Notable links: March 27, 2026

Progress on the open social web; not so much in the world.

Why Knight Foundation Invested in Bluesky

Newsrooms have been slow to care about the open social web - but one of their most important support organizations is paying attention.

Make Space for Every Voice

"If you want stronger decisions, make space for every voice." This is a simple technique to do this in your meetings that really works.

Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case

The implications of this case could include the effective end of Section 230 protections – and a new wave of attacks on places where people learn, share, and connect online.

I built a CLI for Ghost

John O'Nolan built a CLI for his own product - and found himself using it in an entirely new way. The underlying trend here is really exciting.

Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high

"Our home planet is struggling with a record energy imbalance, which is warming oceans to unprecedented levels, making weather more extreme and threatening health and food supplies." How we react matters.

Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them

"The materialist response isn't to reject the new technology. It's to evolve our licenses to encompass it."

Ageless Linux

"Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't." Open source activism at its finest.

AI is changing the style and substance of human writing, study finds

"Teams from Google and leading universities found that large-language models change the voice, tone and intended meaning of human authors."

Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, with U.S. Decline “Unprecedented”

"Democratic backsliding is now happening in well-established democracies. Democracy in the USA is deteriorating at unprecedented speed, and media and journalists are increasingly targeted across the world."

Notable links: March 20, 2026

Agentic engineering and burnout.

Four things about Yahoo News that may surprise you

It's one of the most popular news sites in the country, and it's wildly profitable. It might be the right time for Yahoo to bounce back.