Three Days of Trump's "Energy Ceasefire": One Side Has Paused, and Nobody Has Said the Terms
On 10-12 I wrote up the first night of the "energy ceasefire" Trump announced on 10-11. A day later there is enough to compare the claim with a short record....
"Last night I got an email from someone who said 'I'm 46, is it okay to start producing music?' I said 'yes, start now!'": How a 67-year-old pensioner went viral performing industrial techno at home
What started as a post-retirement hobby has led The Last DJ to runaway success and his first gig in 40 years. Now he's on a mission to inspire others to do the same
Twenty Days Well Spent - rpg.actor Updates
Lots has happened over the first rpg.actor game jam!
Mastodon's Eternal September
Figure 1: A ‘joke’ t-shirt made in 1994 commemorating Eternal September, taken from The Eternal September Wikipedia page The latest round of Twitter nonsense (changing the way “blocking” works) has caused another wave of people to abandon that site for pastures new. Nearly every one of them went to Bluesky instead of Mastodon. 1.2 Million people joined Bluesky in 48 hours. I wonder why that is? I bet there’s something about where people draw the line on Twitter’s behaviour and where they choose to go next. But I bet there’s something else to it too.
The Hero Returns: Steve Jobs’ real genius
As the three-year anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing approaches in October, complete lessons from his life and legacy are still far from…
Everything is In-Between — Douglas Rushkoff
I’ve begun this piece maybe twenty times in the past three weeks. By the time I’ve finished the first paragraph, some new thing happens that obsolesces whatever event I’m writing about. And I’m not even writing about the news, so much as using one shared moment as a “peg” for a piece about some larger phenomenon or strategy.
Thoughts on the Bluesky public incident write-up
Back on April 4, the social media site Bluesky suffered a pretty big outage. I was delighted to discover that one of their engineers, Jim Calabro, published a public writeup about it: April 2026 Ou…
A Reality Check on Our ‘Energy Transition’ | The Tyee
To our peril, there’s been no green revolution. Just green addition to rising fossil fuel use.
Dugan Nash on Twitter / X
I found old tweets that appear to belong to Jacob Coxon on the internet archive. While his current @hilbertspaess account was created in 2026, there were 2 previous Twitter accounts that used the same username between 2021-2024.Link to the tweets below -— Dugan Nash (@orville_sashhhh) September 16, 2026
Jim Grange on Twitter / X
How is this OK in 2024? Not even hitting the low-bar of "available upon request". Just not available. At all. pic.twitter.com/GEPXUdyhn4— Jim Grange (@JimGrange) August 4, 2024
An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism
How an unforgettable performance in Red Alert 3 became legend.
