Good morning! Today I’m hosting a Mastodon interview with Brent Simmons / @brentsimmons.
Brent is the creator of NetNewsWire / @NetNewsWire and a long-time voice in the RSS and open web community.

I’ll be asking a series of questions here in this thread and we’d love to hear form you.. Brent will reply whenever it’s convenient for him.

Follow along using #interview.

Let’s begin.

We invite artists from all over the world to imagine, question, and re-stage what it means to vote and to come together as a community.

Create a one-minute video that captures how elections and voting take shape where you are.

Show us how it’s done in your community!

Submit your One Minute by 10 March
theoneminutes.org/participate

Selected films will be shown amid live voting audiences, including former pathology lab cult cinema LAB111 in Amsterdam.

video: Landslide, Chris Furby, 2025, UK

f(x,y) = (((-(23 % y)) + (-(-y))) & (((13 ^ x) | (x & x)) + (~(x & x)))) % 8

Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)

"Onebit" colouring scheme.

💋 There is only one way to KISS – Keep it Safe and Secure: with strong encryption, ban on spyware, democratic oversight and communities with power. Anything less than that is control & surveillance.

Together with allies, we’re launching this campaign to protect our messages AND devices in digital space.

If you ♥️ encryption & 💔 spyware, check out & support our campaign ➡️ https://edri.org/take-action/our-campaigns/keep-it-safe-and-secure/

Call for Papers · Deadline: 16th Mar. 2026. Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Computation.

👉🏻 https://www.biblhertz.it/3773193/