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toothcomb.codebox.net

Toothcomb

An AI-powered tool designed for analyzing and fact-checking live speech or text in real-time.

chrbutler.com

Cynicism is a luxury; hope is a necessity.

One’s ability to ignore politics is a product of functional system that shares your worldview.

placesjournal.org

The disappearance of the public bench

When benches are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.

baldurbjarnason.com

The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born

A major inflection point as the tech industry’s imperial mindset crumbles under intense social backlash.

tante.cc

AI as a fascist artifact

Our world is built around technological infrastructures that define what we see, who we can talk to and what information gets presented to us.

youtube.com

Bernie vs. Claude

Speaking to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that violates our privacy rights.

thelibre.news

The political use of operating systems

How operating systems shape the way we interact with institutions, private entities and peers.

sahajgarg.github.io

The displacement of cognitive labor and what comes after

We are past the point where the question is whether artificial intelligence will exceed human capability across most cognitive domains.

europeantechmap.eu

European Tech Map

Find European tech, software, and service alternatives that respect your data sovereignty, are built with GDPR in mind, and store data in Europe.

nottoday.diy

Technofascism Network Map

Mapping the alliance of billionaires, politicians, and tech giants driving global techno-fascism.

dri.es

The software sovereignty scale

Digital sovereignty depends less on where software comes from and more on who controls it.

givingwhatwecan.org

Birth Lottery

If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

interconnected.org

Singing the gospel of collective efficacy

The belief that you can make a difference by acting together.

resonantcomputing.org

The Resonant Computing Manifesto

A manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

blog.avas.space

Privacy is a value we can lose

We’re taking data protection and privacy rights for granted.

anthropic.com

Claude’s Constitution

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

matthewbutterick.com

The copyrightability of fonts revisited

How many existing regis­tra­tions of font copy­rights might be vulner­able to attacks during liti­ga­tion?

anacyclosis.info

Anacyclosis: the cycle of political revolution

An interactive visualization of Polybius’s theory of anacyclosis—the cyclical succession of political regimes.

hsu.cy

Times New American: a tale of two fonts

A less romantic truth is that aesthetic standards rarely travel alone; power tends to follow in their wake.

vitalik.eth.limo

Balance of power

We like progress—whether in technology, economy or culture—but we fear the most powerful generators of such progress.