Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty MPD cops for security
This is a racket, run by the police. #Democracy
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Friday links: December 26, 2025
An alternative Christmas; lies we tell ourselves.
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions
Tim's 2026 predictions are worth paying attention to - and form a great map for following where the open social web is going.
2025 in review: an interesting year
On fascism, technology, and finding the helpers.
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
"Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider."