Today, @wikipedia.org turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future. There's no better example of the web we make together. www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...

Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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My piece about AI in the classroom in The Chronicle of Higher Ed has been out for a couple of weeks, but it blew up today after Renic quoted it. Many commenters are ragging on AI-using students, but a lot of the problembis cognitive bias that makes AI use _feel_ like learning.

Neil Renic@ncrenic.bsky.social · last yr.

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FEED for DC resistance to the Musk coup: #forkoff! With @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social and more

I'm talking about the threatened TikTok ban on TED Explains today at 1pm EST: www.youtube.com/live/fy1PbnW...

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press

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A fuller explanation of the principle is here - it is a feed selection problem within a platform, not a problem of who is on the platform - and that is Bluesky's reason for being: www.techpolicy.press/protecting-f...

Protecting Freedom of Thought by Deciding What Information You Consume | TechPolicy.Press

Cutting through the dilemma over content moderation requires rethinking the social component of online discourse, not just the technology, says Richard Reisman.

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Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian academic and poet killed a year ago, has a posthumous book of poetry coming out on Tuesday. Pre-orders have it at #47 on Amazon. Not 47th most popular book of poetry, or even literature. 47th most popular book, full stop. www.amazon.com/If-Must-Die-...

If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose

Amazon.com: If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose eBook : Alareer, Refaat, Aljamal, Yousef M.: Tienda Kindle

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there's a whole class of journalists who people thought were on the left but have always been Like This. Fang, Taibbi, Cenk, Blumenthal, a whole bunch of Young Turks types, and, of course, Greenwald they didn't get awful. they've always been.

Nathan Goldwag@goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's already starting.

Shirky does say X “has become, in internet parlance, a Nazi bar.” My primary concern, though, is not so much the bar’s patrons as the bar’s *owner* www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

Opinion | Bluesky Is Different From X. For Now. (Gift Article)

Users are looking for a more curated experience on a platform that is not constantly trying to get them to interact with brands.

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I wrote something about the migration from X to Bluesky. (I did not choose the title, and do not like it, but there you go.) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

Opinion | Bluesky Is Different From X. For Now.

Users are looking for a more curated experience on a platform that is not constantly trying to get them to interact with brands.

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I’m ready to organize my fellow Substack publishers and demand answers from leadership. You want in? Email me: MKwrites4000@proton.me

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 3y ago

"Some Substack newsletters by Nazis and white nationalists have thousands or tens of thousands of subscribers, making the platform a new and valuable tool for creating mailing lists for the far right. And many accept paid subscriptions through Substack..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

A lot of people are responding to the Truth Social and Twitter lawsuits with "can't wait for discovery" and stuff that's almost celebratory. But as someone who worked at Gawker Media in 2016, I can assure you that being right doesn't mean your media outlet will be allowed to survive.

Remarkable couple of lines in this Semafor piece about the 2024 presidential election. www.semafor.com/article/11/1...

Still remarkable that you might get a five-candidate ballot next year with no candidate under age 70. Biden (D): 81 Trump (R): 78 Kennedy (I): 70 West (I): 71 Manchin (No Labels): 77

By voting 3rd party, you’re throwing away your vote. The electoral college prevents a successful 3rd party. If that’s ok with you go for it. But own the consequences.

Americans gunned down in public places? Can you even imagine such a bizarro world scenario?

As a New Yorker, let me just say that the misdiagnosis of the problem in this article is appalling, a short anecdote: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/o...

"They absolutely want your extinction." Today, Elon Musk wildly increased his race-war rhetoric and promotion of white nationalism in a reply to a complaint by a white supremacist about the melting down of the Charlottesville Robert E Lee statue.