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The Case for Blogging in the Ruins

joanwestenberg.com · Jan 01

In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored en...

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Mike Pirnat (@mpirnat) · Jan 02
🔁 @Daojoan:

I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.

It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.

joanwestenberg.com/the-case-fo

Mariya Delano (@mariyadelano) · Jan 02
🔁 @Daojoan:

I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.

It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.

joanwestenberg.com/the-case-fo

Steven Lipton (@MakeAppPie) · Jan 02
🔁 @Daojoan:

I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.

It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.

joanwestenberg.com/the-case-fo

D'Arcy Norman 🇨🇦 (@dnorman) · Jan 02
🔁 @Daojoan:

I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.

It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.

joanwestenberg.com/the-case-fo

The Human Capybara (@aSweetGentleman) · Jan 02
🔁 @Daojoan:

I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.

It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.

joanwestenberg.com/the-case-fo

cyber-uwe (er/ihm) (@luebbermann) · Jan 01
🔁 @Daojoan:

I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.

It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.

joanwestenberg.com/the-case-fo

Sean Murthy (@smurthys) · Jan 02
🔁 @Daojoan:

I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.

It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.

joanwestenberg.com/the-case-fo

trending_bot (@trending_bot) · Jan 02
🔁 @Daojoan:

I keep watching people who used to write 10,000-word explorations of complex topics now produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each optimized for immediate engagement.

It's like watching someone who composed symphonies decide to only make ringtones.

joanwestenberg.com/the-case-fo

Worth reading

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry

transnews.network · Jan 01

In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directed from the very top and the damage this legitimization of bigotry has done

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BobDevney (@BobDevney) · Jan 01
🔁 @transnews.network:

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

'A directive from above': Form...

Alley Stoughton (@fullyabstract) · Jan 01
🔁 @transnews.network:

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

'A directive from above': Form...

🎆🎉 Masto New Year 🎊🎇 (@mast0d0nphan) · Jan 02
🔁 @tillybridges:

the New York Times is so very responsible for the state of trans rights in the US right now due to their concerted effort to promote and normalize anti-trans bigotry and propaganda

it was INTENTIONAL, like we’ve been telling you all along

transnews.network/p/a-directiv

Daisy Leigh Brenecki (@daisy) · Jan 02
🔁 @transnews.network:

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

'A directive from above': Form...

Alyssa Coghlan (@ancoghlan) · Jan 02
🔁 @transnews.network:

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

'A directive from above': Form...

Katrina Katrinka :donor: (@katrinakatrinka) · Jan 01
🔁 @transnews.network:

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

'A directive from above': Form...

rezmason (@rezmason) · Jan 02
🔁 @tillybridges:

the New York Times is so very responsible for the state of trans rights in the US right now due to their concerted effort to promote and normalize anti-trans bigotry and propaganda

it was INTENTIONAL, like we’ve been telling you all along

transnews.network/p/a-directiv

Lisa Melton (@lisamelton) · Jan 01
🔁 @transnews.network:

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

'A directive from above': Form...

Zaphod Beeblebrox (@garthderby) · Jan 01
🔁 @transnews.network:

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

'A directive from above': Form...

A Website To End All Websites

henry.codes · Jan 01

How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

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Scott Kellum (@scott) · Jan 01
🔁 @henry:

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

henry.codes/writing/a-website-

Ana Rodrigues (@anarodrigues) · Jan 01
🔁 @henry:

a few months ago i had the immense privilege to speak about Websites at @webdevconf in Bristol — i've taken some time to improve on these ideas and build a permanent online home for the essay, which i intend to grow and improve over time 🤍

henry.codes/writing/a-website-

henry ✷ (@henry) · Jan 01

a few months ago i had the immense privilege to speak about Websites at @webdevconf in Bristol — i've taken some time to improve on these ideas and build a permanent online home for the essay, which i intend to grow and improve over time 🤍

henry.codes/writing/a-website-

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Ralf Stockmann (@rstockm) · Jan 01
🔁 @somedude:

Great quote from @pluralistic:

"The fact that you have to figure out whether the discussion you're trying to join is on Twitter or Bluesky, Mastodon or Instagram – that is just the most Prodigy/AOL/Compuserve-ass way of running a digital world. I mean, 1990 called and they want their walled gardens back[.]"

pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

ICYMI (Law) (@icymi_law) · Jan 01
🔁 @SuffolkLITLab:

TL;DR: Cory Doctorow argues for building a 'Post-American Internet' as a response to the failures of US tech monopolies and global anticircumvention laws. He highlights emerging coalitions that include activists and national security hawks, pushing for digital sovereignty and technological self-determination. pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

LJ (@LJ) · Jan 01
🔁 @wendynather:

“Move fast and break kings.” I love @pluralistic and his rallying cry: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

RaymondPierreL3 (@RaymondPierreL3) · Jan 01

[edited for typos ]
This… is a long read I’m warning you. But if you take the time to read it (over a couple of days if needs be) you will begin to understand there is no such thing as
#FreeTrade, you will understand the power of the #TechBros and realise that America’s #USofA is a just a cover for predatory capitalism. More to the point, you will know that #Australia (and many other govts around the world) have been caving in to #US #Capitalists demands since the end of WW2 and it has cost us heaps, and currently costing us heaps more in terms of what we could be doing for ourselves instead. Weep my fiends, for the opportunites lost because our elected officials have been cowards over the many decades it took to make us #slaves to the US economy. Seriously, this #pluralistic talk is a light shining at the end of a long dark tunnel… there is hope there, and perhaps a breaking of chains?

pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

mc.fly (@mcfly) · Jan 01
🔁 @MishaVelthuis:

Reading the speech @pluralistic held at #39c3 is an amazing way to start the the new year.

A great way to calibrate your political compass.

"Let's call time on enshittification. Let's seize the means of computation. Let's build the drop-in, free, open, auditable alternatives to the services and firmware we rely on."

Let's fucking go..

pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

Bit_Rot_Bob (@Prometheus) · Jan 01
🔁 @knapjack:
Not optimistic. Fuck optimism! Optimism is the idea that things will get better no matter what we do. I know that what we do matters. Hope is the belief that if we can improve things, even in small ways, we can ascend the gradient toward the world we want, and attain higher vantage points from which new courses of action, invisible to us here at our lower elevation, will be revealed.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/ @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) · Jan 01
🔁 @knapjack:
Not optimistic. Fuck optimism! Optimism is the idea that things will get better no matter what we do. I know that what we do matters. Hope is the belief that if we can improve things, even in small ways, we can ascend the gradient toward the world we want, and attain higher vantage points from which new courses of action, invisible to us here at our lower elevation, will be revealed.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/ @pluralistic@mamot.fr

We need to reassess our relationship to digital tech

disconnect.blog · Dec 31

Getting off US tech led me to a wider questioning of digital convenience

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TheGentYYC (@TheGentYYC) · Jan 01
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

Ben Overmyer (@skysong) · Jan 01
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (@rysiek) · Jan 01
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

Paris Marx (@parismarx) · Jan 01
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸 (@dennyhenke) · Dec 31
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

Mat (@okwithmydecay) · Jan 01
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

alcinnz (@alcinnz) · Jan 01
🔁 @DavidBHimself:

If you need help with finding interesting New Year's resolutions, I got you covered. Well, @parismarx 's got you covered:

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #internet #UnitedStates

Dan Ballard (@dan_ballard) · Dec 31
🔁 @parismarx:

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

disconnect.blog/we-need-to-rea

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

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Tricia Wood (@Pkbwood) · Jan 02
🔁 @tsvenson:

"my computer isn't mine"

Last 4 words from:

'for every new worthless AI gadget Microsoft crams into it and for every time the OS inexplicably boots to a white screen and implores me to "finish setting up" my PC with an Office 365 subscription, the real problem is a feeling that my computer isn't mine"

Source: pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-

#TakeBackYourComputer

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Festive Yule Roy Pardee 🇺🇸 (@rpardee) · Jan 02
🔁 @rberger:

"That's it. That's why every government in the world allowed US Big Tech companies to declare open season on their people's private data and ready cash.

The alternative was tariffs. Well, I don't know if you've heard, but we've got tariffs now!

I mean, if someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep following their orders. So…Happy Liberation Day?" - @pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

Mensch, Marina (@energisch_) · Jan 01
🔁 @bigpumpkin:

@pluralistic Urges the world to start a revolution: "Move fast and break Tim Cook's things. Move fast and break kings!" I hope some of the people empowered to do this are listening! pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

Janeishly (@janeishly) · Jan 01
🔁 @reiterative:

"Shifting software to commons-based production is a way to reduce the liability that software imposes on its makers and users, balancing out that liability among many players"

Well yes, *of course* open source software has role to play in @pluralistic 's inspiring vision of a post-enshittification future pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva) · Jan 02
🔁 @rberger:

"That's it. That's why every government in the world allowed US Big Tech companies to declare open season on their people's private data and ready cash.

The alternative was tariffs. Well, I don't know if you've heard, but we've got tariffs now!

I mean, if someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep following their orders. So…Happy Liberation Day?" - @pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

RaymondPierreL3 (@RaymondPierreL3) · Jan 01
🔁 @rberger:

"That's it. That's why every government in the world allowed US Big Tech companies to declare open season on their people's private data and ready cash.

The alternative was tariffs. Well, I don't know if you've heard, but we've got tariffs now!

I mean, if someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep following their orders. So…Happy Liberation Day?" - @pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

Geoff Berner (@Geoffberner) · Jan 01
🔁 @pnystrom:

@pluralistic

'Powerful people are suckers for AI, because AI fuels the fantasy of a world without people: just a boss and a computer, and no ego-shattering confrontations with people who know how to do things telling you "no."'

pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

Quincy (@quincy) · Jan 01
🔁 @pnystrom:

@pluralistic

'Powerful people are suckers for AI, because AI fuels the fantasy of a world without people: just a boss and a computer, and no ego-shattering confrontations with people who know how to do things telling you "no."'

pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c

They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple

theguardian.com · Jan 01

When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva) · Jan 02
🔁 @angusm:

There was a group of young men with Israeli flags at the #ZohranMamdani inauguration event in #NYC today, holding banners reading “No to sharia law!” and chanting tired right-wing talking points. No one paid them any attention.

This excellent article by Molly Crabapple explains why attempts to paint Mamdani as an anti-Semite fail, and how a Muslim man can be part of the continuation of a long tradition of Jewish socialism in New York City.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Andrew Henry (@AndrewHenry) · Jan 01
🔁 @wdlindsy:

Noting that the Anti-Defamation League and posh New York synagogues have been Mamdani’s most virulent attackers, Molly Crabapple states,

"When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York. …

The hysteria of this elite over Mamdani’s ascent would have seemed bizarre to so many of their great-grandparents."

#ZohranMamdani #Jews #socialism
/2

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Zhi Zhu 🕸️ (@ZhiZhu) · Jan 01
🔁 @wdlindsy:

Noting that the Anti-Defamation League and posh New York synagogues have been Mamdani’s most virulent attackers, Molly Crabapple states,

"When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York. …

The hysteria of this elite over Mamdani’s ascent would have seemed bizarre to so many of their great-grandparents."

#ZohranMamdani #Jews #socialism
/2

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Kristen (@kristen_d) · Jan 01
🔁 @wdlindsy:

Noting that the Anti-Defamation League and posh New York synagogues have been Mamdani’s most virulent attackers, Molly Crabapple states,

"When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York. …

The hysteria of this elite over Mamdani’s ascent would have seemed bizarre to so many of their great-grandparents."

#ZohranMamdani #Jews #socialism
/2

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Angus McIntyre (@angusm) · Jan 02

There was a group of young men with Israeli flags at the #ZohranMamdani inauguration event in #NYC today, holding banners reading “No to sharia law!” and chanting tired right-wing talking points. No one paid them any attention.

This excellent article by Molly Crabapple explains why attempts to paint Mamdani as an anti-Semite fail, and how a Muslim man can be part of the continuation of a long tradition of Jewish socialism in New York City.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

kali (@kali) · Jan 02
🔁 @wdlindsy:

Noting that the Anti-Defamation League and posh New York synagogues have been Mamdani’s most virulent attackers, Molly Crabapple states,

"When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York. …

The hysteria of this elite over Mamdani’s ascent would have seemed bizarre to so many of their great-grandparents."

#ZohranMamdani #Jews #socialism
/2

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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