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Recording of my talk @everythingopen is now up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVav23iC5Lo

#OpenAustralia #EverythingOpen #EO2026 #Democracy #Libraries

So it turns out that whilst we were away at #EO2026 a pigeon apparently managed to get down the chimney and into the living room.

I think that it was unfortunately stuck in there all through the heat wave, and with the airco off and everything shut tight it got to 40 degrees inside as well.

No water, so it did not survive. And it did not go quietly into that good night. A lot a lot of things (carpet, furniture, shelves, lights) are covered in pigeon poo.

📺 Keynotes are available to watch online 📺

Subscribe to our channel and keep checking the playlist for all the conference videos coming soon.

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Hi folks, Merri-bek Tech is kicking off 2026 with a great pair of talks on the internet we want, pushing back on big tech and supporting local communities.

These are the talks that Milly Schmidt and I gave at #EverythingOpen this year (#EO2026) and together they give a great overview of some of the options for us as individuals, and also cover what we're doing as a community in Merri-bek this year to try and build something better.

https://www.meetup.com/merri-bek-tech/events/313073832/

If you're thinking of coming to one of our #Solarpunk events in Naarm/Melbourne this year, this is probably the one to prioritise folks. We've got seating for up to 80, so I hope to see a bunch of you there.

RE: https://functional.cafe/@hackuador/115661991182175962

Help open the myGov Code Generator App!

The campaign has 7 days left and is almost half way to its goal to cover legal assistance

#auspol #eo2026 #everythingopen #RightToKnow #Transparency #OpenGovernment

Some longer form words about last weeks conference: https://popcorn.cx/blog/2026/01/back-in-canberra-for-everything-open/

#EO2026 #EverythingOpen

@treleanor @johnquiggin Re 'calling things out'...

One of the talks at #eo2026 by @emmadavidson posed the truism that "the standard you walk past is the standard you accept". I asked Emma how we could apply this in a world where the Outrage Machine is constantly feeding us information about things we need to 'call out'.

She responded - hope I paraphrase correctly here - that there are things that can be 'called out' and things that can be 'called in' - i.e. that may be able to be solved by polite personal responses rather than public calls.

Personally I still struggle with this question.

Because what good does a random post on Social Media about "calling out Albanese's <fill in disagreeable behaviour here>" do? Other than make you feel good that you've contributed to the Outrage Machine?

By all means write to the Prime Minister's office. Write to any politician, business leader, public figure, and 'call them out' on their behaviour. Their staff will add that to all the noise they get about everything they do and overall it changes nothing. I've had little to no success writing to any of them to either get a conversation going about what policies I actually object to, like approving new coal and gas harvesting, as opposed to mere opinions about whether a politician could say the things I want them to say.

Can we please stop feeding the Outrage Machine? Can we stop being addicted to being outraged?

Getting angry at whether Albanese's response to Tump was particularly this or that seems futile to me.