We have entered the age of goatse as government.
IYKYK
(I’m unreasonably proud of that phrase.) https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/02/we-are-become-meme/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share
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. https://adders.blog/tweets/
Terrible Tudors time from Horrible Histories at the Worthing Pavillion with my youngest. 
The Open Rights Group:
"The Home Office’s actions have deprived millions of Britons from accessing a security feature. As a result, British citizens will be at higher risk of their personal data and family photos falling into the hands of criminals and predators."
Exactly. They made us less safe to make their life easier. https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-response-to-apple-killing-its-data-protection-tools-for-uk-users/
I’m disgusted and angry at this. Not at Apple, but at our government:
"Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data."
The BBC’s Zoe Kleinman has the details of what’s happening to Advanced Data Protection in the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo
Matt Webb:
"Blogs are a backwater (the web itself is a backwater) but keeping one is a statement of how being online can work. Blogging as a kind of Amish performance of a better life.
Oh except that it does work as well as those other platforms, if that’s what you want, that’s the magic.
Also all the good people are here."
He’s hit his 25 years of blogging. For me… that’s next year. Blimey. https://interconnected.org/home/2025/02/19/reflections
What are the best RSS readers on Android and Windows these days?
Peter Bihr:
"Rather than accepting that tech happens to society, we need to put societal needs first, and then examine how we want and allow tech to play into that." https://thewavingcat.com/2025/02/its-time-to-re-frame-tech-society-as-a-field/
Seth Godin:
"Connection is powerful and magical. It’s also enervating, subject to manipulation and addictive." https://seths.blog/2025/02/all-of-it-all-at-once/
It’s always encouraging seeing new banks of EV chargers popping up. Today, it was my first spot of chargers on a National Trust property: Nymans. 
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex/nymans
I sometimes find it depressing how rarely I actually see people in their gardens. 
Laptop stickers state of play, Feb 2025. My somewhat venerable M1 MacBook Pro this morning. 
Mary E. Dozier:
"Compared with the general population, participants with hoarding disorder scored almost universally high on altruism."
Best cover ever. https://www.instagram.com/p/DFTDTTRoJDN/
Romantasy is here for your attention.
Blame TikTok. https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/02/tiktok-made-me-love-it/
January 2025 was probably the month I’ve taken the fewest photos in years. Possibly in decades.
I need to change that.
Late evening in Brighton station. 
Om Malik:
"DeepSeek represents more than just a product — it embodies a different way of thinking that challenges the conventional approach to AI. It’s not about a specific company, but about demonstrating that others can also leapfrog the big boys with clever thinking." https://om.co/2025/02/11/ai-china-copium/
Please don’t ruin it, Apple. 
Bit tired this morning. Had a tyre blow out in the way home, and the AA finally got to me over four hours later.
Got home just after 2.30am.
Today’s job: find a mobile tyre fitter.