John Naughton points out the big lesson from Sarah Wynn-William’s Meta exposé:
"The time has come for Starmer" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/whistleblowers-cult-zuckerberg-power-tech-bros
Drawing towards the end of several months of quite intensive Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. The best decision I’ve made in a long time. I finally feel equipped to make the very most of the second half of my life.
For all its faults, the NHS has been there for me when I needed it.
Started reading: Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚 https://micro.blog/books/9781603589963
This explains a lot about Facebook:
"Javi’s my favourite of the coworkers here tonight; Javier Olivan, in charge of “growth” at Facebook, which means he’s the person responsible for getting the billions who still aren’t on the platform to sign up. Javi’s a laid-back Spaniard and one of the few people in top management with a sense of humour."
From Careless People: A story of where I used to work by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚 https://micro.blog/books/1035065924
"But most days, working on policy at Facebook was way less like enacting a chapter from Machiavelli and way more like watching a bunch of four-teen-year-olds who’ve been given superpowers and an ungodly amount of money, as they jet around the world to figure out what power has bought and brought them."
From Careless People: A story of where I used to work by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚 https://micro.blog/books/1035065924
Started reading: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚 https://micro.blog/books/1035065924
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 (!) https://adders.blog/2025/03/12/just-found-a-cache-of.html
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.
It’s time to escape the AI trap. https://onemanandhisblog.com/2025/03/ai-take-a-guess/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share
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." https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied/
Recovery will not be rushed.
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. https://mjcarty.com/2025/03/08/recovery-will-not-be-rushed/
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. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/amazon-007-takeover-impact-future-james-bond-1236155844/
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. https://ryansholin.com/2025/03/03/wordpress-without-automattic/
Excited to see, via @manton, that @tapbots@tapbots.social have a new Bluesky app coming:
Phoenix.
I can’t wait. https://micro.blog/manton https://micro.blog/tapbots@tapbots.social https://tapbots.com/phoenix/
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. 
Making space elf Fire Dragons with my youngest in the Warhammer store. 
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. https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/landmark-day-for-beavers
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 https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/28/trump-uk-encryption-law-china/
That is… not a small number. 