#Internet

oplopanax 'no true Scotsman'

lithohedron

The GPS system is a fucking miracle, and like most systems of this complexity it sometimes seems amazing it works at all.https://twitter.com/lithohedron/status/1345649088558112768 Imagine a private company trying to put a

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

Those who have spent years begging and pleading with Silicon Valley to aggressively police speech and content have single-handledly gutted one of the key initial values of the internet: empowering

Philip Monk

pcmonk

I suspect the reason Urbit is "hard to explain" is not because the what we're doing is hard to understand but because most people disagree with *why* we're doing it.

MZS

mattzollerseitz

The gate is open. No one is keeping it. You can find almost any movie you want on the Internet if you decide to look for it. If it’s not

The Morning Context

MorningContext

In the first of two-part series, @artijourno brings startling facts about the process of weeding out unregulated lending apps. 1) Close to 400 apps were running on Play Store but

jacob ☼☽

js_horne

NFT’s closest analogue is art in the public domain. Individually owned, but free to share and use by anyone. When it’s freely shared and used it’s not detracting value from

Ryan Fedasiuk

RyanFedasiuk

In my latest for @ChinaBriefJT, I investigated the budgets of Chinese government and CCP offices responsible for silencing political opponents on the internet.It turns out silence is expensive—and one of

Jeff Kosseff

jkosseff

The metro newspaper I joined in 2001 had nearly 400 newsroom employees. It is now well below 100, and the paper’s steady demise over two decades is heartbreaking. But it

Ben Lucier

benlucier

[THREAD] Can we talk about Internet services at home? Here's the trap many fall into when our telco and cablecos sell us super-fast fibre Internet: The assumption that we 'need'

Nikhil Pahwa

nixxin

Heartening news yesterday: 4G services have finally been restored in Kashmir. It has been a year and half of no/almost-no Internet. Can you even imagine what that's like in today's

Kiri Callaghan

KiriCallaghan

I never thought this needed explaining, but sometimes nuance gets lost. The reason millennials use "adulting" all the time is a generational inside-joke. It was never initially meant to be

DJ 🔮

LightAsiiDJ

Anxiety is how people cope with information wars. When you think about it, anxiety is the exact same feeling of excitement. The only difference is that when you are excited

Chase Roper

chase_roper

I just quit working for Xfinity/Comcast. I want families to know that the special Essentials program they offer to low income households for 9.95/mo is only 25mbps and in almost

TruthSeek33

truthseek33

Cosmos $ATOM is basically the third layer of the Blockchain IOV. It IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW IOV.$ATOM is the best kept secret in crypto next to $XRP/$XLM/$XDC. Theres

Arvind Narayanan

random_walker

We like to complain that lawmakers don’t understand tech, but let’s talk for a minute about technologists who don’t understand the law. Actually, it’s much worse than that—many prominent technologists

Michael Eisen

mbeisen

why do people treat current peer review system as if it was optimized to help authors and advance science when its primary features - pre-publication review by 2-3 people, binary

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