My solar-powered and self-hosted website
[Dries Buytaert]"I'm excited to share an experiment I've been working on: a solar-powered, self-hosted website running on a Raspberry Pi."Lovely!The key seems to be a Voltaic 50-watt panel and 18...
View ArticleFar-Right Extremists Embrace Environmentalism to Justify Violent...
[Abrahm Lustgarten at ProPublica]"For a generation, conservatives — not just the far right, which Crusius appeared to identify with — had propelled the notion that climate change was a hoax fabricated...
View ArticleYou should be using an RSS reader
[Cory Doctorow]Cory Doctorow discusses how he reads writers like Molly White:"This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant, far more accessible...
View ArticleRepublicans, young adults trust news on social media about as much as news...
[Kirsten Eddy at Pew Research Center]The lede is a little buried here behind some pretty shocking top-line stats:"Today, 37% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say they have a lot of...
View ArticleUS startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’
[Hannah Devlin, Tom Burgis, David Pegg and Jason Wilson at The Guardian]Quite a disturbing new startup coming to light in The Guardian:“The footage appears to show experimental genetic selection...
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Helping to build the open social web
As regular readers know, I care a lot about growing the open social web: the rapidly-growing decentralized network of interoperable social platforms that includes Mastodon, Threads, Ghost, Flipboard,...
View ArticleOnline Safety and the “Great Decentralization”– The Perils and Promises of...
[Samantha Lai and Yoel Roth at Tech Policy Press]"Decentralized social media platforms offer the promise of alternative governance structures that empower consumers and rebuild social media on a...
View ArticleTwelve Million Deportations
[Timothy Snyder]Timothy Snyder on the seriousness of the Trump-Vance deportation plans and their implications:"Such an enormous deportation will requires an army of informers. People who denounce...
View ArticleHow elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns
[Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Audrey Ash, Kyung Lah, Anna-Maja Rappard, Casey Tolan, Lou Robinson and Byron Manley at CNN]"More than 1,000 reports filed with government agencies...
View ArticleInside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics
[Joseph Cox at 404 Media]Without needing a warrant, police can track ordinary peoples' smartphone locations - including people who travel out of state to get abortion procedures. The implications are...
View ArticleIt's Now Illegal to Post Fake AI-Generated Product Reviews by People Who...
[Maggie Harrison Dupré at Futurism]File this under "good, but I can't believe this wasn't already banned":"Sweeping changes to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines aimed at cleaning up the...
View ArticleSupernatural Detective's Field Guide
[Jon Hicks]I love this sort of thing:"Usborne's The Detective’s Handbook and The Guide to the Supernatural captivated my imagination in equal measure. This site is an imagined combination of those...
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The web and I
Mathew Ingram has posted some smart reflections inspired by Netscape’s thirtieth birthday:I don’t think an ancient serf seeing an illustrated manuscript for the first time in the 11th century would...
View ArticleBluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users
[Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users]An important announcement from Bluesky:"We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital...
View Article"The Kids Are Too Soft"
[Anne Helen Petersen]"The best indication of the health of an industry like journalism isn’t who excels there, because the answer is obvious: work robots who come from some sort of family money. To...
View ArticleThe United States of Abortion Mazes
[Jan Diehm and Michelle Pera-McGhee at The Pudding]"To illustrate how difficult it is to get abortion care, we built a maze for each state where the difficulty is calculated by the state’s abortion...
View ArticleThe Washington Post says it will not endorse a candidate for president
[Manuel Roig-Franzia and Laura Wagner at The Washington Post]"An endorsement of Harris had been drafted by Post editorial page staffers but had yet to be published, according to two people who were...
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There's an election coming up and I can't believe we're still debating it.
Heads up: this one’s for American citizens. The rest of you can pass this one over, or peek at it for a shot of either schadenfreude or fear, depending on your predilictions and assumptions. It’s your...
View ArticleBugs, breakthroughs and BlueSky
[Ghost]"Last week we officially started the ActivityPub private beta and sent invitations to our first 3 publishers to start testing things out. This was the first big milestone we've been working...
View ArticleNothing, not even news, can be exempt from accountability
[Heather Bryant]A characteristically sharp piece on the Washington Post's spiked Presidential endorsement and ensuing fallout from Heather Bryant:"Good journalism is not unique to the Washington Post....
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