I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy.
I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at.
www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...
It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.
Hear me out: it is quite possible cats are a system of control imposed by the creators of the Matrix.
I feel anyone with cat companions understands this.
I use Proton VPN, but yeah. This needs to be part of the Nuremberg Tribunal should we succeed in electing Dems with fire in the belly to create one.
Crime against humanity.
Same. This right here.
The cruelty is the point.
The cruelty is the point.
The cruelty is the point.
I just can't even.
The modern Republican party.
Those of us who were around during the dotcom boom are familiar with the "build it and they will come" fantasy spreadsheet mentality that led to the dotcom bust, and oh boy AI is like orders of magnitude more fantasical.
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-slowin...
A Nature study claims video glitches can negatively affect outcomes in job interviews, seminars, health consultations, and parole hearings. They settle on an uncanniness construct that results from glitches interrupting the “human” signal marker in audiences and suggest it is implicit. However…
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A peer-reviewed JAMA study published Apr. 16, 2026 found ICE detention deaths in partial FY2026 reached 88.9 per 100,000; a 22-year high with nearly 7x FY2023’s 13.0 rate, and higher than the COVID-era spike.
