Mike ShewardShout out to this absolute legend travelling business class on the state ferry
living on unceded Wadawurrung land
feline shady, déclassée
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i'm just a cat whose intentions are good...
living on unceded Wadawurrung land
living on unceded Wadawurrung land
God 
Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think — which, frankly, is a relief in a world where a lot of people don't think at all.
Daniel Bowen"...at Glen Waverley train station where construction of the Suburban Rail Loop is already underway. The vast majority of people we spoke to who are directly impacted by this say they want it to continue."
-- SBS News 1/4/2025 https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/watch/2413955651933 #auspol #Melbourne
-- SBS News 1/4/2025 https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/watch/2413955651933 #auspol #Melbourne
Ellie (migrated for summer)in retrospect it's kind of incredible how many people fell for the ponzi schemes from a place called "silly con valley"
Public Transport Users Assoc🚂🎂Happy birthday Melton station, opened 2nd April 1884. This is the viaduct in 1885.
Suburban trains to Melton are sorely needed. Upgrading Sunshine station allows for express tracks with electrification. Funding is a Federal election issue, so consider your vote carefully🗳️
Linda WoodrowI had a wonderful podcast conversation with Catie Payne of Reskillience, published this morning to celebrate Permaculture Week. http://www.catie.com.au/podcast #permaculture #retrosuburbia #clifi #ClimateAction
Random Mandelbrot
lucie digitální
C.Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) blog post for today is a speech he gave last night at the University of Toronto, the annual Ursula Franklin Lecture at Innis College.
It's worth reading:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/
It connects the dots between anti-circumvention copyright laws like the USA's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (and the Canadian copycat legislation) and the enshittification that ensues when Big Tech does ... well, practically anything. There's a specific example he uses that is horrifying. He also shows exactly how Big Tech has escaped what he identifies as the usual four factors for keeping the worst instincts of companies in check.
I agree with him that we should annul the anti-circumvention law on the books, and would go further in saying that we should explicitly enshrine in law the rights to alter, repair, remove etc. any functionality of products and services that we choose to use. I was one of the original 6,000 Canadians who submitted comments warning against the implementation of these restrictions to our government at the time, and my feelings in support of this are stronger than ever.
Give it a read.
Attached image: I think this is probably overdue.
#CoryDoctorow #DMCA #circumvention #AntiCircumvention #DRM #enshittification #e14n #speech #UniversityOfToronto #InnisCollege #DigitalLock #RightToRepair #BigTech #Google #Facebook #Amazon #Microsoft #Canada #tech #software
