Guest post by Sorbie Richner
It Breaks a Village: Bevy's 6th Birthday
This post, like all my posts, was written by me. It came out of a lot of conversation and reflection with many people. It is long. I promise you there's valu...
The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
Editor's Notes: Entering the Circular Firing Squad
Today, we published the second Alan Elrod article in a week on the toxic politics surrounding the Democratic candidate for Maine's Senate seat, Graham Platner. What's more, yesterday we published Katherine Alejandra Cross in a similar vein. Why the focus on Platner, when so much is at stake
#760: Gambling the future into existence
Plus: Cosmo for conservatives, AI;DR and being "agentic"
I Hate The Way We Talk Online
Jason Toney on algorithm-speak, main character energy, and why a simple question about music charts revealed how badly we've forgotten how to talk to each other online."
How dupes took over the world
The Verge’s Mia Sato explains the appeal and big business of dupes.
komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs
Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try to abduct some insights out of the raw notes. To make the ideas easier for me to engage with, I ...
The Noise Floor of Latent Dissent // Harry Halpin
This is an interview with Harry Halpin. Harry Halpin is a technologist and philosopher who moved from building Indymedia during the anti-globalisation protests to earning a Ph.D. in Informatics und…
Migration to Pagecord - bstn.info
This is a crazy story. It started completely out of the blue. A few days ago, I read a post by Gobino on Mastodon. He wrote: If anyone is looking for a...
How to (Anti) AI Better
The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet - Multi-hyphenate
Why every new "Art Community" fails. Equal parts eulogy, condemnation, and mourning.