A book by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang, and the Plurality Community exploring how technology can support and strengthen democracy.

Kay S. Hymowitz argues that too many men in their 20s are living in a new kind of extended adolescence.

So much amatonormativity, gender essentialism, and “old man yells at cloud.”

A quiet corner of the internet where you can think, write, read and connect. Like how the internet was supposed to be.

AI slop concerns are at an all-time high. jazzband just shut down in part because github has become inundated with unqualified AI PRs. facebook, X, reddit, et all feel more machine than human these days.

lobste.rs, on the other hand, feels very human. i believe that this is in large part due to their membership system.

Every text on the shelf. Search the canon, filter by format, and switch between cover and list views.

When Zarathustra’s three apes founded The Gatalog in June of 2021, they did not yet know they had killed Jstark. Their founding manifesto was a confused but earnest refutation of digital rights management (DRM) written for Ammoland.

On August 25, 2021, they got the first test of these values when Everytown sent a take-down notice to DEFCAD for the removal of three Gatalog files.

Joined by FPC, our groups quickly organized to fight the first federal intellectual property claim in the history of 3D2A.

It would not be the last.

Online bei lokalen, inhabergeführten Buchhandlungen kaufen!

Global digital data from official reports and peer-reviewed research turned into counters that tick in real time.

Grassroots movement that coordinates, develops, and fosters communities of Reclaimers who want digital independence.

Online journal dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works—in the UK—available on the web.

3D models, panoramas, and guided stories of monuments and cultural heritage around the world.

The hubris that usually aids in the formation of empire and hegemony is the same hubris that usually leads to its downfall

Interactive visualization of Polybius’s theory of anacyclosis—the cyclical succession of political regimes.

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“That’s Google’s SafeNet. HSBC picked a level that causes this. Google manages the blacklist of apps. We are rapidly losing our freedoms to the will of these companies. If they decide they don’t want to they can even if the law doesn’t forbid it.

People in Switzerland and the EU are being de-banked by local banks because of US pressure allowing them to force any bank that wants to use USD. The US has started to sanction people for free speech resulting in de-banking.

Swiss law requires one bank (Postfinance) to offer banking irregardless but if you are sanctioned you can’t use the wire system, no other currencies, no credit cards and you cant use Twint either so it’s in effect useless. You can’t pay for your health insurance or rent.”

Inspector Dangerfuck burst onto the ANSI art scene with a bang, literally.

EE-LOF01.IMP, the first of two pieces in Imperial’s July 1994 artpack to feature the character, shows him walking with a gun in hand, as a bullet flies past. “God! This ain’t safe!” he exclaims.

A new project focused on analyzing how the United States uses the U.S. dollar as a tool of global power and influence. The piece argues that while discussions in Silicon Valley and Washington often focus on trade controls (like chips or energy), they overlook the monetary infrastructure underlying global power: the dollar. The author highlights that U.S. dominance in global finance has allowed it to enforce policy without military force and credits this for much of the stability seen over the past ~80 years. However, that dominance is now being challenged, especially in regions of Africa, Central Asia, and elsewhere where China and other rivals are building alternative financial systems that weaken reliance on the dollar and U.S. financial control.