Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival, by Chris Horton observer.co.uk/news/interna...

ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.

- cooperative publishing models that return ownership and governance to scholarly communities - institutional repositories that enable open dissemination without reliance on commercial publishers - refund University Press journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

According to the government “we are waiting to hear from the US if the US broke international law when the US hijacked President Maduro and flew him to the US”. So that’s OK then.

'The prime minister removed his tongue from Trump’s shoe just long enough to make a brief statement and then got back onto his knees' www.normalisland.co.uk/p/sir-keir-s...

He's the FIFA peace award winner ⚽️ after all ⚽️

And all are aged, boring, white men, indeed 🙋🏽

In celebration of Mamdani's first day in office, the map from our 2016 NYC atlas celebrating Queens as the most linguistically diverse place on earth. (800 languages spoken in NYC, according to NY's Endangered Language Institute, which collaborated with us on this map.

So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation. This is madness.

If people admire you, they put your name on buildings. If you have to do it yourself, well… that’s different.

“Taking the data and turning it into a story” always makes it seem as if the data itself spontaneously appeared from nowhere. It too appeared from a story, frequently untold but critical to its birth.

The deeper point of debating the energy and water demands of data centres is to pose the question of re-socialising energy and water resources for the common good 🔋🌊✊

Excellent work 🙏🏽 thanks @techpolicypress.bsky.social techpolicy.press/top-30-most-...

for example, in switching their browsers from Google’s Chrome to Firefox or from Elon Musk’s X to Mastodon www.euractiv.com/news/german-...

“What if this had been an earthquake? You would have thousands of robotaxis blocking the road.” apnews.com/article/waym...

Scientific slop arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Backlash coywolf.com/news/product...

Altman’s hype has always hinged less on today’s capabilities than on a philosophical tomorrow www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...

itsfoss.com/firefox-base... I'm on Zen browser now after years and years of Firefox

Backlash. Nice word. nymag.com/intelligence...

This below 👇🏽 I have the same position on AI-plastered software, a sort of AI-washing -- whether you want it or not doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Something to keep your eye on. Popular discourse is starting to turn against AI, so new frameworks are being built to continue selling it. We are about to see a flood of media that qualifies AI: “Gen AI” is bad and overhyped but “predictive” or “analytic AI” is responsible and good. +

A trustworthy AI browser is an oxymoron www.theverge.com/tech/845216/...

I am asking for a human at Apple to review this case... Thanks Linux 🙏🏽 hey.paris/posts/appleid/

The rampant data sharing fueled by online tracking has serious consequences. Privacy Badger blocks online tracking to prevent your browsing data from being used against you. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

sloppy copyright infringement

getting a little screwed up?

Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.

Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.

McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did' Comments have been turned off on YouTube

I can't imagine how mind-numbing it must be to type prompts into an AI bot over and over to try and get something legibile out of it for your stupid ass advertising gig. My brain is dribbling out of my ears just thinking about it

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org

Zen Browser will surprise you! 😉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auqu...

It starts always somewhere... www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/m...

The emotional context evaporates; the data point remains 👍🏼

Billions of people scroll every day. But what’s actually going viral on social media? 🤷‍♀️ We asked the platforms for one simple thing: their most-viewed posts. They all said no 🙃 Help us demand transparency now: mzl.la/3M8Eh9L @algorithmwatch.org @scg-uzh.bsky.social @lessurligneurs.bsky.social

The unceremonious disbanding of DOGE (which, among other things, aimed to remake the government with AI) is a good time to revisit our policy brief rebutting the myth that AI can or will deliver efficiency for the public. www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

“the Ponzi guy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...

"We have a 2000s housing bubble level of financial engineering on top of a 1920s level of private unregulated lending on top of something bigger than a 1990s internet (or 1870s railroad) level of technology and infrastructure build-out." prospect.org/2025/11/19/a...

See the 2025 annual report from the Coalition for Independent Technology Research techpolicy.press/the-future-o...

These bills strip local governments of the ability to effectively manage the infrastructure built on local streets and in neighborhoods arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

As Europe stands at a critical moment for its digital future, Mozilla is joining a diverse coalition calling on the EU to champion open source. Check out our 5-point plan for an open, trusted, and autonomous European tech ecosystem: assets.mozilla.net/pdf/Open_Let...

📣Pas endavant per a la democràcia digital! L’Associació Decidim ha creat el Comitè d’Institucions Públiques, amb el suport de 6 institucions d’arreu del 🌍 Aquest comitè reforça Decidim com a infraestructura digital pública i referma el valor dels béns digitals comuns decidim.org/blog/2025-11...

New review paper - open access via Open Science Framework pre-print From Smart Urbanism to the Data-Driven City #AIurbanism #post-smartcity #smartmentality #smarturbanism #technologicalsolutionism osf.io/preprints/so...

New book chapter - Open Access via Open Science Framework pre-print: Platform Citizenship: Between Consumerism and Citizen Power #digitalgovernance #platformcitizenship #scaffoldcitizenparticipation #smartcity doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Ubuntu now offers 15 years of support! 😲 itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-...

From the 1st web page to today’s sprawling internet, the web has reshaped how we live. 🌐 Hear Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle on the Future Knowledge #podcast discuss the web’s rapid growth & why preserving it matters for generations to come. 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...

A techno tale from the household... www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...