# things internet (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover things internet. Page: Feed: --- ## [Interesting Things on the Internet: June 19th 2026 Edition](https://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/links/interesting_things_on_the_internet_june_19th_2026_edition/) _2026-06-19 · Adrian · McFilter_ Read This If You’re New and Trying to Find Your Way. “I don’t know how things will turn out, but I am committed to something other than this — the current structure and state of this world. We can live differently. I don’t think we have to live the way we currently do. I think something else is possible.” It’s 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick.… ## [Interesting Things on the Internet: April 16th 2026 Edition](https://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/links/interesting_things_on_the_internet_april_16th_2026_edition/) _2026-04-16 · Adrian · McFilter_ These used to get scheduled to be published on the Monday after I started drafting them, and would then include whatever I’d collected over the following week. Since I migrated the blog to Jekyll I’ve lost the scheduled post option. At some point I’ll reinstate that, but for now it’s interrupted the posting of Interesting Things as I keep collecting-but-not-publishing. This is a note (to me… ## [Interesting Things on the Internet: March 23rd 2026 Edition](https://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/links/interesting_things_on_the_internet_march_23rd_2026_edition/) _2026-03-23 · Adrian · McFilter_ I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.. All this biometrics in place of passwords and the like is a terrible idea. And this is why we need the private options to be just as convenient to use as the ones harvesting our data. The unlikely story of an e-mail time machine. Turns out people, not corporations or capitalism, are our bests bet for the long-term. Who knew? Who… ## [The conversation is the outcome](https://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/thinking/the_conversation_is_the_outcome/) _2026-02-28 · Adrian · McFilter_ Reading Jo’s notes on her Cards Against Technology idea I was wondering about what situations I’d deploy them, which led me into wider thoughts about group exercises and my natural aversion to them. At least in the ways that I tend to encounter them. ## [Interesting Things on the Internet: February 2nd 2026 Edition](https://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/links/interesting_things_on_the_internet_february_2nd_2026_edition/) _2026-02-02 · Adrian · McFilter_ The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a thirty-five year mistake. When I first clicked through to this video I was somewhat put off when I spotted it was two-and-a-half hours long. However! Casey Muratori is an entertaining and engaging speaker, and it’s an excellent tour through the history of computing languagesback to the 60s pulling in all manner of source material. Well worth a watch. Why there’s no… ## [Blog All Dog-eared Pages: Hacking Diversity by Christina Dunbar-Hester](https://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/books/blog_all_dogeared_pages_hacking_diversity_by_christina_dunbarhester/) _2026-01-01 · Adrian · McFilter_ Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures by Christina Dunbar-Hester (on OpenLibrary) ## [Interesting Things on the Internet: December 29th 2025 Edition](https://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/links/interesting_things_on_the_internet_december_29th_2025_edition/) _2025-12-29 · Adrian · McFilter_ Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? I read this with (somewhat smug, because I wasn’t just holidaying there, but I was also part of the problem) memories of life in Torino mixed with a view of the Beatles-football-stag-and-hen-dos commodification of Liverpool. It would be nice if someone other than the property developers got to shape the city. The world is something that we make ” I’m just saying that… ## [Interesting Things on the Internet: December 1st 2025 Edition](https://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/links/interesting_things_on_the_internet_december_1st_2025_edition/) _2025-12-01 · Adrian · McFilter_ You probably shouldn’t block AI bots from your website. An excellent polemic. The Museum in a Box website has been getting hammered by bots for a while now; I should install iocaine to improve matters for the humans who visit. The American Pay Cut That Gave Us Obama and Trump, Twice. I haven’t checked the numbers, but the time-taken-to-afford-X framing seems a sensible approach. And I think this,… ## [Blog All Dog-eared Pages: Changemakers by Jane Holgate and John Page](https://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/books/blog_all_dogeared_pages_changemakers_by_jane_holgate_and_john_page/) _2025-11-30 · Adrian · McFilter_ Changemakers: Radical Strategies for Social Movement Organising by Jane Holgate and John Page was an interesting read about organising. A much more traditional activist perspective than any of the work I do. Plenty of food for thought on topics of building power, developing successive and additional leaders, and more. ## [Blog All Dog-eared Pages: Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield](https://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/books/blog_all_dogeared_pages_radical_technologies_by_adam_greenfield/) _2025-11-29 · Adrian · McFilter_ Another from the overlooked-drafts pile. Seems like this just stalled on me writing the intro blurb. ## [Open directory of blogs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PcutMnM96p1t) _2025-11-29 · **Sponsored**_ Drop URLs or OPML — get per-blog pages plus machine-readable JSON, OPML, text ## [Hello world.](https://blso.com/posts/hello-world) _2025-04-17 · blso.com_ Finally a nice place to write things on the internet.