If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

They keep telling us that progress is inexhorable but why are all the interesting computers in the past www.inexhibit.com/case-studies...

Weird analogy but studying political theory is essentially like building a PC. You get obsessive about researching components (i.e. traditions/axioms) and once you've settled on something you'll be surprised at how quickly you stop caring. Because once you have what you need, why keep shopping?

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

FWIW I agree... I'm co-author of ActivityPub and I wrote about combining ActivityPub and DIDs in 2017 github.com/WebOfTrustIn... (Also appears in the Bluesky proposal I co-authored with Jay back in the day, amongst other things gitlab.com/-/snippets/2... )

Wut

Remember the "race to 5G" when it was essential to give telecoms anything they wanted (deregulation, tax cuts, subsides, whatever) to "defeat the dastardly Chinese," then when the U.S. ended up with shittier more expensive 5G suddenly lawmakers just stopped talking about it? good times

The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack. Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

One of the best critiques of the Abundance fad (as @resnikoff.bsky.social points out) is that it's literally just this meme but reversed. publiccomment.blog/p/the-groups...

This entire article is just one massive testament to the pathological stupidity of MBAs. fortune.com/2025/08/17/c...

Just read the newest American Affairs issue and its so slop. Half of this has nothing to do with industrial policy and is just spitting out Substack-tier punditry on the usual rotation of culture-war topics.

Unless your social media platform is not just theoretically -- but also practically and actually decentralized -- it's not resistant to enshittification, period.

say what you will about skynet but at least it kept things platonic

Internet Forums are alive and well, and I have tried to create the most extensive list of active, interesting or useful niche communities I could find. Here is that list, for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/best-active-...

@afrocicero.bsky.social On the odd chance you've read this essay ("What Was Wrong with Dred Scott, What's Right About Brown"), I wanted to ask what your thoughts were on it. From what I've read, it takes a pretty interesting angle. scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcont...

When my friend asked for recommendations for FOSS audiobook players and I suggested "either Cozy or Voice" I took a step back and realized we have a problem on our hands. notthesolution.substack.com/p/brief-and-...

Pratik Chougule wants to make wagering on politics as popular and legal as wagering on sports. Is that all in good fun—or a bad bet for democracy?

A 9500 word Premium newsletter: I have discovered that OpenAI and Anthropic have both jacked up prices for their largest customers, with Anthropic's changes directly harming Cursor, their largest customer, who have had to change their pricing as a result. www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-an...

Nothing is going to contribute to the rise of antisemitism faster than the actions of this administration.

Xbox producer recommends laid off workers should use AI to 'help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss': aftermath.site/xbox-microsoft...

Reddit as a website unironically is the greatest contributor to online radicalization and I completely stand by that take.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

The data presented here aligns with what I've seen anecdotally and suspected personally. The vacuum being left by religion as the primary definer of personal/communal identity is rapidly being filled by politics and it's contributing to an atmosphere of total barbarism.

"I outsourced my personal enrichment to a robot so that I can sit around doing nothing at peak efficiency. CHECKMATE, LUDDITES"

From my experience, whenever you're discussing or explaining any academic subject, there's usually three things you're trying to balance: simplicity, conciseness, and profundity. Problem is you only get to pick at most two before you're jeopardizing the other.

@srirachavodka.bsky.social Any chance you could open DMs or let me know of a good way to get in contact with you? I'd like to ask some questions.

Weird how the strategy is to get everyone using it and then figure out the use cases. Seems inverted. 🤷🏿‍♂️

I automatically do not trust any YouTuber who sells courses. I have yet to see one who does this and it didn't turn out they were hiding some shady stuff.

Me, last year www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/

My thoughts on the Take It Down Act as someone who used to handle copyright takedown (and other) requests at Google. 🧵 As many have said, this law will be used as the ultimate weapon for the Trump Admin to censor speech from their political opponents (and more). www.theverge.com/policy/62497...

Everyone knows the internet is full of distractions, but even the content that's meant to help us self-improve and learn productivity can turn into a distraction. "Productivity porn" is a genre of content which makes you feel as if you're accomplishing stuff without ever actually doing the stuff.

Bari Weiss’ “The Free Press” is teaming up with Trump’s DC prosecutor to go after Wikipedia’s nonprofit status to pressure it to be more pro-Israel. Bari could not have chosen a more Orwellian term for her authoritarian news outlet taking a wrecking ball to Western institutions on behalf of Israel

As with every AI strategy there is no plan beyond "something must be done, this is something, therefore it must be done." I'm guessing that this relationship will quietly expire without renewal, unless OpenAI collapses first, which is not that unlikely.

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This is frankly just true and something people should be willing to wrestle with. The power and sense of authority we lack in relation to cis men, we're enabled to seek out within the category of womanhood itself, and this often includes taking a 'noblesse oblige' attitude towards trans inclusion.

Right after tariffs were announced, it was revealed that the government used ChatGPT to (inaccurately) calculate them. At the same time, we see people across all levels of society doing the same in their daily lives. Why is our society so fixated on this fantasy of machines thinking on our behalf?

I think the most jarring thing learning about HPMOR for me is how many normal, everyday grown men were fans of what is a Harry Potter fanfiction. Honestly makes me think the average adult man/woman isn't actually that more advanced in their taste than the average teenage boy/girl.

A mythical spike in organized retail theft led states to OK a taxpayer-funded police shopping spree for electronic surveillance technology - mission creep at its worst, EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @theappeal.org.

Pebble is back! Back in 2012, Pebble was my on-ramp to wearable technology, and over the next 4 years it evolved into a proper smartwatch platform that never lost its distinctive personality (until Fitbit bought it). Now, it's back with an open-sourced OS and new hardware! store.repebble.com

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Newsletter: The real threat isn't AI using open knowledge — it's AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free. The future of free and open access isn't saying “wait, not like that” — it’s saying "yes, like that, but under fair terms”. www.citationneeded.news/free-and-ope...

Whistleblower Wynn-Williams: as it was touting free speech, Meta worked behind the scenes to build a censorship system for China (including helping w surveillance of Hong Kong FB users & quashing Guo Wengui's dissent). @naominix.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

USCIS demanding visa applicants’ social handles means people “could be chilled from sharing their opinions because they are concerned they are going to be vetted & denied immigration benefits such as naturalization," EFF’s Saira Hussain told @newsweek.com.

GOG was made with the promise of doing for PC gaming what Steam wouldn't: allowing you to purchase games you actually own. So, why is it then that they go out of their way to snub the one operating system that you truly do own?

A major pet peeve of mine is when devs name their software after a dictionary word, like "Lollipop" or "Element" or "Fandom". It comes off as overly trend-chasey and it makes things impossible to look up unless you're popular enough to make it work. Just let words be words instead of brands.

Had a discussion about this with some others the last time this kind of survey made the rounds. One of the things that immediately stuck out to me was how every group's estimation always seemed to hover around 30%. After we dug into it some, it began to make sense as to why.

I feel like the weekly newsletter thing might not be giving me enough time to properly dig into a topic and causing me to churn out pieces with less research and depth to them. I'm considering right now whether or not to continue with the format or to say screw it and switch things up again.

Current Affairs magazine (@currentaffairs.bsky.social) shows you don't need paywalls for sustainability. 🧱 By embracing a model of free access and reader support, the publication is thriving without locking away knowledge. Learn how: blog.archive.org/2025/03/04/c...