, and other media hosts in the fediverse, to make the experience better for both artists and hosts.
"There's a guy in Montreal ... who goes by @heliomass on Mastodon and he created a great set of French and English STM bots. So all in one place you can see what the status is of Transit in Montreal, and it's great. That's what Twitter used to have, that the transit agencies should have built themselves ... but whatever."
@paige, 2025
https://video.fedihost.co/w/rnNZ3FxnH977sFUDpQTwC7
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I've had my #podcasts' #RSS feeds with Blubrry PowerPress since I started #podcasting. But I'm considering moving The Audacity to Podcast's feed to a #podcast-hosting provider to fully optimize the in-app data beyond what PowerPress lets me do.
This might be my biggest tech change since starting!
The first half of this made more sympathetic to ZuckerBorg's position. Which made me puke into the back of my mouth as soon as I noticed it, but that's how unimpressive I found their discussion.
"Legacy media" is DOGE phrase. Huh? This was already a descriptive term for pre-digital media during Occupy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/podcasts/hardfork-meta-zuck-o3.html
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#podcasts #NYTimes #Platforner #HardFork #FreedomOfExpression
Folks (bandwagon, jam, etc) are getting together to build those kind of standards on this platform: https://the.socialmusic.network/
I've been really enjoying some episodes of the podcast for Lorenzo's Music. As a band they're champions of CC licensing and Free Code audio production tools, and recently they've done a number of interviews about community-hosted music platforms, fediverse projects and platform cooperatives.
* Simon Repp of #FairCamp: https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2025/01/simon-repp-faircamp-self-hosted-music.html
* Simon Vansintjan of #Mirlo: https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2025/02/simon-vansintjan-of-mirlo.html
* Ben Pate of #BandWagonhttps://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2025/04/ben-pate-of-bandwagonfm.html
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Maybe rather than talking about federating everything on the web, we need to talk about federating what, and how.
In an interview with Simon Vansintjan from Mirlo, he talks about anyone with an account on their platform can create a music blog. It would be great to be able to subscribe to one of those blogs via ActivityPub, and get a notification in nu fediverse account whenever they publish new post.
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"I think the answer isn't somehow, lets just ... silence the people we don't like, and only give voice to the people we do like ... I think that systems that suppress speech like that are not the answer.
I think at the same time, we have to realise that there are people who are using speech, especially inauthentic, coordinated behaviour ... where the goal is not to make counterarguments, the goal is to use speech to silence other people's speech."
@rabble, 2025
https://decentered.co.uk/building-participatory-media-with-evan-henshaw-plath-aka-rabble/
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"A lot of people came off X and went onto BlueSky, and said 'oh this doesn't accord with our values', and I thought that was a huge mistake. Because you've given up the ground, and the good people need to be in the place where people are."
#RobWatson, 2025
https://decentered.co.uk/building-participatory-media-with-evan-henshaw-plath-aka-rabble/
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This comment folds in so many assumptions it would take a long form essay to properly unpack.
Just discovered a second podcast called Decentered (the name of the @wedistribute podcast). Listening to their fantastic interview with @rabble from Nos.social. Where he talks a lot less about the history of Titter, and a lot more about the history of Indymedia, and his more recent work with decentralised social media;
https://decentered.co.uk/building-participatory-media-with-evan-henshaw-plath-aka-rabble/
#podcasts #Decentered #TechHistory #Indymedia #IndependentMedia #decentralisation
#TIL about @frequency, a federated photo-sharing app;
"I'm trying to be very upfront. Like, OK you're going to have to pay for this service. But I really want to make it as affordable as possible. I want to give you options to pay for your family and friends, to bring everybody in if there's someone that can't pay for it ..."
#JesseKarmani, 2024 (@jesseplusplus)
https://wedistribute.org/podcast/frequency-jesse-karmani/
EDIT: Link is working again as of 2025-06-15.
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"As with blockchain, 99% of all conversations about AI are non-consensual."
#CoryDoctorow, 2025
https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/cory-doctorow-GZCk_wnN
"... things keep getting kicked down the road ... if we don't achieve big action, we have a terrible crisis coming."
#DavidSlack, 2025
https://feeds.95bfm.com/link/18452/17049812/political-commentary-with-david-slack-june-12-2025
He's talking about action on climate change and renewable energy in particular here, but this sums up our political situation in general. Extraction-as-usual can not continue much longer without risking total social breakdown. Just look at what's happening in the US.
This would allow people on benefits to have a go at creating new jobs for themselves, instead of playing musical chairs with everyone else trying to get more paid hours. The cost would be not much greater than paying the same people benefits, and would be further subsidised by not having to put WINZ staff time into managing their case.
Even in the worst case scenario where the business fails and all the workers ends up back on a benefit, they'd all gain skills and confidence from having a go.
"I just don't think there's a quick, easy solution without raising taxes, bringing more revenue into the economy, and again, people will also push back at that. When Barbara tries to introduce [taxes on] the Capital Gain or wealth or whatever ... there'll be a bit of squealing about that too. But ..."
#FranOSullivan, 2025
O’Sullivan is a Rogernome from way back, but even she seems to accept that we need a change in our political paradigm.
"As we become aware as a public we're putting pressure on our democratic institutions. We need new law, we need new regulatory regimes that interrupt and outlaw the key mechanisms of surveillance capitalism. Including the very principles of taking human experience unilaterally and turning it into data ... do we want a dominant capitalism that trades in behavioural futures?"
#ShoshanaZuboff, 2019
#podcasts#Vox#RecodeDecode#SurveillanceCapitalism#DataFarms #platforms
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
