Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.
There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking our servers wave after wave, systematically requesting page after page, relentlessly filling t...
Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.
A very important article. Please read. If it doesn’t move you then check your humanity at the door, please. 👇🏼
“I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here”
From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days”
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters From the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
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ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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Layoffs, billionaires and political capture are hollowing out legacy news, and it’s difficult to see what will come next, writes Jeff Jarvis.
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Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: https://anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-prince-won-the-super-bowl/ 
Mathematician whose work at the US Naval Weapons Laboratory was pivotal to the development of GPS
A great Gladys West obituary, a woman intrinsic to the development of GPS and GIS more generally (among other things).
Because history is overflowing with Father of Tech Things (often at the expense of hidden & brilliant women doing the heavy lifting), let's call her the Mother of GPS
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/08/gladys-west-obituary
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