The Rise of the Billionaires. Democracy for sale to the highest bidder?
by Aleta Moriarty | Jan 20, 2026
https://michaelwest.com.au/the-rise-of-the-billionaires-democracy-for-sale-to-the-highest-bidder/
Thank goodness for independent media! Still too many people plugged into the #murdochmatrix and their ilk - time to unplug!
#indieweb #media #auspol #kleptocracy
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"html": "<p>Ano Novo, Casa Nova</p><p><a href=\"https://gmgall.net/blog/ano-novo-casa-nova/\"><span>https://</span><span>gmgall.net/blog/ano-novo-casa-</span><span>nova/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://ursal.zone/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://ursal.zone/tags/smallWeb\">#<span>smallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://ursal.zone/tags/hugo\">#<span>hugo</span></a> <a href=\"https://ursal.zone/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://ursal.zone/tags/indieWeb\">#<span>indieWeb</span></a></p>",
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Designing a service with IndieAuth and email-based login
Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, offers three methods of authentication: IndieAuth, email and password, and passkeys. IndieAuth is offered as a sign-in method because I want Artemis to allow people to use their domain names as their identities.
[...]
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/20/indieauth-email-login-design/
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"html": "<p>Que Bruxaria \u00e9 essa, Tom Morello?</p><p><a href=\"https://curadoria.bearblog.dev/que-bruxaria-e-essa-tom-morello/\"><span>https://</span><span>curadoria.bearblog.dev/que-bru</span><span>xaria-e-essa-tom-morello/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/TomMorello\">#<span>TomMorello</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/RATM\">#<span>RATM</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/Musica\">#<span>Musica</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/Music\">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/SmallWeb\">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/SurfandoWeb\">#<span>SurfandoWeb</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/CuradoriaDaInternet\">#<span>CuradoriaDaInternet</span></a> <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/BlogsBR\">#<span>BlogsBR</span></a> @blogsbr <a href=\"https://bolha.us/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a></p>",
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not wanting to miss out on the #indieweb bandwagon, microsoft chooses to bring back that classic embossed graphics look corel photopaint gave us in 1996.
3 decades later, they've added a shiny enhancement i think we can all agree looks like slime. peak design.
mmmm, slime
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Anyway, here's some more links to interesting projects in the #permacomputing space, starting with Branch magazine - an online magazine by and for people who envision a sustainable and liberating internet:
https://branch.climateaction.tech/
#SmallWeb #indieweb
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> «I reject the dead Internet theory: I see a vibrant Internet full of humans #sharing their experiences and seeking connection... Humans inherently create, connect, and share: we always have and we always will. If you choose software that works in your interest you’ll find that it’s possible to make meaningful online #connections without mental hazard.»
~ https://alexsci.com/blog/calm-tech-discover/
#IndieWeb #FLOSS
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It's getting weird out there, but there's still a #DailyBlogroll with @wilhelm_arcturus, @davew, Luna, @WarnerCrocker, @monsterladysdiary.com, @rogeredwards, @anarchaeopteryx, @Aywren, @virtualmoose.org, @stargrace, Cliffski and more!
https://westkarana.xyz/
#IndieGames #CozyGames #IndieWeb #OpenWeb
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This Just In: AI use isn't a moral binary. There's a practical middle path for writers.
https://justincox.com/blog/2026/01/ai-is-not-an-all-or-nothing-choice/#Blog #Link #IndieWeb
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Page 87 is out !
https://glivy.webcomic.ws/comics/87/
This arc is going to wrap up soon, yay
(this page took forever to make idk why)
#glivy #art #webcomic #furry #Cartoon #indicomic #indieweb
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Ormai da quasi due anni ho ripreso a seguire quotidianamente blog via feed rss e sono quasi tutti attinenti al mondo IT e sparsi per il mondo.
Sto cercando blog italiani da seguire, non importa che siano tecnici, vanno benissimo tutti.
Scrivete su un blog?
State pensando di farlo? Fatelo!
E scrivetemi qui sotto l’indirizzo del vostro sito web.
Grazie!
#indieweb
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ML can model the smooth parts of progress, but it never sees the discontinuities.
In my latest essay, I use MediEvil speedrun history to show why machine learning forecasts fail when real–world innovations disrupt the pattern. Smooth curves hide chaos.
https://buthonestly.io/programming/limits-of-machine-learning/
#MachineLearning #AI #TechCritique #DataScience #Programming #ComplexSystems #IndieWeb
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"html": "<p>ML can model the smooth parts of progress, but it never sees the discontinuities.</p><p>In my latest essay, I use MediEvil speedrun history to show why machine learning forecasts fail when real\u2013world innovations disrupt the pattern. Smooth curves hide chaos.</p><p><a href=\"https://buthonestly.io/programming/limits-of-machine-learning/\"><span>https://</span><span>buthonestly.io/programming/lim</span><span>its-of-machine-learning/</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/MachineLearning\">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/AI\">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/TechCritique\">#<span>TechCritique</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/DataScience\">#<span>DataScience</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/Programming\">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/ComplexSystems\">#<span>ComplexSystems</span></a> <a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/IndieWeb\">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>",
"text": "ML can model the smooth parts of progress, but it never sees the discontinuities.\n\nIn my latest essay, I use MediEvil speedrun history to show why machine learning forecasts fail when real\u2013world innovations disrupt the pattern. Smooth curves hide chaos.\n\nhttps://buthonestly.io/programming/limits-of-machine-learning/\n\n#MachineLearning #AI #TechCritique #DataScience #Programming #ComplexSystems #IndieWeb"
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"html": "<p>Back in the day, independent social media enthusiasts were building their own social spaces on RSS/Atom and self-hosted publishing. There was a huge ecosystem of feed readers and publishing software, where anyone could use their own choice of tools to interact with the space, and it was super cool.</p><p>Then Google got into it and made Google Reader, which was a really good feed reader, but they couldn\u2019t figure out how to make it profitable and wanted to shove everyone over to Google+, so they shut Google Reader down, and then the tech press breathlessly claimed that RSS was now dead as a result, and because RSS was (in their eyes) dead, it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nowadays, RSS is seen as an obsolete thing only used by diehards, and corporate social media has become the norm, with a relatively tiny faction of people settling on ActivityPub instead, despite it being a poor match for the kinds of things that people used RSS for.</p>\n\n\n<p>And now the same goddamn thing is happening with Virtual Reality. It was a thriving enthusiast space taken up by people who had a lot of fun seeing what they could build, and making amazing games and social environments and so on in a very DIY-friendly way. And then Facebook decided they needed to get in on that and acquired so many of the manufacturers and game producers involved in the space, pivoted <em>hard</em> to trying to make corporate metaverse bullshit a thing even though literally nobody wants it (Meta Horizons is basically Zoom with extra steps and even less whimsy), and shoveled <em>so much</em> money at it.</p><p>Now they\u2019re realizing they have no idea how to make it profitable and are shutting down all of the companies that were making VR great, including studios that were actually profitable but just not profitable enough to offset their misplaced ambitions.</p><p>And the tech press is now <a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/metas-layoffs-leave-supernatural-fitness-users-in-mourning\">declaring VR dead</a>, meaning that those of us who are continuing to thrive in virtual spaces using enthusiast hardware and so on are likely to be left in the lurch at some point.</p><p>Thankfully, Valve and ByteDance are keeping the hardware side of things alive in ways that are actually along the lines of what people want, but I still worry that \u201cVR is now dead\u201d narratives will cause people at those companies to re-evaluate that as well.</p><p>VR has been super important and helpful to me, both as a multiply-disabled independent musician and as someone who cares deeply about the trans community. Hopefully VRChat survives, and hopefully there continue to be hardware manufacturers who care about VR without caring about it being hyper-profitable, but I\u2019m already very worried about the lasting damage that will happen from this. (And I was worried when Meta decided to get into VR to begin with, because I very much saw this situation coming!)</p><p>As always, I am frustrated and horrified at how modern capitalism doesn\u2019t allow something to just be good and sustainably profitable, it has to get All The Money or else it\u2019s seen as a failure. This happens over and over and over again and I\u2019m so sick of it.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3839-Could-big-tech-please-stop-ruining-enthusiast-things#comments\">comments</a></p>\n\n \n <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/?id=3839&tag=rant\">#rant</a>\n \n <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/?id=3839&tag=vr\">#VR</a>\n \n <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/?id=3839&tag=virtual-reality\">#virtual reality</a>\n \n <a href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/?id=3839&tag=rss\">#RSS</a>",
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"text": "Regarding this present moment, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg offers a prayer. In part:\n\n\n\n\u201cNotice all the layers of emotion you might be having about this\u2013\n\nthe terror, rage, despair, helplessness, anguish, hope, heartbreak, and/or something else.\n\nJust notice?\n\nThe great lie that we're separate from each other \u2013 that hate is logical, that stealing human beings or hurling bullets makes sense \u2013 is related to the lie that we're separate from the Earth and all things.\n\nHowever you do it, find a way to lift something up from your heart today.\u201d\n\u2014 \u201chow to face the horrors of now\u201d by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg\n\n\n\nFun\n\nNeed some encouragement to blog? Ava\u2019s got some GIFs for you.\n\tEric Mill posted 10 games he loved in 2025. This massive Sudoku Metroidvania jumped out at me. I\u2019ve started on it and expect it to be a loooong one.\n\t\nEkul.me is a newer member of the IndieWeb community and has a lot of fun things on his site: a retro computer terminal aesthetic, icons showing other visitors\u2019 mouse movements on the page, tracking Monster Energy intake, and a map that IndieWeb people can add themselves to.\nMusic\n\nNew earworm: \u201cDivorce Horse Court\u201d by Queen Frog\n\nTech\n\nCory Doctorow wrote this great bit. No notes:\n\t\n\tI'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.\n\t\u2014 Sorry, eh by Cory Doctorow\n\n\t\nHealth\n\n\nduringcovid.com: I was feeling some frustration with people\u2019s use of \u201cduring covid\u201d and thought about setting up a single-serving website. I was pleased to find someone else already did.\n\tLoved Ava\u2019s post \u201cyes, i still wear a mask.\u201d Don\u2019t be mean to people who are wearing masks!",
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"html": "<p>The Art of Nested Code Fencing in Markdown: <a href=\"https://susam.net/nested-code-fences.html\"><span>https://</span><span>susam.net/nested-code-fences.h</span><span>tml</span></a></p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blog\">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/post\">#<span>post</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/markdown\">#<span>markdown</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/programming\">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/technology\">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/webdev\">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a></p>",
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Which Part of the Indie Web Ethos is the Bigger Priority?
The tension between getting people off of the corporate web, and the fact that a lot of people can't afford the time and money to host their own online presence.
#IndieWeb #PersonalWeb
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Sorry for going a bit quiet lately. I’ve been properly buried in building a brand new theme for my website, plus a bunch of behind the scenes improvements to make it faster, cleaner, and easier to use: https://beitmenotyou.online
Thanks for your patience while I’ve been in the creative cave. I’ll be sharing the results soon, and I cannot wait to show you what’s coming.
What’s one thing you wish more websites did better, speed, readability, navigation, or something else?
#SelfHosting #IndieWeb #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #WebDesign #Privacy #Decentralisation #BeItMeNotYou
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"html": "<p>I just set up my new /uses page. Check it out!</p><p><a href=\"https://lzon.ca/uses\"><span>https://</span><span>lzon.ca/uses</span><span></span></a> </p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/indieweb\">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/smallweb\">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/rss\">#<span>rss</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging\">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/personalweb\">#<span>personalweb</span></a></p>",
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New feature on my personal website! A save button!
No-one asked for it but it's yet another feature hidden in my bloated footer anyway!
https://villepreux.net/blog/notes/2026-01-19-18-30
💾︎ #webdev #posse #indieweb
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