Trying to log into Eventbrite, it says:

"This user's password must change before logging in."

And sends me back to the login dialog.

It must change, all by itself. I see. What am I supposed to do here?

Meta says they now have half a billion monthly active users on #Threads.

This is about 100x that of #Bluesky, and about 500x that of #Mastodon, at only about 3 years old. How do *you* explain this?

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/meta-launching-new-features-500-million-monthly-threads-users/

Ronna? Quetta?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix#List_of_SI_prefixes

This includes Mastodon and Bluesky and all of the rest.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/social-media-to-be-banned-for-under-16s-in-landmark-government-move-to-givekids-their-childhood-back

RE: https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/116755228311993684

I've long thought #chatbots are the perfect #disinformation delivery vehicle.

Tim Chambers and Will Robinson have the proof that this is so, based on a recent election.

This may not even be intentional at this point, but it's bad enough already, and once this is weaponized... Scary times!

Create your own LLM for less than $100, end to end. Even if you don’t, a great description for how it is done.

https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat

If you were in charge of social media industrial policy in the European Union, and you had complete freedom to decide, what would it be?

Or what would your advice be to them?

#EU #SocialMedia #Policy #FediForum #FediForumFriday

"Trump says attacks on Iran will resume".

It's amateur hour. Actually, the amateurs would be embarrassed to be seen in this company.

And those are the people who have power over life and death. Directly, kinetically, from the fallout: lack of fuels and fertilizer and sulfur and the list goes on.

"What do you think of humanity?" -- "Oh, it would be a very good idea". With apologies to Ghandi.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-israel

Actually this is a better photo.

Another excellent support experience with Prusa, the 3D printer company. Chat:

Them: how can I help you?
Me: here is my problem.
Them: here is the answer. And here are links for more background info.
Me: thank you.

Why can’t it be like that everywhere?

From today's Open Social Awards ceremony.

Interesting analysis by @DePemig

https://blog.gillesdutilh.com/2026/06/mutuals-are-not-friends-2/

Newsmast has a really good and intriguing post out today describing where they see the Open Social Web going in the next 12-18 months.

"Connected community spaces" -- I so very much agree that's the right direction. IMHO the "global townsquare" was always somewhere between a bad idea and a logical impossibility, whether it was said by the would-be commercial platform overlords or the decentralizers. Time to move forward to better and more valuable scenarios.

Read it: https://www.blog-pat.ch/connected-community-spaces/

Few people appears to appreciate the depth of strategic disaster that a certain "stable genius" has gotten the US -- and the world -- in, with respect to the Iranian regime.

I'm not a historian, and not a strategist, and perhaps there are historical examples for similar disasters, but I kind of doubt it. (Anybody have a pointer?)

(And that's beyond the illegality, and inhumanity, etc etc)

Two pieces of evidence:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/06/01/iran-us-trade-strikes-deal-end-war-remains-elusive/

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/oil-inventory-exxon-strait-hormuz-iran-war.html

I hadn't realized until just now that Blacksky's Acorn project is named after the community in The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.

That's kinda amazing actually. And a testament to how far we have come as a "civilization" if it feels appropriate to name our new tech projects after the (temporary?!?) refuge of the protagonists in a dystopian hellscape.

https://blackskyweb.xyz/introducing-acorn-community-infrastructure-that-grows-with-you/

This is so "cool". Mailchimp keeps sending me marketing e-mails. Given what Mailchimp does, it seems they should be really good at it.

When I click on the "unsubscribe" link in their e-mails, I get 404 Not Found. And have been for weeks.

This is, I think, the "melting pot" at its best. Somebody went out of their way to research and making voting as welcoming to immigrated citizens as they could. In the outrage that much of the US is committing all the time these days, this is heartening.

I don't even know many (most!) of these languages / scripts!

(A sign showing the direction of the next polling place for the California primary election.)

I can't really blame anybody in particular here, except that maybe my 404 pages on my server should not ever be cached (in which case that would be me) but still not nice, world!

This is not nice. Updated my #Mastodon install. Funny Javascript error in the browser. Went on a wild goose chase. Finally found it:

My browser -- #Vivaldi -- had a 404 HTML file in its cache that the Mastodon Javascript thought came live from the API as JSON. It probably got there when my open Mastodon site in the browser attempted to call the Mastodon API while I was updating the server, and got a 404 page instead that ended up in the cache and wouldn't leave.

Next week the very first Open Social award will be awarded to a deserving winner. And two deserving runners-up.

How I know they are deserving? I'm on the jury but I'm not telling yet :-)

To find out, consider going to the ceremony on June 5 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

https://dezwijger.nl/nieuws/dont-miss-out-the-evening-programmes-of-public-spaces-conference-2026