Noooooo! I made a huge mistake. I watched a few minutes of the deranged racist‘s AI ramblings in the Ruby World keynote on YouTube – and now my feed is full of that guy … 🤪

I‘d better go watch that Cumberbatch documentary now! 🌍🌱

https://youtu.be/h3mRsvFmWi0

The new Queens of the Stone Age album (scheduled for full release on October 30) is coming together really nicely so far! 👏 For instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAOIpDUDGX4

Thank you so much to everyone who came to my talk at @getkirby’s very first #KirbyKonf! It was a joy to share some thoughts on The Web We Make with such a welcoming audience. 🤗

Here are the slides:

https://noti.st/matthiasott/IQWsYY/the-web-we-make

Thanks again for listening, chatting, and making these two days so special. What a lovely community! 🖤

Ordentlich verkloppt. 😬 #GERGRE

Super important talk by @mrchrisadams at #kirbykonf about how to get to a fossil free Internet. 🌱🌍👏

Good morning, #kirbykonf! ☀️🤗

Aaaaaand off to @getkirby Konf! 🤗🔥🎉 #kirbykonf #kirbykonf2026

Ooohh. 🔥😁

“You bore a tunnel through the trouble, that's informative stuff
It's moving forward instead of assuming forward is up.”

https://youtu.be/wFtK8qsGRaA?is=cbaItsVUdZvcPHyp

Less than a week until I get to meet the @getkirby community at the very first #KirbyKonf! Can’t wait! 🤗🖤

Sneak peek (🤫):

Screw the narrative. Don’t believe the scare. The Web will never die. Love seeing you all sharing and publishing content on here – and on your personal sites and newsletters! 💚✊

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jimmac/117290856883202034

This has been on my mind as well. Wouldn’t it be great if the AI Wild West – especially the open-weight models – got regulated, and there were only a few very responsible, very trustworthy companies allowed to proceed working with this incredibly dangerous technology? Wouldn’t that be great for their future stock prices, too?

Couldn’t agree more to @kevinpowell here. And I’m really sorry for @geoff who is doing such great work at @csstricks. 🧡 What DigitalOcean does here not only sucks – it is also massively damaging their brand reputation in the community. Not cool! 😕👎

https://youtu.be/9_upvxCAUzM

I’d still suggest a light EQ dip around 500 Hz and a high shelf boost around 8-10 kHz to help compensate for the Royal Albert Hall’s challenging acoustics and bring the solo violin forward a bit more. 😉

Flora Willson calls it “flawless musical beauty” in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/04/berlin-philharmonic-kirill-petrenko-augustin-hadelich-prom-review-beethoven-scriabin

🎻 People of the UK! (And people who know about get_iplayer!) You still have the chance to hear an extraordinary performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto by Augustin Hadelich and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded at the Royal Albert Hall and available on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030jmq

How on earth did Dario find out that my secret plan was to take over the entire Internet in about 6–12 months with a giant, persistent ottnet…? 😏

Back home 🏡 from Denmark 🇩🇰

“That traditional question of political theory, 'Who should rule?', which begs for an authoritarian answer such as 'the best', or 'the wisest', or 'the people', or 'the majority', […] should be replaced by a completely different question such as 'How can we organize our political institutions so that bad or incompetent rulers (whom we should try not to get, but whom we so easily might get all the same) cannot do too much damage?'”

—Karl Popper

“Excellence is not born out of committee, and Omarchy is not a democracy. It's a benevolent dictatorship in the grand tradition of Linux, Ruby, and Rails. The dictator's job is to listen to everyone, but make the call according to their intuition, vision, and experience.”

Oh come on, David.

Auto ic

https://www.404media.co/wordpress-automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-put-on-leave-of-absence/

Excuse my French here – but with a late grandfather who co-founded a local SA group and was later let off as a “Mitläufer” thanks to a Jewish lawyer, as I recently learned, I’m done with nuance when it comes to this idiotic, wrong, and destructive way of looking at the world and life in general. #nazisraus #noAfD

Current status. 😌

Fuck the AfD and everyone who voted for them today. You should be ashamed of yourself. Fascist losers. #nazisraus #noAfD

I was in microphone heaven yesterday … 😍

Now that’s a very interesting combination … and it makes for a very interesting conversation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf5oqGOCRCM

What the … why? … 😳 #a11y

We’re now enjoying Beethoven‘s Violin Concerto live at home, as Kid A1 has decided to practice it “just for fun” ☺️

107 GB … ? 🧐

InDesign is also falling apart now, it seems. Laggy af on an M1 Max with 32 GB of RAM, and the undo command is regularly breaking (!). And it’s always the same story: people report these bugs to Adobe, but they just persist for months and months. 🤨
https://community.adobe.com/questions-671/undo-command-not-working-indesign-2025-893186

RE: https://mastodon.social/@btconf/117132966889928734

There is so much to love about this talk: James, his energy, his messages … Being in the room for it live at #btconf was something special, but even if you missed it (why?!? 😉), watching it now comes pretty close.