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My OKRs for 2025
It’s December, somehow; the tail end of a stressful year, but also the precursor to another one that (and I’m sorry this isn’t the cheeriest prediction) somehow promises to be worse. Good times.How do...
View ArticleThese Tech Firms Won’t Tell Us If They Will Help Trump Deport Immigrants
[Sam Biddle at The Intercept]In the face of Trump's promise to conduct mass deportations, The Intercept set out to find out who in tech would be collaborators:"To see whether corporate America will...
View ArticleFTC Bans Location Data Company That Powers the Surveillance Ecosystem
[Joseph Cox at 404 Media]This is good to see:"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced sweeping action against some of the most important companies in the location data industry on Tuesday,...
View ArticleThreads takes an important baby step toward true fediverse integration
[Wes Davis at The Verge]Threads added a little more fediverse support:"While fediverse posts won’t show in feeds, Instagram head Adam Mosseri says their profile and posts do appear on Threads, and you...
View ArticleThe War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won.
[Annie Lowrey at The Atlantic]This older interview with Matthew Desmond is doing the rounds again, and I discovered it for the first time. If you haven't read his books Evicted, and Poverty, by...
View ArticleAustralia's ban on social media for teens is a mistake
[Mathew Ingram]As Mathew Ingram points out, Australia's new social media law is a well-intentioned error.He quotes an Australian human rights commission dissent which points out that:"For children in...
View ArticleThe publisher is always right
[Gabe Schneider in Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism, 2025]This is important:"It’s not so much a prediction as a necessity: We must abandon publications and platforms that fail to center our...
View ArticleReclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech
[Lindsey Lionheart O'Brien at Mozilla Distilled]This is a rebrand and reorientation for Mozilla:"Mozilla isn’t just another tech company — we’re a global crew of activists, technologists and builders,...
View ArticleThe “Bird and Baby” grows up: inside the new Eagle & Child
[The Oxford Clarion]I grew up in Oxford, and the Eagle and Child is one of my favorite pubs from back home. I'm also a longtime critic of certain big companies, Larry Ellison's Oracle among them. So...
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My most controversial opinion is that they should reboot Red Dwarf
Okay, I know, but hear me out.If you haven’t encountered it, Red Dwarf was an 80s / 90s science fiction comedy that has definitely aged interestingly, but still has a solid fanbase. Lister, a...
View ArticleHow Wall Street Billionaires Avoid Paying Medicare Taxes
[Paul Kiel at ProPublica]If we're going to improve on Medicare, we have to fund it - and it turns out that even today's Medicare taxes are being skipped out on by some of the wealthiest citizens in...
View ArticleWordPress parent company must stop blocking WP Engine, judge rules
[Emma Roth at The Verge]I think this was almost inevitable:"On Tuesday, a California District Court judge ordered Automattic to stop blocking WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org resources and...
View ArticleW3C Statement on Ethical Web Principles guides the community to build a...
[Daniel Appelquist and Yves Lafon at the W3C]These ethical web principles that guide the ongoing development of the platform are great. And this is spot on:"The web is a fundamental part of our lives,...
View ArticleOpen Source Veteran Launches Skyseed - First Ecosystem Fund and Incubator for...
[Skyseed]Really fascinating play:"Open Source veteran entrepreneur Peter Wang today launches Skyseed Fund, the world's first venture fund and incubator focused exclusively on Bluesky and its open...
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The open social web is the future of the internet. Here's why I'm excited.
The open social web puts control back in your hands. Unlike big social media platforms, it’s not run by a single company — it’s made up of independent, connected communities where you decide how and...
View Articlewhat people in the global majority need from networks
[Erin Kissane]Erin Kissane breaks down some interesting research about alternative social media platforms for social justice organizations in the Majority World: "The Engine Room team found that their...
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The Werd I/O Holiday Gift Guide
I’ve never done a holiday gift guide in any of my spaces before, but this year I was inspired by Kottke and a few other bloggers to create my own. As I write this, it’s literally December 13th; you’ve...
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