Democracy
"When the government can track where you go, whom you associate with, and what you spend your money on, it [...] chills freedom of expression, undermines your freedom to travel, and destroys the fundamental privacy right that underlies American liberty."
AI
Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it sent to a publisher. Today, Anthropic crawls 60,000.
Future of News
How we might rebuild journalism from the ground up by rethinking what a newsroom is.
Democracy
404 Media reveals collaboration between ICE and local police
Democracy
At the time of writing, the world looks pretty hopeless.
Technology
Why the idealistic promise of collaborative software often falls short of its potential.
Democracy
It's going to be a long summer. WIRED has some advice for being prepared.
Fediverse
I relaunched my website on Ghost. Here's why.
Notable links
404 Media reports that the country's major airlines are selling passenger data to Customs and Border Protection and ICE.
I’m grateful that people stop by and read my posts. I think I’m really lucky. Thank you! I love writing here, but I’d love to know how I could serve you better. So every year I ask my readers to fill in a short survey. It doesn’
Notable links
[Cameron Faulkner at The Verge] Bounce is a game-changer for the open social web: "Bounce is built on the work of Bridgy Fed, which makes your Bluesky posts visible on Mastodon and vice versa. Using Bounce will bridge your accounts, in case you haven’t already set up Bridgy
I can’t help myself. I’ve loved every moment of the rebooted Doctor Who on Disney+, but it appears to have hit a bit of a pause while Disney considers whether to renew its co-production. With its future unclear (although I’m certain it’s coming back before too
