Wisconsin man who showed up to support an anti-trans bill does something amazing
man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally…
Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech?
In this episode, I chat with author Cory Doctorow about "enshittification," his viral term for how digital platforms and smart technologies inevitably get worse over time. We explore how monopoly…
For Love of God, Make Your Own Website
The internet sucks now--but it doesn't have to.
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals. …
Everyone’s a sellout now
So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok?
Influencers with Taylor Lorenz
“The creatures outside looked from influencer to human, and from human to influencer, and from human to influencer again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Taylor…
do we have free speech?
not when it comes to Palestine.
The “IC on the Record” Tumblr was created after the biggest leak in intelligence history.
As Government Technology’s Lindsay Crudele wrote last November, “It took years for Twitter to evolve from a platform for casual lunch updates to a vital tool for public information exchange…