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Introducing Ringspace: A Proposal for the Human Web
taggart-tech.com · Dec 17
For months, I've been working on a project to demonstrate how we can preserve humanity on the web. It's finally ready for testing.
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
simonwillison.net · Dec 18
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page - Dhole Moments
soatok.blog · Dec 18
(with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from “content aggregators” like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally un…
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Phillip :usa_distress:
(@phillip) ·
Dec 18
🔁 @soatok:
The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page
(with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from "content aggregators" like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally unaware of the important but boring infrastructure work happening largely on the Fediverse, indie web, and other less-centralized communities. This is no accident. The rough consensus of these spaces has been strongly in favor of the…
http://soatok.blog/2025/12/17/the-revolution-will-not-make-the-hacker-news-front-page/
America faced domestic fascists before and buried that history
theconversation.com · Dec 17
Although thousands of Americans embraced fascist ideas during the interwar years, a new study examines why the US has had little appetite to remember that past.
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tend2wobble
(@tend2wobble) ·
Dec 18
🔁 @TheConversationUS:
When Americans insist "it can't happen here," they’re wrong. A sociologist who studies collective memory and identity examines how the U.S. forgot its own fascist movements and what that collective amnesia means today. https://theconversation.com/america-faced-domestic-fascists-before-and-buried-that-history-268978
in which our protagonist dreams of laurels — wingolog
wingolog.org · Dec 17
wingolog: article: in which our protagonist dreams of laurels
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Nora, dreamer quintet
(@noracodes) ·
Dec 18
And fuck you if you think that "FOSS isn't political."
> When I reflect back on what inspired me about free software 25 years ago, it was much more political than technical. The idea that we should be able to modify our own means of production and share those modifications was a part of a political project of mutual care: we should be empowered to affect the systems that surround us, to the extent that they affect us.
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> To give you an idea of the milieu, picture me in 1999. I left my home to study abroad on another continent. When I would go to internet cafés I would do my email and read slashdot and freshmeat as one did back then, but also I would often read Z magazine, Noam Chomsky and Michael Albert and Michael Parenti and Arundhati Roy and Zapatistas and all. I remember reading El País the day after “we” shut down the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, seeing front-page pictures of pink-haired kids being beat up by the cops and wishing I were there with them. For me, free software fit with all of this: the notion that a better world was possible, and we could build it together.
https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/12/17/in-which-our-protagonist-dreams-of-laurels
How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts
theguardian.com · Dec 18
From floods to droughts, erratic weather patterns are affecting food security, with crop yields projected to fall if changes are not made
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Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’
(@grammasaurus) ·
Dec 18
Experts in climate change and food security:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/dec/18/how-climate-breakdown-is-putting-the-worlds-food-in-peril-in-maps-and-charts
Russell Vought: “climate alarmism!” and orders the dismantling of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility
vale.rocks · Dec 18
Shiny exclusion all the way down.
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The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
newrepublic.com · Dec 18
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
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Shoq
(@shoq) ·
Dec 18
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned | The New Republic
▶ Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
https://newrepublic.com/article/204254/survey-2024-election-cassandras-trump-2025
The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys
pivot-to-ai.com · Dec 18
Back in the 1990s, in the first flowering of the World Wide Web, the Silicon Valley guys were way into their manifestos. “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”! The “Cluetrain Manifesto!…
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
(@gedankenstuecke) ·
Dec 18
«The Resonant Computing Manifesto is the usual AI marketing from the usual AI suspects. These guys got ChatGPT to summarise one 1990s issue of Wired, and it oneshotted them.»
Hahaha, such a brilliant summary by @davidgerard
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/17/the-resonant-computing-manifesto-same-ai-slop-same-ai-guys/
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