Future of News
When people trust humans more than brands: the incubator newsroom
How we might rebuild journalism from the ground up by rethinking what a newsroom is.
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Some of those who work forces
404 Media reveals collaboration between ICE and local police
Democracy
Just another Saturday in June.
At the time of writing, the world looks pretty hopeless.
Technology
What is open source?
Why the idealistic promise of collaborative software often falls short of its potential.
Democracy
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
It's going to be a long summer. WIRED has some advice for being prepared.
Fediverse
Welcome to my new site
I relaunched my website on Ghost. Here's why.
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Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
404 Media reports that the country's major airlines are selling passenger data to Customs and Border Protection and ICE.
Who's reading Werd I/O? Community survey 2025
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’
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Bounce lets you move your followers from Bluesky to Mastodon
[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
The Darkest Day: A fantasy Doctor Who season
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
Technology
Letter to Arc members 2025
[The Browser Company] Arc is my primary browser, and I'm feeling like that's a choice I should never have made: "The part that was hard to admit, is that Arc — and even Arc Search — were too incremental. They were meaningful, yes. But ultimately not at
Democracy
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
[Ava Kofman in The New Yorker] Curtis Yarvin is a pathetic little man: "As his ideas have been surrealized in DOGE and Trump has taken to self-identifying as a king, one might expect to find Yarvin in an exultant mood. In fact, he has spent the past few