The creation of Threads based on open source may make it even harder for independent platforms like Mastodon to educate less knowledgeable Internet users that it’s an open source platform more appropriate than Threads (a closed digital garden). They may say: hey, after all, Threads is open source too. A clever move by Meta. Likewise with AI. After all, Llama AI is also open source (but we know it’s part of big tech company). Always one step ahead of the community’s ability to pull others out from under the power of big tech.

The world’s most famous naturalist turns 99. I love and respect him for the way he talks about nature and how he makes people fall in love with it.

Just look:

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Happy birthday, sir Attenborough!

Human consistency and persistence in action sometimes amaze and embarrass me. They are impressive. Like the habit of one American woman who has kept a diary since… 1936.

She turned 100 years old. Have been writing for 90 years and have no intention of stopping it. Ok, these are not long entries. But still. Amazing.

I recently wrote a few words about how I adore bloggers who boast a tenure of 10, 15, 20 years.

This woman tops them all. An amazing story reported by Cathy Free in The Washington Post.

Evie Riski from Lakota, N.D. and her amazing story about diaries since Jan. 1, 1936. And this…

You can leave Twitter/X and move to Bluesky or Mastodon. You can leave Facebook and don’t miss it or possibly move to LinkedIn. You can leave Messenger/WhatsApp and move to Signal. You can leave Instagram and move to Pixelfed.

But you can’t leave YouTube. Although there are alternatives in the IndieWeb and open source world. But in reality, in this case, there is no good alternative.

I take the train every day. Twice in a day, because place where I work is about 50 km from my home. So traveling is my everyday routine. And I love it. I love to take the train and what becoming after that.

For me the train station is a some metaphysical gate that takes me to another world.

To the world where everything makes simplier. Where everything has its place. I can sitting near the window and look straight ahead. This shows how little is needed it takes to enjoy life - looking straight the window, sink into the landscape and disappear. This is the way to escape from madness of everyday life.

During all night from Sunday to Monday was heavy rain on my town and region. Consequence: small local flood. The next day I saw small deer who running by the flooded field in a village.

It was so beautiful view.

And I realised about it that we did similar in the past. We’ve run by the woods and meadows. We’ve lived in harmony with nature and it was great for both. of them.

Now our civilization and technological progress in many areas of life are in contradiction with nature.

We moved away from nature for the development of civilization.