Google and AI search are now dedicated to stripmining the whole web for Information. The personality, creativity, and connection of personal websites are, to them, pointless. But the old ways still work! A billion little fires still smolder out there. You just have to go find them yourself.

The worse Google gets, the more I find myself longing for a more primal internet experience: and the joy of clicking a link when you didn't know what awaited on the other side.

The threats from unchecked AI are real — worker displacement, corporate surveillance, invasion of privacy, environmental destruction, unmanned warfare. Today, a tiny number of billionaires are shaping the future of AI behind closed doors. That is unacceptable. That must change.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

LEGO posted this cute video for the launch of their first official #StarTrek set today #LEGO

AOL Instant Messenger. I saved backups of my AIM chats with my friends from the late ’90s and early 2000s, when we were in middle school and high school. Reading them now is so cringey.

Obama is the lynchpin of neoliberal failure: - no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis - no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture - no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber - refused to reform the filibuster - drone wars expanded

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

SimTower (1994). One of my favorite Sim games.

Trump isn’t governing. He's ruling like a king: threatening and prosecuting his opponents, attacking free speech, and dispatching soldiers to our cities.

Half Life's Black Mesa Research Facility

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

Labor productivity has more than doubled since the late 1960s. But workers’ compensation has barely budged. Yes. The economy is rigged in favor of the wealthy.

Long Covid has now overtaken Asthma in the US, as a cause of chronic health disease in children. There is currently no cure. Yet no action is being taken and Violet Affleck is very much on point.

Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands, by targeting the Russian oil industry: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time. Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

1997's prediction for the home of the future. An information furnace and a desktop in every room (via PC Magazine).

It is constantly frustrating to see how quickly almost every space we cohabit capitulates instantly to soothe racist, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ ideology.

Football Manager 2026 and Europa Universalis 5 coming out in the same week is absolutely sicko gamer Barbenheimer

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Yoot Tower (1998), the sequel to SimTower

this one goes into my personal top 10. a special game to me with many great memories

Back in my day, we had GameFAQs walkthroughs totally written out in simplified typewriter font. But some of these guides managed pictures with fancy ASCII art~. 🖥️ #rpg #jrpg

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

i don't know that the U.S. ever produced a finer general than U.S. Grant

You can Marie Kondo people too

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Me trying to explain to my mother why I'm slowly going back to physical media and storage.

The thing about PBS is that LeVar Burton was to me what MrBeast is to kids today.

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Picard civics tip: If there is one truth, one constant that history shows us over and over, it is that resistance is never futile.

SimTower. Still one of my favorite sim games of all time.

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

i am always blown away by just how far ahead of its time DS9 was. really some of the most remarkable feats of writing in TV history. and the kind of show that could only have worked with 30+ episode seasons

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

Half-Life (1998)

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

Toxic Masculinity is OUT! Ghost of Christmas Present Masculinity is IN! - Loud laughs - Roasted meats and spiced drinks - Hospitality to strangers - Living in the moment - Singing in public - Body positivity - Emotional generosity - Sick robes

SimTower (1994). Still a fun sim game today.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.

Firefox extension for those who are interested.

BLADE RUNNER was released 43 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the greatest science fiction movies ever made, and among director Ridley Scott’s greatest films, the story behind the scenes might have you taking the Voight-Kampf test… 1/40

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

WATCH: “This is f*cking kidnapping! That’s not your badge… I do have a little bit of education… get the f*ck out of here, racial profiling is illegal…” A brave woman melts ice 🧊 💪🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DLOWbEs...