New Disintermedia blog post, on 25 Years of Indymedia.org and the Independent Media Centres, and what it suggests about independent media in the fediverse and beyond;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/indymedia-stories-2-another-anniversary
#disintermedia
So I'm on the hunt for a new blog host for Disintermedia.
I'm living on a disability benefit, so I can't really afford to pay. But I'm happy to volunteer as a quid pro quo, and promote your service (if I didn't dig it, I wouldn't use it, which is the other reason I want to leave SubStack). Or you might just dig what I do, and want to support it.
Bonus points for a blogging engine that publishes over ActivityPub too, so people can follow it with their fediverse account.
Just over a year ago, in a piece I wrote for the #Disintermedia blog, I said of TVNZ;
"If left to limp along as a for-profit, the few really useful things it still owns (free-to-air broadcast infrastructure, studios, etc) are at risk of neglect and asset stripping."
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/reimagining-public-media-in-aotearoa
Called it.
This is what happens when you corporatise public infrastructure. The professional-managerial class run it into the ground.
(2/3)
"If videos don't load, it's becuase Youtube partly blocked me. This is a depressing day."
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=CrGHGwH2wlg
Official statement from the Disintermedia DataFarming Abolition Committee.
For immediate release.
Disintermedia spokeshuman Danyl Strype says "F%&k this shit."
Ends.
Heavily updated (recent) #Disintermedia blog post entitled 'Invasion of the MOLE Trainers'. Enjoy!
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-mole-trainers
Anyone who’s talked to me over the last couple years about the technological flea circus the impressionable SillyCon Valley business press have been calling "AI", will have noticed that I pointedly refuse to call it “AI”. Instead I refer to it as “MOLE” and talk about “MOLE training”. I thought it was about time I wrote about why, in some detail.
#Disintermedia supports the open letter from Petites Singularités callling on the EU to keep funding Next Generation Internet (NGI):
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/open-letter-the-european-union-must
My latest #Disintermedia piece explores the way some social strategies that work in-person don't always work as well online, or at all, and vice-versa;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/social-environments-and-their-malcontents
New #Disintermedia blog post on the product stewardship model; making sure manufacturers and retailers pay for the ecologically wise end-of-life disposal of the products they make and sell;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/internalising-the-costs-of-waste
I just reworked these ShowerThoughts about what makes television unique into a new Disintermedia article;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/a-future-for-television-in-aotearoa
New #Disintermedia blog post, on the challenges of building digital network infrastructure as commons;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/re-democratising-the-internet
New #Disintermedia blog piece about the lack of affordable, persistent online ID, and one way governments could provide one to every citizen;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/a-free-online-birth-certificate
I published a new #Disintermedia blog post this morning;
'SATIRE: Taylor Swift Generated by AI'
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/satire-taylor-swift-generated-by
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.
Despite having a bunch of archived pieces that need updating, I managed to miss posting to the #Disintermedia blog last week. So I popped in this bonus piece, a tongue-in-cheek short story that I call 'You people think you have good security on your websites, don't you. Don't you?'
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/you-people-think-you-have-good-security
I just published a new #Disintermedia blog piece;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/hey-activists-dont-be-a-mailchump
It's another old favourite from the original CoActivate version of the blog, encouraging activists and other community groups to stay in control of our mailing lists, instead of outsourcing it to for-profit companies that may well use it to #DataFarm our members and supporters.
If you appreciate the stuff I share here, one way you can support my work is to take out a paid subscription to the #Disintermedia blog;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/
Everything I publish there, like here, will always be free to access, under a CC license. Taking out a subscription is a way of buying me a coffee. If enough people buy me a coffee in a year, I can pay my rent in coffee ; )
Just republished one of my pieces from the original #Disintermedia blog on CoActivate.org, which made a case against political blocks in software and networks;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/ethical-technology-and-political
I'm aware this is a contentious one, but it's something I feel strongly about. I'm open to discussion it and even changing my mind, but you're going to need some very rigorous arguments and an ability to maintain a respectful dialogue.
Trolls from either side of the aisle will be ignored.
I just republished an old favourite from the dead CoActivate version of the #Disintermedia blog. The hardy annual about about why sending HTML as email is a bad idea:
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/get-your-html-email-off-my-lawn
Now that I've got 3 proper pieces posted (not including the intro) in under a month, I feel confident to turn on the thing that allows paid subscribers (hint, hint!).
New #Disintermedia blog post, a Comparison of the Indymedia network and the fediverse:
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/indymedia-and-the-fediverse
Last night I published my first proper piece on the Disintermedia blog (ie about something other than housekeeping). This one is my thoughts on the future of public media in Aotearoa:
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/reimagining-public-media-in-aotearoa
I wrote it a few months ago for Pundit, but AFAIK they never published it. It's become even more relevant in the light of the recent job cuts at TVNZ:
I'm pleased to announce I've just published the first piece on the new #Disintermedia blog. I'm hoping to post a long form piece at least once a week:
https://open.substack.com/pub/disintermedia/p/there-is-no-spoon
When I haven't got anything new to write about, I can update and republish something from the years of writing on the original version of the blog, which can currently only be read on archive.org:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200125112124/https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/
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