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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

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As folks are embarking on all these data rescue / refuge projects, I hope they're heeding the lessons from the 2016/17 teams -- e.g., figshare.com/articles/jou... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... docs.lib.purdue.edu/atg/vol29/is...

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

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You have questions. Mostly of the "What Can I Do to Resist This Coup?" variety. Choose Democracy has answers. Here's a really handy guide to the how/what/why of organizing... Share widely. Link here: choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

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You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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A street artist in DC is putting up these posters all over the city. I’d love to get one.

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This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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Gotta say, @wired.com is killing it on the DOGE beat. Too many must-read stories to link individually: www.wired.com

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I stopped supporting the toxic Amazon ecosystem, and switched to supporting independent publishers and bookstores via bookshop.org. Andy Hunter, their CEO, was in the decoder podcast, listen to him! #booksky #books #culture

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This is a moment. Remember it.

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If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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A genius street artist is transforming New York’s urban landscape—let’s hope no one stops him!: streetartutopia.com/street-art-b...

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As distrust spreads in the digital age, a growing number of fictional stories feature analog objects that symbolize integrity, solve the crime, and radiate realness, Mark Athitakis writes.

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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

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In “The Radical Print”, author Esther Chadwick explores how 18th-century British printmakers like William Blake used art to challenge power and politics.

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Organize! Build community! Resist!

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In a world gone mad, the most powerful acts of resistance don’t involve posting on social media, but engaging in your community. Here’s my piece from last summer on the value of Supercitizens, who don’t just provide the glue that keeps us together, but also live longer because of it.

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"How you can protect democracy 29 concrete actions you can take right now to protect our system of government" www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-you-ca...

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Developer creates infinite maze that traps AI training bots 🔗 www.404media.co/developer-cr...

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"Capitulation Is Contagious. When fear spreads in a society, powerful people who know better are often the first to show their weakness." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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"After a lot of trial and error, I now view audience attention as something like the wind that powers a sailboat. It’s a real phenomenon, independent of the boat, and you can successfully sail only if you harness it."

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“It starts with this blog post. I feel like I am waking up from being in a state of numb passivity. We can take back what they took from us. I need to put the effort in again… It’s going to take work, to restore this ecosystem, but we need to do it.”

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anyway

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Don't blindly use block list. Bad faith actors are weaponzing this feature to trick you into blocking accounts like ours. It's best to currate your own block list.

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We had to get in on the video action too — Bluesky now has custom feeds for video! Like any other feed, you can choose to pin these or not. Bluesky is yours to customize.

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Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King Jr.—Mountain Top, color screenprint, 1968

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I wasn't planning to post today, but this one wanted to be written open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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"we can restore the things we loved about the old web while incorporating the wonderful things that have emerged since, developing even better things as we go forward, and leaving behind some things (...) we all too often forget when we put on our rose-colored glasses." Great article by @molly.wiki

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The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control. Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.

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"The biggest trouble is this: the more you invest in learning today's [web] frameworks, the more technical debt you accumulate in your mind. React patterns from just a few years ago are now considered antipatterns." There is really a need to make things simple.

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“Perhaps we now understand better how a constant posture of resistance can be personally harmful, and also undermine our actual goals. A political ideology cannot run alone on what it is against. But while Republicans may be sore winners, in many ways it feels like we’re content losers.”

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Inessa Pawson won the 2024 NumFocus community leadership award. We're thrilled to celebrate her. She's been key in building the pyOpenSci community and other vital parts of the #python #opensource #community, fostering connection & promoting open source values 💖 Read more: https://buff.ly/3P4MnOY

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Social media is the new tobacco industry.

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This is an excellent primer on some of the privacy dangers posed by large scale AI, from a cybersecurity perspective. Written in clear language, it's the most accessible rundown I've seen yet on these topics! desfontain.es/blog/privacy...

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"The ☎️ book could be understood as a shared resource, common to the community + producing a kind of common subject position for all its users; internet info produces an isolated subject who can’t reliably conceive of what other people know, of what sorts of options and idea they have access to..."

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I am really really enjoying Lurking by @jomc.bsky.social. In a time when the trolls rule the online and offline world, bringing back some of the humanity of the early small Internet communities might be the key to resist.

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