Jon F

AvonVilla@aus.social

Born in the 60s. Living on the South coast of NSW Australia. Former journalist, now full time carer for my disabled son. Music maker, dreamer of dreams. I like: Electronic (and all) music, science fiction/fantasy. Rollerskating, swimming, bushwalking. Degrowth, atheistic post-doom, neo-Luddism; peace, love & anarchy!I deleted my big tech accounts, I'm now pure fedi. Windows, Android, Apple etc., are expunged from my life, replaced by Linux et. al.Posts auto-delete after 1 week.

Posts

Post #4319562
The power line outside my house is a good place for supermodels to make love to the camera.
Post #4319561
The Vincent Namatjira book arrived. It is lavish, full of surprises, laughs, truth. @sister_ratched #VincentNamatjira
Post #4319560
Yeah, that newfangled AI thingummy is so great for journalism.
Post #4319559
I hate winter but I choose to categorise July as its last month. August is something else, a sort of pre-spring. The lengthening days show summer&#39;s approach is accelerating. Bring it on! I&#39;m talking southern hemisphere, of course. https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/australia/sydney?month=8&amp;year=2026
Post #4319558
I&#39;m pretty sure we are doomed. https://www.smh.com.au/national/never-skilling-high-school-rush-to-ai-threatens-to-create-a-generation-of-dunces-20260728-p60j7r.html
Post #4319557
Drought in England, yikes. Might as well stay in Australia. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/flash-drought-england-uk-areas-july-rainfall-b3023904.html
Post #4319556
My shirt.
Post #4319555
I&#39;ve embarked on an ambitious project to create a sort of acid house version of &quot;Canto Ostinato&quot; by Simeon ten Holt. I&#39;m about 10% into it now, grinding through the score, which is in the key of D flat, a challenge for me with only rudimentary skills at reading music. I remember a story about S&#39;Express acid guru Mark Moore taking Philip Glass to a nightclub, so it&#39;s not a new idea to mix classical minimalism and techno. But I am keeping the 10...
Post #4319554
I was horrified/entertained by the &#39;Grand Designs&#39; episode on TV here last night. A British tech bro discovers he can&#39;t afford his obscene &quot;castle&quot;, when his credit runs out after borrowing millions. His main product seems to be a light switch, part of a smart home system which remains largely vapourware. His business and his grand design frequently mention &quot;sustainability&quot;, while wasting massive amounts of concrete, water, electricit...
Post #4100658
Via the National Secular Lobby, an important reminder to answer the religion question carefully when completing your census form. @SecularLobby@mastodon.au https://censusnotreligious.org.au/ #census #census2026
Post #4051402
I like keeping old tech as long as possible. My desktop PC is a Dell Optiplex 9020, which I intercepted on its way to e-waste from a local primary school. Maybe a 2013 model. I just did a bit of minor maintenance, replacing the CMOS battery. Now I don't have to manually select UEFI mode at every boot. Previously I souped it up a bit, adding a SSD. There was no slot for an additional device and I wanted to keep the big drive, so the SSD just floats between the drive bay and the CPU fan. Seem...
Post #3536273
I'm ambivalent about lots of things, but I guess I'm finally all in on Mastodon, now that I've bought the T-shirt. (Someone re-gifted me a print-on-demand voucher, and the package came this morning). #mastodon
Post #3459395
I'm buoyed to read this morning that Paul Hogan called Pauline Hanson an outrageous racist, and Trump a stupid boofhead. It's also good to see that Hanson's weird and sinister "monoculture" speech has been followed by a fall in her poll numbers... not far enough, but it's still good. Also, coalition numbers still in the toilet, ha! #wellDoneAngus https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-news-live-australian-man-charged-with-murder-in-thailand-state-and-territory-debt...
Post #3032047
A big tech company releases an AI tool and it's really cheap. Bosses tell everyone to start using it, and they get rid of staff because they are told AI will take up the slack. Then the AI company puts the prices up. By how much? Someone on reddit posted this as an example. What even is that, 15,000%?!?! Some of the other examples there are even worse. Turns out humans are cheaper and better after all. It's so extreme it looks like criminal fraud.
Post #1703121
Autumn is very...summery this year. It looks like this will continue into May. It&#39;s nice but also worrying at the same time. #weather