Eugen Rochko
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog. Luddite.
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog. Luddite.
Before the Dutch government presents the annual budget, they take down the previous budget website. And somehow the tradition grew to temporarily put a cat in its place. Behold https://www.rijksfinancien.nl/
Bill Wurtz on post-AI creative strategies. #billwurtz #postai
"In 1989, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sold off our then publicly owned water and sewerage industry for £5.2 billion.
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Private companies have paid out, in 2024 prices, around £83 billion—an average of £2.4 billion a year—as dividends, while loading the companies in debt. Often, those loans were taken out simply to increase the amount of cash extracted as dividends."
Each of us is only temporarily abled. So many of us think we're invincible but either through genetics, accident, illness, crime or old age(or a combination), we will all become disabled at at some point, to varying degrees. Protecting disabled people and making the world more accessible benefits everyone in the long run.
iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.
https://www.404media.co/ai-agent-platform-reinvents-spam-floods-inboxes-worldwide/
Some random man just walked into our house, up a floor, to tell our electrician to move his van. What the fuck.
The insanely psychotic UK Lawyers for Israel is trying to get Medicine Sans Frontiers proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK...
Pro-Israel group condemned for demanding UK ban on Doctors Without Borders
The single largest emitter of methane in the U.S. is Energy Transfer in Louisiana
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/us-companies-methane-pollution-rankings
For any fellow Mastodon server admins in the UK, I'm aware of the Social Media Platforms (Ofcom Licensing) Act 2026.
It would make it basically illegal to run a Mastodon server as a UK citizen.
It's a private member's bill and it's not likely to pass, I'm starting the lobbying against it. It won't pass on my watch. It's a good faith effort to solve a very specific problem but it's too broad.
https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/67647/documents/8738
Yep, this Hacker News post has the right of it. They're pushing for a "great slowdown" because the gains have been incremental for, uh, a while.
Like I'm not saying it's nothing, but it's nowhere near enough to get them to profitability, so they need an escape, and now. Or their valuation poofs.
If you really still think it’s about antisemitism—and not about enabling Palestinian genocide—then you’ll have to pretend Kanye pro Hitler West isn’t playing at several of the same venues Macklemore was just cancelled from for saying Free Palestine.😐
Apple found a new way to sabotage and ruin PWAs in iOS 27. When you add a PWA to the Home Screen, it forces this fade onto it, and you can't remove it. Unbelievable.
RE: https://mastodon.au/@nigl/117063080892127255
I need to know who’s responsible for the Gooder Living account, because it’s fucking amazing.
