Can IPv6 play a role in resisting internet censorship? Background Earlier this week a user on the Fediverse noticed that a website titled “w-social.eu,” recently went offline. Looking…

Corporate social media is having a devastating effect on queer peoples' lives

Maryland-Based RBmedia Lays Off 22 Workers Amid Union Contract Negotiations In the middle of collective bargaining, the parent company of Rockville-based immersive audiobook company Graphic Audio…

An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today,…

There’s a disturbing incident caught on camera in Maui going viral. I have to warn you: watching this will most likely make your blood boil. Outrage is growing across Maui,... The post Tourist…

The recent conversation explored the intricate relationship between consumer brand choices and personal identity, revealing varied perspectives on the significance of brands across different cultures…

Roche is buying Boston-based PathAI for $750M upfront plus milestones, and yes, this is exactly the kind of hard-tech, health-AI win Boston should be insufferably proud of.

Today I opened my university's Canvas and attempted to take a quiz. The quiz did not load. Instead, I saw a ransom note from the hackers who have been attacking Canvas. Frustrated, I watched the due…

Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, announced that 25% of Winter 2025 startups had 95% of their code generated by AI. The internet applauded. I read it twice to make sure that was actually the claim.…

A semi-personal note on how security, privacy, and self-hosting change when your life is no longer designed for one user.

Building analytics on well-known public datasets earns stakeholder credibility before you write a single custom pipeline. Once the framework proves itself on familiar ground, automation and analytics…

Can someone explain TikTok algo-crafting to me? Seriously, I think it might just be an insanely massive cope for screen addiction, but at the same time it's such an easy way to stay Tapped In—so I…

In 1950, Hill and Doll published a landmark paper in the British Medical Journal . They had interviewed hundreds of lung cancer patients and healthy controls in London hospitals and found that people…

It’s no longer defensible for CEOs and boards to outsource understanding AI to their technology execs. I partnered with CxAI on a post about the three key principles that will enable execs to build…

Anthropic doubled Claude Code's rate limits. Users say it's worse. The 5-hour window got bigger. The weekly cap didn't.

Ted Turner, who built WTBS into a superstation and founded Turner Classic Movies, TNT, Cartoon Network, and CNN, died yesterday, May 6, at the age of 87. He had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia…

Yeah, sure, we all put our files/lectures/exams on this central server that we have no control over, and then they do this to us: For those who don’t know, Canvas is the courseware many schools…

The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is now onl... Continue reading →

For this episode, we need to talk about education, racism, and a bit more.

I'm sorry, WHAT??? WE'RE TRUSTING THEM TO SELF ISOLATE? I'm sorry, no, but this is like the one thing that'll turn this anarchist full tanky. Lock them down. Give them chocolates or like pickled…

https://granda.org/en/2026/03/13/your-parked-tesla-is-a-data-center/Really interesting idea. I love this way of thinking… how can we utilise what we already haveYou're getting this because you follow…

Mad Cave Studios Brings A Powerful New Anthology Amplifying Indigenous Voices, Storytelling, and Advocacy, Rooted in Direct Support for Native-Led Organizations A powerful new anthology brings…

THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2026 Tarlov among the chimps: How fraudulent is much of the "cable news" discourse afflicting this failing nation? Thanks to Willa Pope Robbins of Mediaite , we can steer you to the…

(The original article I wrote compared the current system to Nazi concentration camps. It was pointed out to me that this was an incorrect analogy so I've changed the article to compare the current…

Overdose deaths, homicides, and traffic fatalities are falling sharply, suggesting America may be seeing one of its most important public-health reversals in years.

Public school students shouldn't be used as political foot soldiers.

Innocent people confess to crimes they never committed. It sounds extreme, but it is a real and documented problem. Photography Book Spotlight

I hope we all now understand that forging strategic policy partnerships with fascists is like trying to develop an intimate relationship with a running chainsaw.

Share your anxieties, hopes, horrors, and pleasures around relationships in this quick installation I made at the Dublin branch library in metro Columbus, Ohio. Many responses will be included in a…

Nostalgia for the pre-AI era grips us. Dr Mohamed Mannaa confesses “I remember what it meant to write before this era. Writing a single paragraph often required reading dozens of papers,…

A study in the International Journal of Business Innovation and Research has looked at women’s employment in Saudi Arabia. It suggests that workplace empowerment is closely linked to an employee’s…

<p>i was always a big fan of going to developer conferences - talks, in-depth workshops, coding labs and meeting other developers in real life. Also if i couldn’t attend in person i usually was…

Amanda Shendruk writes about the work that’s done after Burning Man , where 150 people line up, side by side and arms apart, and slow walk the entire playa looking for Moop (Matter Out of Place).…

Most speculation I see about what might happen with artificial intelligence anticipates some stable situation where humans and AI reach an equilibrium. Do people not understand exponential growth? Do…

"Journalists, cultural workers, content creators, and other trusted messengers are enabling better civic insight for communities. How do we economically support the civic information future that…

Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people are at a significantly higher risk of becoming a victim of violent crime than other people in Canada. In Canada, thousands of Indigenous women have been…

I could be wrong, but I feel like this post is going to be similar to the one I wrote recently about crypto stablecoins. I know some readers never got past the headline, because they were busy…

For my entire life, I have been against the death penalty. Murder is wrong. Period. Even if (insert ghoulish crime here)? Yes, even then. A life sentence without parole is acceptable to me. Except.…

Ask Jeeves closes, and a small ceremony of human ignorance closes with it.

A recent survey by Pew Research shows that in 2025, 16% of Americans used a smartphone as their only source of broadband. The percentage has grown a bit over previous surveys. I’ve seen articles in…

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There’s a debate that’s been running on the internet for nearly two decades: when someone gets harassed or hurt online, whose fault is it? The platform’s? The creator who posted the…

A local transportation planner has won an international grant competition with her designs to upgrade the Bike to the Sea Bike Kitchen along the Northern Strand Trail in Malden.

From the conclusion of Anthropic’s article summarizing their own research into AI-assistance and skill formation: Our results suggest that incorporating AI aggressively into the workplace,…

I love this short open-access paper from danah boyd where she suggests shifting the term we use to describe social media.

SPECIMEN #000: Custos corruptus (The Corrupt Guardian: How the World's Largest Social Network Profits from the Grifts It Claims to Police) Classification: Attention Merchant / Grift Enabler /…

Reinder spotted this and said “This German booklet about Berlin – the eastern half of the city that is – […]

The Hidden Infrastructure Problem Nobody Talks About. India has talent. India has ambition. India has capital. India has one of the largest pools of engineers in the world. Yet India still struggles…

I was working on a design doc recently with the help of AI when it generated a sentence that immediately made me stop. It described another team’s system as “legacy infrastructure that should be…

Over the past decade, the industry has aggressively optimised for cost and digital efficiency and, in doing so, it has quietly dismantled the human infrastructure that made banking work for millions…