Ghosting SubStack
Why I finally decided to leave, and where I'm going next
Latest
Farcebook: One Thing To Rule Them All
The challenges of developing a privacy-enhancing everything app.
Resting Comfortably
Combining chronic emergency conditions and a nasty illness, not a great plan.
Indymedia Stores #4: Valuing Our Contributions
This is what imposter syndrome looks like. Maybe. Is it? Maybe it isn't ...
Get a Room
The challenges of having reliably-private conversations in decentralised networks
Indymedia Stories #3: Rob and Me
The tightrope between tinfoil-hat paranoia and rose-tinted naivety
Guess Who's Back, Tell a Friend
A quick update on future prospects for the Disintermedia blog
Indymedia Stories #2: Another Anniversary, Looking to the Future
25 Years of Indymedia.org and the Independent Media Centres
Open Letter: The European Union must keep funding free software
Open letter initially published in French by Petites Singularités
Invasion of the MOLE Trainers
Why I use "MOLE" to describe what most people are calling "AI"
In Space No One Can Hear You Screen
When social skills work differently in online and offline social situations
Internalising the Costs of Waste Management
Paying for the ecologically wise disposal of products at end-of-life, is the responsibility of the people who make and sell them.
public media
A Future for Television in Aotearoa?
If it has one, the future of television lies in live broadcasting.
community networks
(Re-)Democratising the Internet
The Challenges of Building Digital Network Infrastructure as Commons
id
A Free Online Birth Certificate
A modest proposal to liberate us all from second-class citizenship online
satire
SATIRE: Taylor Swift Generated by AI
Please note: this piece is satire, intended to be laughed at or ignored, not taken seriously. It was definitely written by an actual human and *not* an AI. Seriously.
Newsletter
Happy Solstice!
One happy return for Disintermedia, peace and goodwill to all
social media
Introducing the Bridge Seat Cooperative
Or what Strypey has been doing with his days this year
humour
Short Story: You people think you have good security on your websites, don't you. Don't you?
A tongue-in-cheek original short story
startups
Hey Activists, Don’t Be a MailChump!
We don't need DataFarmers to send email for us
mozilla
Ethical Technology and Political Strategy
The Case Against Political Blocks in Software and Networks
html email
Get Your HTML Email Off My Lawn!
Why nobody ought to send HTML by email, ever
indymedia
Indymedia Stories #1: Indymedia and the fediverse
A Comparison
rnz
Reimagining Public media in Aotearoa
The only thing we can't afford to do is nothing