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Panel of experts explains how job seekers should prepare for the future of work
Panel of experts explains how job seekers should prepare for the future of work

From the New York Times: The Participants Daron Acemoglu, economist at M.I.T. and a Nobel laureate Dean Ball, formerly an adviser on A.I. and emerging technology for the Trump administration, now a [...]

Frozen squirrel scat preserves ancient DNA from hundreds of species
Frozen squirrel scat preserves ancient DNA from hundreds of species

Chris Simms at New Scientist: A rich and complex ecosystem stretching back 700,000 years that included woolly mammoths, bison, horses and big cats has been unveiled thanks to DNA preserved in [...]

Adam Brown: AGI & the Future of Physics

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Political Division Is So Severe America Should Split in Two
Political Division Is So Severe America Should Split in Two

Jordan Karp at The Western Journal: I never thought I’d say this. I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene. Not on policy, certainly not on her rhetoric, but on her suggestion [...]

Poetry and the Turning World: Work

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Francine Prose on Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen
Francine Prose on Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen

Francine Prose at Lapham’s Quarterly: “Everyone expected this comet to hit and obliterate England in 1857,” says Francine Prose in this episode of The World in Time. “So a lot of the [...]

Is the peptide craze backed by science?
Is the peptide craze backed by science?

Cassandra Willyard in Nature: Peptides have become the latest cure-all trend on social media — a way to eliminate wrinkles, build lean muscle, boost metabolism, clear brain fog, heal torn ligaments [...]

Harvard Student Steals Spotlight, Mocks Hegseth, US Prez At Event

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Stolen Revolution
Stolen Revolution

Dina Nayeri at The Guardian: It’s difficult in 2026 to talk about Iran without confronting a lot of crude certainty. The average non-Iranian gets their information in snippets, filtered by algorithms. The Iranian [...]

Wednesday Poem

John M. Church I was attorney for the “Q” And the Indemnity Company which insured The owners of the mine. I pulled the wires with judge and jury And the [...]

Ray Johnson and the Iron (John) Cage
Ray Johnson and the Iron (John) Cage

by Jim Hanas There is a room at the Museum of Modern Art  where you can stand with a Henry Darger at your right shoulder and look at Robert Rauschenberg’s [...]

Catspeak
Catspeak

by Brooks Riley Enjoying the content on 3QD? Help keep us going by donating now. [...]

Dave Eggers’s Long Game Pays Off
Dave Eggers’s Long Game Pays Off

Leanne Ogasawara at the Pittsburgh Review of Books: One of the most anticipated books of the year, Dave Eggers’ new novel Contrapposto was twenty years in the making and draws on the [...]

Steve Stewart-Williams on Sex Differences and Human Nature
Steve Stewart-Williams on Sex Differences and Human Nature

Yascha Mounk at his own website: Yascha Mounk: Last time we spoke, you gave a really great introduction to how to think about the influence of evolution on human nature and [...]

How warehouses work and “The Taco Turn”

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Why Conflict Feels Constant Now
Why Conflict Feels Constant Now

John Last at Noema: Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the possible death and dismemberment of my country. Time and again, I scan the news and hear rumblings of [...]

Compression is Intelligence

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Idiots: On Munch and von Trier
Idiots: On Munch and von Trier

Karl Ove Knausgaard at the Paris Review: The Sick Child by Edvard Munch is undoubtedly a highlight of Norwegian painting, still compelling and touching, still unsurpassed. The odd thing is that [...]

Stories of Mending the Broken Brain
Stories of Mending the Broken Brain

A J Lees at Literary Review: When I became a doctor in the late 1960s, patients admitted with a stroke were nursed out of sight in quiet side cubicles, removed [...]

Stonewall’s Legacy Can’t Be Taken for Granted
Stonewall’s Legacy Can’t Be Taken for Granted

From Time Magazine: Each year since 1988, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has issued its list of America’s most endangered historic places, spotlighting sites at risk from neglect, climate change, and [...]

Bay of smokes
Bay of smokes

When smog descended upon Los Angeles in 1943, it was mistaken for a Japanese attack. The real culprit was closer to home- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

The joy of autism
The joy of autism

Yes, we’re in a world of our own: for the autistic mind, it’s a place of intense curiosity, deep focus and sensory delight- by Sarah HendrickxRead on Aeon [...]

The steam engine
The steam engine

The science behind the revolutionary engine that became the bedrock of global energy – born of a curiosity from 130 BCE- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

What shape is the Earth?
What shape is the Earth?

The extraordinary challenge of determining the true shape of Earth reveals the deep value of measurement to scientific progress- by Miguel OhnesorgeRead on Aeon [...]

Artist of sympathy and cruelty
Artist of sympathy and cruelty

Mozart’s genius lay in writing music of such power that he could draw his audience into morally wrenching predicaments- by Dorian BandyRead on Aeon [...]

Life recombined
Life recombined

In the early 1970s, genetic engineers launched the most controversial revolution in science since the atomic bomb- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

Flickering Enlightenment
Flickering Enlightenment

Attacked by the Left and Right, the Enlightenment can only be saved through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique- by Eliane GlaserRead on Aeon [...]

The meatseller
The meatseller

Selinna is 15 when she leaves her home in Nigeria, bound for Italy, a journey as perilous as it is transformative- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

The embattled witnesses
The embattled witnesses

The UN’s special rapporteurs are experts charged with a singular mandate: to monitor the world’s worst human rights abuses- by Alvina HoffmannRead on Aeon [...]

This is my island
This is my island

Life on this small, off-the-grid island offers closeness to land and community for those willing, and able, to work for it- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

Can ecosystems malfunction?
Can ecosystems malfunction?

We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like airplanes or human hearts- by John DrakeRead on Aeon [...]

Being small
Being small

Nobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a trace- by Tom WooldridgeRead on Aeon [...]

Aloha ʻāina
Aloha ʻāina

It’s marketed as a holiday destination, but the true meaning of Hawai’i lies in the connections between land and people- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

Make immigration boring
Make immigration boring

The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs- by Alan ManningRead on Aeon [...]

Looking for a donkey
Looking for a donkey

After two arrests and a national uproar, why is it so tricky to find the donkey once likened to Venezuela’s president?- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

Maritime China
Maritime China

Far from turning its back on the sea, the fate of Qing China was tied as much to tides and storms as to cavalry and walls- by Ron PoRead on [...]

How death came to Earth
How death came to Earth

Why must humans die? According to an ancient Indian folktale, death first came to Earth through an ill-fated love affair- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

Mathematics is out there
Mathematics is out there

Sergiu Klainerman spent years proving that black holes won’t fly apart; and arguing that maths is not a human invention- by Steve NadisRead on Aeon [...]

Gen Z but two centuries ago
Gen Z but two centuries ago

A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise- by Emily HerringRead on Aeon [...]

Silvesterchlausen
Silvesterchlausen

‘We’re not sure what it means or how it started’ – the enigmatic ritual that has existed in Switzerland for centuries- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

ANews Podcast 470 – 6.5.26

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TOTW: Accessibility & Exclusivity

TOTW: Accessibility & Exclusivity thecollective Sun, 06/07/2026 - 07:59 [...]

Anarchist Prisoners in Russia and the War in Ukraine: Tour in France

Anarchist Prisoners in Russia and the War in Ukraine: Tour in France thecollective Wed, 06/10/2026 - 16:05 [...]

ANARCHIST ANTI-SPECIESIST GATHERING, BARCELONA – EVENTS

ANARCHIST ANTI-SPECIESIST GATHERING, BARCELONA – EVENTS thecollective Wed, 06/10/2026 - 16:01 [...]

MAY DAY 2K26

MAY DAY 2K26 thecollective Wed, 06/10/2026 - 15:53 [...]

Solidarity gathering: Get Alfredo out of 41 bis.

Solidarity gathering: Get Alfredo out of 41 bis. thecollective Wed, 06/10/2026 - 15:49 [...]

AnarchyRadio 09-June-2026

AnarchyRadio 09-June-2026 thecollective Wed, 06/10/2026 - 13:26 [...]

Regarding the appeal trial for an act of solidarity during a hunger strike of G. Michailidis

Regarding the appeal trial for an act of solidarity during a hunger strike of G. Michailidis thecollective Sun, 06/07/2026 - 15:42 [...]

Union Anarchist Communist (UAC) Naarm/Melbourne Publishes Its "Platform and Principles"

Union Anarchist Communist (UAC) Naarm/Melbourne Publishes Its "Platform and Principles" anonymous (not verified) Sun, 06/07/2026 - 13:34 [...]

THE 2026 HAMILTON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR

THE 2026 HAMILTON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR thecollective Fri, 06/05/2026 - 16:06 [...]

Camille Vivier Retrospective: “I’m Still Romantic”
Camille Vivier Retrospective: “I’m Still Romantic”

As the first major survey of her work opens in Paris, Camille Vivier discusses her singular career in art and fashion photography [...]

Anne Imhof: “By Dancing With Death, You Become More Aware of Life”
Anne Imhof: “By Dancing With Death, You Become More Aware of Life”

As Citizen opens at Sprüth Magers in London, Imhof discusses the ideas that connect her work, from Faust and ballet to female pleasure, death and the evolving language of her [...]

20 Questions with Kelsey Lu
20 Questions with Kelsey Lu

Ahead of the release of their latest album, So Help Me God, Kelsey Lu answers 20 questions on music, vengeance, mentors and secrets [...]

Two Photographers, Half a Century Apart
Two Photographers, Half a Century Apart

Presented in conjunction with Kyotographie photography festival, Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai at Japan House London features the work of two photographers whose images contemplate memory, loss and preservation in [...]

The Curious Case of Paula Einfalt
The Curious Case of Paula Einfalt

Having inherited the fallout of her parents’ fashion business, Croatian designer Paula Einfalt might have run from the industry. Instead, she is making strange, romantic clothes of her own, seen [...]

Vacation Was the Fitting Inspiration at Alessandro Sartori’s Zegna
Vacation Was the Fitting Inspiration at Alessandro Sartori’s Zegna

Shown on a pier in Malibu, Zegna Spring/Summer 2027 was short shorts and lightweight fabrics, coloured with a sense of summer inspired by the Italian tradition of villeggiare, or vacation, [...]

Ten New Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List
Ten New Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List

From texts by Rebecca Solnit to Jay McInerney, here’s our pick of the books to read over the summer months [...]

Between Two Worlds: Marjane Satrapi Remembered
Between Two Worlds: Marjane Satrapi Remembered

Following news of the Persepolis author and filmmaker’s death at the age of 56, writer Anahit Behrooz reflects on the extraordinary power of her work to evoke a life at [...]

Miami Split: Abel’s New Banana-laced Perfume Has a Dark Side
Miami Split: Abel’s New Banana-laced Perfume Has a Dark Side

Don’t be fooled by its apparent sweetness; the natural perfume brand’s latest offering takes its inspiration from an anarchic conceptual artwork [...]

Matthew Tammaro Distorts the Nude
Matthew Tammaro Distorts the Nude

For his book Reconfigurations, Tammaro twists the conventions of nude photography, using dual focus to transform bodies into strange forms [...]

Postcards, Pizza, a Mummified Foot: Olivia Laing on Warhol’s Time Capsules
Postcards, Pizza, a Mummified Foot: Olivia Laing on Warhol’s Time Capsules

As The Lonely City, Laing’s exquisite meditation on art and loneliness, gets a 10th anniversary release, the author chooses a favourite excerpt on Andy Warhol’s time capsules – 610 boxes [...]

David Wojnarowicz’s World of Ruins Comes to Glasgow
David Wojnarowicz’s World of Ruins Comes to Glasgow

On display at Carlton Place until 28 August is an in-depth look at the life, times and multisensory work of David Wojnarowicz, as part of the wider Glasgow International Festival, [...]

Hermès Dances Out the Season in the Hollywood Hills
Hermès Dances Out the Season in the Hollywood Hills

For its annual Act II show, Nadège Vanhée took Hermès to the Hollywood Hills, where ballet slippers, carré scarves and supple leather informed a collection balancing discipline and lightness [...]

Thomas Bangalter and Hans Ulrich Obrist on La Caverne du Pont Neuf
Thomas Bangalter and Hans Ulrich Obrist on La Caverne du Pont Neuf

An immersive installation on Paris’ Pont Neuf bridge, by JR and Thomas Bangalter, opening this month, pays tribute to the 40th anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Pont Neuf Wrapped. [...]

AnOther Loves: A Tartan Trainer
AnOther Loves: A Tartan Trainer

Daniel Lee has embraced Burberry’s logo-less Nova check logo with a pair of sneakers that break convention in an alternative thicket green colourway [...]

Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of Trump
Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of Trump

For days after the stunning incident, the ADA had doubled-down on the choice. [...]

Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by "93% match" in facial recognition
Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by "93% match" in facial recognition

Lawsuit: "Police let an error-prone AI system stand in for an investigation." [...]

Logitech’s foldable mouse is for people who refuse to carry a mouse with them
Logitech’s foldable mouse is for people who refuse to carry a mouse with them

The Mobi Fold is an $80 Bluetooth mouse with a silicone-wrapped hinge. [...]

Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster
Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster

Diffusion AI is most common in image generation, but it can make text outputs much faster. [...]

We managed to glean some interesting details about the Artemis III mission
We managed to glean some interesting details about the Artemis III mission

"I was on the phone with Blue Origin leadership that night, all the next day, all through the weekend." [...]

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry. [...]

Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance
Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance

The US military struck Iran again after an Iranian drone’s lucky midair strike. [...]

OB-GYNs release their own vaccine schedule, rejecting RFK Jr.'s meddling
OB-GYNs release their own vaccine schedule, rejecting RFK Jr.'s meddling

Thirteen other medical groups have already endorsed the independent schedule. [...]

Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers
Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers

Move also cuts off a massive market of legit users who buy cards with physical cash. [...]

The 2026 Honda Prelude review: Didn't expect such a head-turner
The 2026 Honda Prelude review: Didn't expect such a head-turner

Honda's $42,000 hybrid coupe looks great, handles well, and gets 44 mpg. [...]

Racist comments targeting politicians tripled since Meta relaxed its rules
Racist comments targeting politicians tripled since Meta relaxed its rules

Violent threats against lawmakers have also surged on Facebook. [...]

GM Energy introduces V2G support and new energy storage battery chemistry
GM Energy introduces V2G support and new energy storage battery chemistry

There are more than a quarter of a million V2G-capable GM EVs on the roads already. [...]

Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases
Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases

Starlink, SpaceX's top moneymaker, also raised service prices by $5 to $10. [...]

Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed
Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed

A separate zero-day also disclosed by Nightmare Eclipse appears to be patched as well. [...]

Three key vital signs make up the "urban pulse" of a city
Three key vital signs make up the "urban pulse" of a city

Cities are dynamic, not static grids, and urbanization is a "spiky," cyclical, and asynchronous process. [...]

Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor
Commonwealth Fusion makes the physics case for its 400 MW reactor

Five peer-reviewed papers update the design and model its expected output. [...]

Paramount accuses Netflix of "scorched-earth campaign" against WBD merger
Paramount accuses Netflix of "scorched-earth campaign" against WBD merger

Netflix's response: "Absurd." [...]

Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about
Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about

New frontier model refuses cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry queries. [...]

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation
Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation

Voice translations preserve speaker's tone, pacing, pitch—with SynthID watermarks for security. [...]

NASA assigns crew for Artemis III, sets aggressive timeline for flying it
NASA assigns crew for Artemis III, sets aggressive timeline for flying it

"Artemis III will be an extraordinary demonstration of what is possible." [...]

Boarding China’s Last Bus

China’s AI enthusiasm seems real. But for a population that lived through the mass layoffs of the 1990s, optimism and fear can look identical from the outside. [...]

We’re All One Crisis Away From Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides

For health hackers, the risk is not experimenting. [...]

These Wild Young People

Gen Z are a bunch of cowards…or are they risking it all on crypto? The editors of The New Critic report on their generation’s Risk-geist. [...]

The Mystery in the Medicine Cabinet

Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and what doctors probably want you to know. [...]

Shall We Play a Game?

Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement. [...]

Selling Abstraction

What global financial markets have in common with necromancers. [...]

Rust in Numbers

Why do manure spreaders have life cycles? [...]

How Long Until AI Doesn’t Need Humans?

She thinks it’s nearly imminent. He doesn’t. [...]

Are Prediction Markets Good for Anything?

We all know they’re casinos. It’s time to look at the data behind the froth. [...]

Risk-Adjusted Return

What are we afraid of? [...]

The Sweet Lesson of Neuroscience

Scientists once hoped that studying the brain would teach us how to build AI. Now, one AI researcher may have something to teach us about the brain. [...]

The Institute Behind Taiwan’s Chip Dominance

TSMC (and most of Taiwan’s chip industry) spun out of one government research institute. How did ITRI implement one of the most successful industrial policy programs of all time? [...]

Seeing Like a Sedan

Waymos and Cybercabs see the world through very different sensors. Which technology wins out will determine the future of self-driving vehicles. [...]

Rethinking High-School Science Fairs

America’s earliest science fairs gave students the chance to do independent research. Today, they’re a competitive gloss to glorified internships. It’s time for a new format. [...]

Language Birth

Since 1960, the world has lost hundreds of languages — and gained thousands. [...]

AI After Drug Development

Coming up with drug candidates isn’t the bottleneck on finding new treatments. Can AI help with the things that are? [...]

Merchants of Certainty

We can’t predict the full impact of climate change. Why did the climate movement stop pushing the world to accept this fact and start trying to deny it? [...]

Factory Logic

Xinyan Yu’s Made in Ethiopia documents the growth of a Chinese factory complex in the Ethiopian countryside. The director has much more to say on how it reflects the path [...]

A Brief History of the History of Science

What do Works in Progress and Social Text have in common? [...]

The Fight For Slow And Boring Research

As federal research funding shrinks, scientists are looking to other sources of support. Can they learn to sell their work without selling out? [...]

Congress Just Rushed Through a Disastrous Copyright Office Overhaul
Congress Just Rushed Through a Disastrous Copyright Office Overhaul

In a voice vote earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6028, the “Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act.” The legislation is presented as a technical reorganization of some [...]

The 702 Ultimatum: Warrant Requirement or Bust
The 702 Ultimatum: Warrant Requirement or Bust

For months now, Congress has been kicking the ball down the road—temporarily postponing the expiration of the mass surveillance authority Section 702 of FISA in hopes that some consensus could [...]

Enshittification Merch That Actually Fights Enshittification 
Enshittification Merch That Actually Fights Enshittification 

Enshittification isn't just a sweary word to describe the accelerating decay of the online platforms, apps, and services that we rely on.   It's a framework for understanding the structural incentives that make tech companies enemies [...]

🔊 Mass Surveillance for… Loud Music? | EFFector 38.11
🔊 Mass Surveillance for… Loud Music? | EFFector 38.11

Across the country, surveillance companies have spun a vast web of tens of thousands of license plate cameras. The people selling this tech want you to believe that it's for [...]

How and Why to Fight Back Against Social Media Bans
How and Why to Fight Back Against Social Media Bans

Several U.S. states are pushing to ban young people from social media entirely. This marks the latest wave of censorship bills masquerading as “children’s online safety” measures, with states like [...]

Tell Congress: Just Say No to NO FAKES
Tell Congress: Just Say No to NO FAKES

The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to consider and vote on the Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act (NO FAKES). Instead of targeting the real privacy harms posed [...]

VICTORY: Meta Strips Facial Recognition Code From Smart Glasses App After Public Outcry
VICTORY: Meta Strips Facial Recognition Code From Smart Glasses App After Public Outcry

Just days after a damning WIRED report exposed that Meta had quietly embedded facial recognition technology (FRT) code into millions of phones, the tech giant has quietly acquiesced in demands [...]

Cheers to the Winners of EFF’s 18th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night! 
Cheers to the Winners of EFF’s 18th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night! 

On a warm June evening in San Francisco, attorneys and other legally-minded friends of EFF gathered for our 18th Annual Cyberlaw Trivia Night, an annual test of tech-related legal knowledge, [...]

EFFecting Change: If You Own It, Why Can't You Fix It?
EFFecting Change: If You Own It, Why Can't You Fix It?

July 16, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:00pm PDTJuly 16, 2026 - 11:00am to 12:00pm PDTOnlineOwning something should mean more than just bragging rights and a receipt. Corporations are making it [...]

Internet Age Gates Are a Growing Global Threat
Internet Age Gates Are a Growing Global Threat

The internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents. Yet governments around the world continue [...]

Scenes of the Crime

Why an Indian publisher dropped Joe Sacco’s new book on a riot in north India [...]

To Dwell in Possibility

A Vatican adviser explains how the Pope became the most formidable critic of the algorithmic age [...]

As Long as There Is Football

Palestine’s pitches are in ruins, but the game lives on [...]

On the Occasion of a Magazine

In a previously unpublished essay, Thomas Mann reflects on America’s ‘terrifying moral decline’ [...]

Hope Against Hope

Generations of organisers and dissidents have kept the Iranian struggle alive [...]

This Hoe Is My ID Card

What have Indonesia’s revolutions done for the poor? [...]

‘Why Don’t You Just Die?’

Surviving torture and brutality inside Israel’s prisons [...]

Bad Memories

Nothing can stop Germany’s moral panic over antisemitism [...]

Good Jews, Bad Jews

What the mainstream gets wrong about antisemitism [...]

From Sea to Saffron Sea

The last bastions of resistance to Narendra Modi’s BJP are falling [...]

After Hope

Cuba is wasting away and making us waste away [...]

The Coup Belt

Military revolutions and jihadist insurgencies in the Sahel [...]

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

It was hard to imagine that I might soon be in another country, away from this war [...]

Ghost Fleet

America’s defeat in the Persian Gulf reveals the world to come [...]

Everything is Shock and Awesome

A conversation with Narges Bajoghli about Iran’s new generation of meme warriors [...]

The City Below the City

Feasting and warring in Tehran [...]

The Two-Faced Present

A conversation about the “short twentieth century” – and the paradoxical twenty-first [...]

The Mittel Man

What was Viktor Orbán’s vision for Europe? [...]

Stolen Children

On Switzerland’s hidden persecution of the Yenish people [...]

Speak the Wind

No description available [...]

Forty-six free software meetups on six continents

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, May 19, 2026) — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) reports that its global call for free software supporters to organize LibreLocals this May resulted in free [...]

Job opportunity: Engineering and Certification Manager at the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom, seeks a motivated and talented individual to be our new Engineering and [...]

The FSF announces global call for FSF's LibreLocal 2026 meetups

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, February 24, 2026), — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has just launched its global call for LibreLocal 2026. [...]

Eko K. A. Owen joins the FSF board as the union staff pick

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (December 29, 2025) — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today that Eko K. A. Owen will follow in Ian Kelling's footsteps by becoming the second union [...]

Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations

Boston, Massachusetts, USA (Wednesday, December 24, 2025) -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced it received two major contributions totaling around $900,000 USD. [...]

Free Software Awards winners announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, December 9, 2025) — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today the recipients of the 2024 Free Software Awards, which are given annually by the FSF [...]

Announcing the winners of the FSF40 Photo Contest

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Thursday, November 6, 2025) — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the winning photo submissions in the FSF40 Photo Contest held in August. [...]

FSF announces Librephone project

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, October 14, 2025) — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its project to bring mobile phone freedom to users. "LibrePhone" is an initiative to reverse-engineer [...]

FSF turns forty with a groundbreaking new project and a new president
FSF confirms Ian Kelling as its new president

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Thursday, October 2, 2025) — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today that Ian Kelling, senior systems administrator for the organization and the first union member to [...]

FSF confirms Alexandre Oliva to board of directors

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Monday, September 22, 2025) — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the addition of Alexandre Oliva to its board of directors after a three month trial [...]

Job opportunity: Program Manager at the Free Software Foundation

This position has been filled. [...]

FSF40: Free software activists to speak on their history of involvement

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Wednesday, September 17, 2025), The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced a panel talk made up of long-time GNU and FSF volunteers will be held at the [...]

Electronic Frontier Foundation, F-Droid, and Sugar Labs leaders to speak at FSF's fortieth anniversary

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, September 10, 2025), The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that representatives from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), F-Droid, and Sugar Labs will speak at the [...]

Job opportunity: Deputy director at the Free Software Foundation (part-time exempt)

This position has been filled. [...]

Decades-long victory, bold Apple survey findings, legal workshop success & our 50th podcast episode
Decades-long victory, bold Apple survey findings, legal workshop success & our 50th podcast episode

In the last weeks, we got the green light to intervene against Apple before the European Court of Justice for the second time (!) while the European Commission has included [...]

EU Tech Sovereignty: A milestone for Public Code? Now implementation is key
EU Tech Sovereignty: A milestone for Public Code? Now implementation is key

The European Commission published its Technological Sovereignty Package on 3 June 2026, containing the new "Open Source Strategy". If implemented, it could mark a paradigm shift by adopting the Free Software [...]

Restack: a new European consortium for a digital Europe
Restack: a new European consortium for a digital Europe

Recent geopolitical events have highlighted Europe's need for a resilient, homegrown technology ecosystem free from critical dependencies. The new Horizon Europe project Restack aims to accomplish it. The FSFE is [...]

DMA: The FSFE intervenes against Apple before European Court of Justice for the second time
DMA: The FSFE intervenes against Apple before European Court of Justice for the second time

The Free Software Foundation Europe has been granted permission to intervene at the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case T-359/25 - Apple against the European Commission. [...]

SFP#51: Policy and EU: The challenges for public code in public administration!

In this monthly Software Freedom Podcast episode we are talking with the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS) and their X-Road, a Free Software well-used in public institutions. Together with [...]

Decades-long victory, bold Apple survey findings, legal workshop success & our 50th podcast episode
Decades-long victory, bold Apple survey findings, legal workshop success & our 50th podcast episode

April brought LLW, where we gathered with Legal Network members to discuss a wide range of legal and licensing topics. One of them was the DMA, legislation that is keeping [...]

FSFE: NHS England should not hide public code behind closed doors
FSFE: NHS England should not hide public code behind closed doors

England’s National Health Service (NHS England) is preparing to make most of its public source code repositories private by default, according to recent reports. The move appears to be based [...]

Victory after a decade preventing Radio Lockdown
Victory after a decade preventing Radio Lockdown

The European Commission is choosing to protect user’s right to install any software on their radio devices by deciding to abandon the specific article in the EU Radio Equipment regulation [...]

LLW 2026: opening legal conversations at the heart of Berlin
LLW 2026: opening legal conversations at the heart of Berlin

Berlin hosted the Free Software Legal & Licensing Workshop 2026, bringing together over 100 legal and compliance professionals, technologists, and policy experts from all over the globe. LLW continued to [...]

Apple keeps challenging its interoperability obligations under the DMA
Apple keeps challenging its interoperability obligations under the DMA

A new FSFE report exposes how 56 interoperability requests under the Digital Markets Act have produced no concrete solutions by Apple, and how their declines contradict their own official documentation, [...]

Georgia Jails Activist for Peaceful Protest

Click to expand Image Zurab Menteshashvili at a protest in Georgia.  © Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media Georgia’s crackdown on dissent reached a dangerous new low last month when a Tbilisi court [...]

Jailed for Calling a Fact a Fact in Mali

The remarks that led to Malian journalists Chahana Takiou and Abdramane Keïta’s arrests were not extraordinary. Click to expand Image Chahana Takiou, Bamako, Mali, June 2026. © Private During a [...]

Bhutan: 2 Political Prisoners Freed, but 28 Remain

Click to expand Image Bhutanese former political prisoners Chatur Man Tamang, left, and Hasta Bahadur Rai, after their release. June 5, 2026.  © Private (Sydney) – The government of Bhutan’s [...]

Azerbaijan: Exiled Critics Convicted in Absentia

Click to expand Image Police officers stand outside a courthouse on January 21, 2025, in Baku, Azerbaijan.  © 2025 Aziz Karimov/Getty Images (Berlin, June 10, 2026) – Azerbaijani authorities are [...]

Sudan: Hold Defecting Armed Group Commanders to Account

Click to expand Image A fighter loyal to the army patrols a market area in Khartoum on March 24, 2025. © 2025 Photo by AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – [...]

EU: Harmful Migration, Asylum Pact in Full Effect

Click to expand Image A Polish border guard stands near a barbed wire fence at the Polish-Belarusian border in Polowce, Poland, July 21, 2025. © 2025 AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski (Brussels) [...]

DR Congo: Rwanda, M23 Forcibly Recruit, Detain Thousands

Click to expand Image An M23 fighter stands guard as people board a truck during an enrollment of civilians, police officers, and former Congolese army soldiers in Goma, Democratic Republic [...]

NBA Risks ‘Sportswashing’ Through Its UAE Ties

Click to expand Image The NBA logo at center court. © 2020 Mark J. Terrill/AP Photo (Beirut) – The National Basketball Association (NBA) risks “sportswashing” the UAE’s egregious human rights record [...]

US States Dismantle Voting Bans Rooted in Racism

Click to expand Image Maryland Governor Wes Moore (center) along with advocates, organizers, and legislators after signing HB 115 and SB 241 at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, May [...]

Jordan: New Application to Challenge Abusive Conviction

Click to expand Image Security members stand guard outside the State Security Court in Amman, Jordan, July 12, 2021. © 2021 Mohammad Abu Ghosh/Xinhua via Getty Images (Beirut) – Jordanian [...]

Egypt’s Answer to Unjust Detentions is More Arrests

Click to expand Image An Egyptian intelligence security detail member stands guard near a banner showing President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. © 2021 Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images In a living-room-sized [...]

US: Global Health Aid Tied to Harmful Conditions

Click to expand Image A client waits to be seen by a doctor during an HIV clinic day at TASO Mulago service center in Kampala, Uganda, February 17, 2025. © [...]

Invest in Education and Justice to Strengthen Rule of Law

Click to expand Image A teacher speaks to students during a lesson at a public school in São Paulo, Brazil on October 18, 2021.  © 2021 Patricia Monteiro/Bloomberg via Getty [...]

Hungarian Prosecutors Drop Pride-Related Charges

Click to expand Image Hungarians march in downtown Budapest to protest against the previous government’s law banning LGBTQ+ Pride events, May 1, 2025. © 2025 Denes Erdos/AP Photo Hungarian prosecutors [...]

Zimbabwe: Opposition Activist Acquitted, Freed After 7 Months

Click to expand Image Police officers outside the Magistrates Court in Harare, Zimbabwe, April 6, 2021. © 2021 Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images (Johannesburg) – A Zimbabwe court on June 3, 2026, acquitted [...]

Yemen: Houthis Should Free UN, Civil Society Staff

Click to expand Image A convoy from the United Nations and World Food Program crosses from Houthi-controlled areas to a government-controlled area to reach grain mills in an eastern suburb [...]

Time for Europe to Recognize the Right to a Healthy Environment

Click to expand Image Karin Kvarfordt Niia, a reindeer herder from Sweden’s Sami community and a member of Sweden’s Sami Parliament, attends the opening session of the 1st European Forum [...]

North Korea’s Forced Labor Reaching EU Supply Chains

Click to expand Image A passenger train from Pyongyang upon arrival at Yaroslavsky Railway Station in Moscow, following the resumption in June 2025 of passenger rail service between the capitals [...]

Russia: Rights Group OVD-Info Designated ‘Extremist’

Click to expand Image An iPhone screen shows the Telegram account of OVD-Info, prominent human rights group in Russia that tracks arbitrary arrests of protestors in Moscow, Russia, December 25, [...]

Indonesia: Flurry of Shoot-on-Sight Orders Risks Lives

Click to expand Image An Indonesian police officer fires tear gas during a demonstration in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, August 29, 2025. © 2025 AP Photo/Trisnadi (Jakarta) – Indonesian authorities [...]

ESP32s3APRS
air quality motherboard for sensor.community project
MSN - MySensors Nodes
M2BLPT
USB Temperature sensor interface
Syma S107g - Bluetooth control mod
SimSpirit Motion Simulator Support 360° Yaw, Pitch and Roll
VR-Shield
Epi 32U4 Arduino-compatible, 4-layer version
Pinect Hand-Free Game Console
Easy Switch Box
6Gang30AmpsLatchRelayEspHomeReady
VikingCube-Midi
VikingCube-WT
VikingCube-MUL
Anna2040 RP2040 Uno-shaped board
Hammar 32 bit 3D printer controller
TinyReflow solder plate
Epi, tiny ATMega32U4 Arduino-compatible
Hematuria Meter
Update on Yorch: Saying Goodbye

Translated from the Spanish-language post on the Auditorio Che Facebook page.Learn more about Mexican anarchist political prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel. December 6, 2025, 3:40pm Dear family, compas, friends, and community: [...]

Update on the repressive situation of Gabriel Pombo da Silva

The latest update on the repressive situation in Italy involving Gabriel Pombo da Silva is as follows: In July 2022, the Italian trial related to the repressive operation “Scripta Manent” [...]

Month of Solidarity for Taylor

Bristol Anarchist Black Cross is calling for a Month of Solidarity for Taylor from November 24th to December 12th. Who was Taylor Taylor was a working-class trans man who spent [...]

Thanks for participating in WOSWAP 2025

Thank you for participating in this year’s International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners.It is important not to forget our comrades in prison, but to work together and build our [...]

Uruguay: Radio Tempestad
Uruguay: Radio Tempestad

Hello comrades, we are writing to you from the territory of Uruguay. We would like to share an audio clip that we took from our radio station for International Solidarity [...]

Komotini, Northern Greece: banner drop & solidarity action

Responding to the international call for solidarity with anarchist prisoners, we placed banners and posters in central locations Freedom for Anarchist Prisoners Around the World Whoever Forgets the Imprisoned Revolutionaries [...]

Vienna, Austria: Poster Campaign for Solidarity Week

Text for the poster campaign as part of the International Week ofSolidarity with Anarchist Prisoners in Vienna Prisons are institutions of violence. Anyone who has ever been locked away behind [...]

Updated version! Starting an Anarchist Black Cross group: a guide

Just in time for this year’s International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners, comrades have revised the zine Starting an Anarchist Black Cross group: a guide. Thanks a lot for [...]

UK, Bristol: LETTER WRITING & TALK W/ TOBY SHONE – SUN 31ST AUG @ 6PM

Letter writing + Talk with Toby Shone for the International Week ofSolidarity with Anarchist Prisoners – BASE Bristol Sunday 31 August 2025 BASE Bristol – Easton – 14 Robertson Road [...]

Prisoner Support Panel Discussion

For the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners The Final Straw radio shared a discussion with three anarchists doing prisoner support in different national contexts, prompted by topics brought [...]

Democracy Needs Friction To Function
Democracy Needs Friction To Function

The post Democracy Needs Friction To Function appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

The Next US Presidential Election Will Be About AI
The Next US Presidential Election Will Be About AI

The post The Next US Presidential Election Will Be About AI appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

What Might The Next Axial Age Look Like?
What Might The Next Axial Age Look Like?

The post What Might The Next Axial Age Look Like? appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

Why Conflict Feels Constant Now
Why Conflict Feels Constant Now

The post Why Conflict Feels Constant Now appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

‘This Is Not Financial Advice’
‘This Is Not Financial Advice’

The post ‘This Is Not Financial Advice’ appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

Pope Leo: AI Wealth Must Be Universally Shared
Pope Leo: AI Wealth Must Be Universally Shared

The post Pope Leo: AI Wealth Must Be Universally Shared appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

How AIs See Our World
How AIs See Our World

The post How AIs See Our World appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

To Understand AI, Think Like A Dragonfly
To Understand AI, Think Like A Dragonfly

The post To Understand AI, Think Like A Dragonfly appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

The Little-Known Nuclear Deal That Could Help Our Climate Crisis
The Little-Known Nuclear Deal That Could Help Our Climate Crisis

The post The Little-Known Nuclear Deal That Could Help Our Climate Crisis appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

There Is A Soul, But Not A Transcendent One
There Is A Soul, But Not A Transcendent One

The post There Is A Soul, But Not A Transcendent One appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

Life and Death

by Rick Lewis [...]

News: June/July 2026

Hertfordshire scraps philosophy • Nancy Cartwright honoured for phil sci work • Cops raid Moscow philosophy institute — News reports by Anja Steinbauer [...]

Philosophers on Butterflies

by Matt Qvortrup [...]

A Critique of Antinatalism

Deniz Kose thinks there’s good reasons to want human life to continue. [...]

Socrates (c.470-399 BCE)

by Terence Green [...]

Making Omelettes & A Future Like Ours

Jimmy Alfonso Licon wonders what’s wrong with killing – first chickens, then humans. [...]

Death as Life’s Picture Frame

Joshua Clements puts us in the picture. [...]

Who Wants to Live Forever?

Dan Pollen weighs up the pros and cons of indefinitely extended life. [...]

Immortality & A Galactic Future

Andy Yee looks forward to humanity’s technological ascension. [...]

Being

by Lisa Roberts [...]

Jürgen Habermas: Defender of the Enlightenment

Patrick West on postmodernism and communicative reason. [...]

Breakfast with Habermas

Matt Qvortrup recalls chat over coffee and scrambled eggs with a champion of reasoned debate. [...]

Margalit & Limits to Political Compromise

Laure Gillot-Assayag reflects on the political philosophy of Avishai Margalit. [...]

Great Minds, Flawed Lives

Tony Shenton asks, should we cancel the compromised intellectual, or read them? [...]

What’s the Value of Mountaineering?

Suleyman Moollan wonders why people climb mountains. [...]

Why Sport Needs Good & Evil

Kola Adeosun & Ato Kenya Rockcliffe on the dynamics of sporting greatness. [...]

Antonio Negri (1933-2023)

Antonio Negri was an Italian political philosopher who in his time courted controversy, and was even jailed for links with Communist organisations. Leonardo Caffo talked with him about the future [...]

Carl Schmitt (1888-1985)

Marco Pandolfini on the ideas of a highly contentious legal theorist. [...]

Letters

Law or Philosophy? • Minds, Machines, Metaphysics • Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom • Kicking Against The Pricks • Education Lessons • Nietzsche Feature • Collapsing The Universe [...]

Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari

Frank S. Robinson ponders our AI future. [...]

Pluralistic: Naomi Kritzer's "Obstetrix" (09 Jun 2026)
Pluralistic: Naomi Kritzer's "Obstetrix" (09 Jun 2026)

Today's links Naomi Kritzer's "Obstetrix": When forced birth cultists become forced obstetrics militants. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DD-WRT; iTunes DRM is illegal; Fingertip magnet; Sony [...]

Pluralistic: Criticizing the everything machine (06 Jun 2026)
Pluralistic: Criticizing the everything machine (06 Jun 2026)

Today's links Criticizing the everything machine: It slices, it dices, it even makes paperclips! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Parliament v DRM; Colbert's commencement; Counterfeiting x [...]

Pluralistic: Refining humanity (05 Jun 2026)
Pluralistic: Refining humanity (05 Jun 2026)

Today's links Refining humanity: What our technology is shows us what we're not. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: GNU Radio; France v "follow us on Twitter"; [...]

Pluralistic: Delusion as a service (04 Jun 2026)
Pluralistic: Delusion as a service (04 Jun 2026)

Today's links Delusion as a service: Destructive diagnostics. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gay Days at Disney World; Parametric 3D printable key; Fine against sculpture for [...]

Pluralistic: The tedious power of storytelling (02 Jun 2026) must-we-pretend
Pluralistic: The tedious power of storytelling (02 Jun 2026) must-we-pretend

Today's links The tedious power of storytelling: "Excitement" is to art as "falsifiablilty" is to science. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Lost Marx Bros musical; USPTO [...]

Pluralistic: Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' (01 Jun 2026)
Pluralistic: Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' (01 Jun 2026)

Today's links Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country': An essential book for this moment and for the moments that led to it. Hey look at this: Delights [...]

Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026)
Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026)

Today's links Carneyism without Carney: Eh? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Replacing pharma patents with bounties; USTR v cheap leukemia meds; Plutocrats x wealth segregation; Anonymous [...]

Pluralistic: Hold on for dear life (28 May 2026)
Pluralistic: Hold on for dear life (28 May 2026)

Today's links Hold on for dear life: Not your keys, not your wallet, entirely your problem. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Who owns "Web 2.0"; EFF [...]

Pluralistic: AI and a world without migrants (27 May 2026)
Pluralistic: AI and a world without migrants (27 May 2026)

Today's links AI and a world without migrants: It's solipsism all the way down. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Manuscript rabbits; "What Will Come After"; Pastejacking; [...]

Pluralistic: The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble (26 May 2026)
Pluralistic: The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble (26 May 2026)

Today's links The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble: No one had to force-feed the web to workers. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Website graveyard; [...]

Pluralistic: No honor among (ad-tech) thieves (25 May 2026)
Pluralistic: No honor among (ad-tech) thieves (25 May 2026)

Today's links No honor among (ad-tech) thieves: Including "and" and "the." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Budweiser nunchuks; GOP vote-suppressor voted illegally; Airbnb enshittifies; Oculus enshittifies; [...]

Pluralistic: Shopping isn't politics (21 May 2026)
Pluralistic: Shopping isn't politics (21 May 2026)

Today's links Shopping isn't politics: The personal isn't political. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Neither arphid nor RFID; Gor novel sex slave cult; Violent economist sex [...]

Pluralistic: There's no such thing as "age verification" (19 May 2026)
Pluralistic: There's no such thing as "age verification" (19 May 2026)

Today's links There's no such thing as "age verification": The foreseeable and foreseen consequences of "something must be done"/"there, I've done something." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object [...]

Pluralistic: Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire (16 May 2026)
Pluralistic: Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire (16 May 2026)

Today's links Making sense of Trump's unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire: Don't mistake "powerful" for "durable." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Copyrighted law; [...]

Pluralistic: No one wants a permanent gerontocracy (15 May 2026)
Pluralistic: No one wants a permanent gerontocracy (15 May 2026)

Today's links No one wants a permanent gerontocracy: The one policy everyone agrees on. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Wolfengitmo; Facebook condemns Google privacy invasion; Michael [...]

Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" (14 May 2026)
Pluralistic: Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" (14 May 2026)

Today's links Kickstarting "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI": How to be a better AI critic. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIP Douglas Adams; [...]

Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026)
Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026)

Today's links Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm: AGI works best in a K-hole. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Woz's remotes; Furbeowulf; Vinge [...]

Pluralistic: A fascist paradigm (12 May 2026)
Pluralistic: A fascist paradigm (12 May 2026)

Today's links A fascist paradigm: The change that changed everything. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Openstreetmap x Isle of Wight; Found grocery lists; Mayor wants to [...]

Pluralistic: 2024 (apart from the obvious) (11 May 2026)
Pluralistic: 2024 (apart from the obvious) (11 May 2026)

Today's links 2024 (apart from the obvious): Some unforced errors. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Denmark legalizing music trading; Babysuit; Patent Office invites "peer review"; DRM [...]

Pluralistic: Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox (09 May 2026)
Pluralistic: Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox (09 May 2026)

Today's links Trump's fruitless search for a goreable ox: You can keep billionaires happy, or you can fight the cost of living crisis, but not both. Hey look at this: [...]

Bad Vibes: AI coding tools and privacy issues
How New EU Access to Documents Rules Can Reduce Transparency and Shield Big Tech
The ILO Convention on decent work in the platform economy
Privacy International’s submission to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the protection of human rights defenders in the digital age
Collateral Damage: Grok AI and the Human Cost of Generative AI
From Big Oil to Big Algorithm: Public Money in Private Models
Dual-use tech: the BAE Systems example
Dual-use tech: the Lockheed Martin example
Voter Disenfranchisement: A Privacy Issue
What is digital fingerprinting: Is my device ever truly anonymous?
An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis
An Early Step on the Long, Strange Road to Photosynthesis

An ancient lineage of cyanobacteria is helping biologists uncover an early evolutionary stage of the mind-boggling process that turns light into life. The post An Early Step on the Long, [...]

How Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math
How Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area [...]

Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?
Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?

In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic. The post Are Memories Transferable [...]

More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’
More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’

The podcast returns with 12 all-new episodes that explore the biggest questions in basic science and mathematics. The post More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of [...]

Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity.
Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity.

In holographic theories, physicists may have traced the pliability of space-time to its quantum roots: a measure of quantumness known as “magic.” The post Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives [...]

Ofcom’s Crisis Censorship Protocol Arrives Just as Belfast Erupts
Ofcom’s Crisis Censorship Protocol Arrives Just as Belfast Erupts

A direct hotline between police and platform moderation desks is just a state-to-delete pipeline without the paperwork or a court order. The post Ofcom’s Crisis Censorship Protocol Arrives Just as [...]

Your Town for $300M: Surveillance State, On Sale
Your Town for $300M: Surveillance State, On Sale

Buried beneath the law-and-order slogans is a procurement list that doubles as the blueprint for permanent surveillance. The post Your Town for $300M: Surveillance State, On Sale appeared first on [...]

Caught Again: Meta Says NSO Still Stalking WhatsApp
Caught Again: Meta Says NSO Still Stalking WhatsApp

The company never had to break WhatsApp's encryption, only to get someone to tap a link. The post Caught Again: Meta Says NSO Still Stalking WhatsApp appeared first on Reclaim [...]

The White House’s AI Deal: Kill State Laws, Demand Your ID
The White House’s AI Deal: Kill State Laws, Demand Your ID

Silicon Valley gets the regulatory shield it's been lobbying for and all it costs is the end of the anonymous internet. The post The White House’s AI Deal: Kill State [...]

How a Bad AI Camera Hit Put the Wrong Man in a San Diego Jail Cell
How a Bad AI Camera Hit Put the Wrong Man in a San Diego Jail Cell

The officers had a timestamp that ruled him out, a missing gun, and the wrong hoodie color, but the algorithm's answer outranked all of it. The post How a Bad [...]

Starmer Calls for Spyware on All Phones
Starmer Calls for Spyware on All Phones

It is sold as a child-lock and built as a search warrant for every phone in the country. The post Starmer Calls for Spyware on All Phones appeared first on [...]

UK Encryption Backdoor Could Hit US Data, Jordan Warns
UK Encryption Backdoor Could Hit US Data, Jordan Warns

Britain's quiet encryption powers may now reach the phones of Americans who never agreed to them. The post UK Encryption Backdoor Could Hit US Data, Jordan Warns appeared first on [...]

Japan Plans Social Media Age Checks via Carrier Data
Japan Plans Social Media Age Checks via Carrier Data

The fix Tokyo prefers would link the phone account in your legal name to everything you read, post, and scroll past. The post Japan Plans Social Media Age Checks via [...]

What to Like and What to Question About Europe’s New Open Source Office Push
What to Like and What to Question About Europe’s New Open Source Office Push

The same governments selling you a sovereign office suite are the ones legislating their way past the encryption it would run on. The post What to Like and What to [...]

UK Wants Message Scanning on Phones, Jail CEOs Who Refuse
UK Wants Message Scanning on Phones, Jail CEOs Who Refuse

Refusing to install state spyware would put tech executives in prison for five years. The post UK Wants Message Scanning on Phones, Jail CEOs Who Refuse appeared first on Reclaim [...]

After Decades of Failure, ‘Undruggable’ Cancers Begin to Give Way
After Decades of Failure, ‘Undruggable’ Cancers Begin to Give Way

New drugs are taking on the slippery molecular switches that fuel deadly cancers—and AI is speeding up the hunt. The post After Decades of Failure, ‘Undruggable’ Cancers Begin to Give [...]

Orbital Airbag Could Shield Earth From Devastating Solar Storms
Orbital Airbag Could Shield Earth From Devastating Solar Storms

A planetary defense system would blunt solar storms with hundreds of tons of gas. Emerging heavy-lift rockets could deploy it in under two months. The post Orbital Airbag Could Shield [...]

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 7)
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 7)

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through June 7) [...]

Toxic Clumps in Huntington’s Disease May Protect the Brain Too
Toxic Clumps in Huntington’s Disease May Protect the Brain Too

The findings could lead to new treatments for multiple neurodegenerative diseases. The post Toxic Clumps in Huntington’s Disease May Protect the Brain Too appeared first on SingularityHub. [...]

AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments Without Human Hands. We Aren’t Ready for the Risk to Biosecurity.
AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments Without Human Hands. We Aren’t Ready for the Risk to Biosecurity.

The gap between what AI can do in biology and what governance systems are prepared to handle is growing. The post AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments [...]

Three Countries Own the Lithium Market. An MIT Startup Wants to Break Their Grip.
Three Countries Own the Lithium Market. An MIT Startup Wants to Break Their Grip.

A new process for mining lithium-rich rock could slash costs and pollution—and decentralize global lithium production. The post Three Countries Own the Lithium Market. An MIT Startup Wants to Break [...]

How Fast Are You Aging? New Genetic Clock May Have the Answer
How Fast Are You Aging? New Genetic Clock May Have the Answer

A huge analysis of gene expression across species revealed genetic hallmarks of aging and could accelerate anti-aging treatments. The post How Fast Are You Aging? New Genetic Clock May Have [...]

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 30)
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 30)

Every week, we scour the web for important, insightful, and fascinating stories in science and technology. The post This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through May 30) [...]

Sodium Is Cheap, Abundant, and Now Powering Batteries That Could Rival Lithium
Sodium Is Cheap, Abundant, and Now Powering Batteries That Could Rival Lithium

Sodium-ion batteries are rapidly gaining on lithium in consistency and fast charging. The post Sodium Is Cheap, Abundant, and Now Powering Batteries That Could Rival Lithium appeared first on SingularityHub. [...]

An AI Solution to an 80‑Year‑Old Problem Has Shocked Mathematicians
An AI Solution to an 80‑Year‑Old Problem Has Shocked Mathematicians

AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The post An AI Solution to an 80‑Year‑Old Problem Has Shocked Mathematicians [...]

Microsoft Defender 'RoguePlanet' Zero-Day Grants SYSTEM Privileges
Microsoft Defender 'RoguePlanet' Zero-Day Grants SYSTEM Privileges

A researcher using the name Nightmare Eclipse has released a new Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit called "RoguePlanet," which reportedly works on fully patched Windows 10 and 11 systems and can [...]

Visa Plugs Its Payment Network Into ChatGPT
Visa Plugs Its Payment Network Into ChatGPT

Visa is integrating its payment network with ChatGPT so AI agents can shop and complete purchases on users' behalf. "It means AI agents can not only recommend products but complete [...]

Valve Discontinues Physical Steam Gift Cards Due To Scammers
Valve Discontinues Physical Steam Gift Cards Due To Scammers

Valve is discontinuing physical Steam Gift Cards and says it will stop restocking them as retailers sell through remaining inventory. In a blog post, the company blamed persistent gift card [...]

Threats Against Politicians Tripled After Meta Changed Its Speech Rules
Threats Against Politicians Tripled After Meta Changed Its Speech Rules

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Last year, Meta radically overhauled the rules around what content it would allow on its platforms. The company claimed that its own [...]

BYD To Install Thousands of 5-Minute EV Chargers Across Europe
BYD To Install Thousands of 5-Minute EV Chargers Across Europe

BYD plans to install 3,000 ultra-fast "Flash Chargers" across Europe by the end of 2027, with the first stations already appearing in Germany and the UK. The Verge reports: At [...]

macOS 27 Beta Boots Asahi Linux Off Apple Silicon
macOS 27 Beta Boots Asahi Linux Off Apple Silicon

The Asahi Linux team is warning Apple Silicon users not to upgrade to the macOS 27 beta because Apple's changes to the boot picker and Startup Disk app make Asahi [...]

German Court Holds Google Liable For False AI Overview Answers
German Court Holds Google Liable For False AI Overview Answers

A Munich regional court has ruled (PDF) that Google can be held directly liable for false claims in AI Overviews. The case involved AI Overviews falsely linking two publishers to [...]

Seattle Enacts Year-Long Ban On New AI Datacenters
Seattle Enacts Year-Long Ban On New AI Datacenters

Seattle has enacted a one-year moratorium on new datacenters, making it the largest U.S. city to do so as the backlash against AI infrastructure grows across the country. The city [...]

Microsoft Smashes Record For Biggest Ever Patch Tuesday Update
Microsoft Smashes Record For Biggest Ever Patch Tuesday Update

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ComputerWeekly: Microsoft has issued patches for about 200 flaws in its latest monthly Patch Tuesday drop, blasting past a previous record high of [...]

Commonwealth Fusion Makes the Physics Case For Its 400 MW Reactor
Commonwealth Fusion Makes the Physics Case For Its 400 MW Reactor

Commonwealth Fusion has published five peer-reviewed papers laying out the physics case for ARC, its planned 400 MW fusion power plant, which would follow the company's smaller SPARC tokamak now [...]

NASA Announces Astronauts For Its Artemis III Mission
NASA Announces Astronauts For Its Artemis III Mission

NASA has named Randy Bresnik, Luca Parmitano, Frank Rubio, and Andre Douglas as the crew for Artemis III, which has been reworked from a moon-landing mission into a roughly two-week [...]

FCC Wants To Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms To Get All Customers' IDs
FCC Wants To Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms To Get All Customers' IDs

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to make it effectively impossible for people to buy what many call burner phones -- [...]

US Labels BYD, Baidu, Alibaba and Other Tech Giants As Aiding China's Military
US Labels BYD, Baidu, Alibaba and Other Tech Giants As Aiding China's Military

The Pentagon has added Alibaba, BYD, Baidu, Unitree, and other Chinese companies to its list of firms it says support China's military, barring them from U.S. defense contracts. The companies [...]

EU Orders Meta To Open WhatsApp To Rival AI Chatbots
EU Orders Meta To Open WhatsApp To Rival AI Chatbots

The European Commission has ordered Meta to temporarily restore free WhatsApp Business API access for rival AI chatbots while it investigates whether Meta's ban on third-party assistants abuses its dominant [...]

Anthropic Releases Claude Fable, a 'Safe' Version of Mythos
Anthropic Releases Claude Fable, a 'Safe' Version of Mythos

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class AI model for enterprise customers and paid subscribers. The company says broader access is possible thanks to new safeguards that block high-risk [...]

Anarchist Tranny Against Civilization - The Unspoken
Anarchist Tranny Against Civilization - The Unspoken

Author: Anarchist Tranny Against CivilizationTitle: The UnspokenDate: 01/05/2023 Social dislocation is a fundamental aspect of trans experience. Some of the most notable characteristics that trans people share are a product [...]

Fifth Estate Collective - Crisis in Iran—none for me, thanks
Fifth Estate Collective - Crisis in Iran—none for me, thanks

Author: Fifth Estate CollectiveTitle: Crisis in Iran—none for me, thanksDate: 1979, December 4Source: Accessed June 6, 2026 at Fifth Estate #300, December 4, 1979 (https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/300-december-4-1979/crisis-in-iran-none-for-me-thanks/) Iran: the Ayatollah captures the [...]

Anarchist Tranny Against Civilization - What We’ve Forgotten During the Ceasefire
Anarchist Tranny Against Civilization - What We’ve Forgotten During the Ceasefire

Author: Anarchist Tranny Against CivilizationTitle: What We’ve Forgotten During the CeasefireSubtitle: Social Bonds and Guerrilla WarfareDate: 01/05/2025 Revolutionary violence is the kindest possible approach to ending gendered violence. Breaking out [...]

ATAC - Abandoning Hope, Abandoning Hopelessness
ATAC - Abandoning Hope, Abandoning Hopelessness

Author: ATACTitle: Abandoning Hope, Abandoning HopelessnessDate: 01/05/2025 Right now many of us are staring doom in the face and asking to see more, unable to stop watching, unable to take [...]

Anarchist Tranny Against Civilization - Killing The Cop In Your Head
Anarchist Tranny Against Civilization - Killing The Cop In Your Head

Author: Anarchist Tranny Against CivilizationTitle: Killing The Cop In Your HeadSubtitle: Essentialism, phenomenology and liberation.Date: 02/03/2025 There is a war being waged on our minds. Not just the propaganda war [...]

ANVI - Solidarity with CIPO-RFM in the struggle against Indigenous femicide!
ANVI - Solidarity with CIPO-RFM in the struggle against Indigenous femicide!

Author: ANVITitle: Solidarity with CIPO-RFM in the struggle against Indigenous femicide!Subtitle: Justice for Roxana López Martínez!Date: June 5, 2026Source: Retrieved on June 5, 2026 from https://anarchistnetwork.info/statement-of-solidarity/ “Victoria” Chapter The anarchist [...]

Klee Benally - No Spiritual Surrender
Klee Benally - No Spiritual Surrender

Author: Klee BenallyTitle: No Spiritual SurrenderSubtitle: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the SacredDate: November 18, 2023Notes: No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred is a searing anti-colonial [...]

Various Authors - Insurrectional Anarchism
Various Authors - Insurrectional Anarchism

Author: Various AuthorsTitle: Insurrectional AnarchismSubtitle: A ReaderDate: 2005Notes: Footnote 26 was missing in the source PDF, so taken from the old journal website: Source:   In 2005, the Swedish review [...]

anonymous - Stash This Text! (Or Even Better, Burn It)
anonymous - Stash This Text! (Or Even Better, Burn It)

Author: anonymousTitle: Stash This Text! (Or Even Better, Burn It)Date: 2026/04/21Source: https://unravel.noblogs.org/stash-this-text/ Imagine that you and your friends are engaged in some sort of resistance effort. Someone gets identified. Law [...]

Freedom News - The Met spychief who infiltrated Freedom Press
Freedom News - The Met spychief who infiltrated Freedom Press

Author: Freedom NewsTitle: The Met spychief who infiltrated Freedom PressDate: 24 March 2026Notes: Exclusive investigation by Freedom News on one of their former members.Source: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2018/03/24/roger-pearce-infiltrated-freedom-press/ Exclusive: The Met spychief who [...]

Emmett Doyle - Worker Resistance to ICE
Emmett Doyle - Worker Resistance to ICE

Author: Emmett DoyleTitle: Worker Resistance to ICEDate: 2026, SummerSource: Scanned from Anarcho-Syndicalist Review #94, Summer, 2026, page 10 On January 23, 2026, workers in Minneapolis embarked on what has been [...]

Manuel R. Torres-Soriano - On the margins of terrorist propaganda
Manuel R. Torres-Soriano - On the margins of terrorist propaganda

Author: Manuel R. Torres-SorianoTitle: On the margins of terrorist propagandaSubtitle: Individualities Tending Toward Wildness (ITS) and the non-persuasive communication of ecoextremismDate: 30 Apr 2026Source: Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict. Author affiliation: [...]

Palang Hitam - Update on the May Day 2026 Anarchist Prisoners (Indonesia)
Palang Hitam - Update on the May Day 2026 Anarchist Prisoners (Indonesia)

Author: Palang HitamTitle: Update on the May Day 2026 Anarchist Prisoners (Indonesia)Date: 16 May 2026Source: Darknights (https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2026/05/16/update-on-may-day-2026-anarchist-prisoner-tahanan-anarkis-m1-2026-indonesia/) Since Wednesday (13/05/2026), police, through local media outlets, have claimed to have arrested [...]

Freedom Press - At our Best
Freedom Press - At our Best

Author: Freedom PressTitle: At our BestDate: April 1892Source: Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism, Vol. 6, No. 65, online source Libcom, retrieved on 22 May 2026. We tell thee, poor [...]

Walker C. Smith - Sabotage
Walker C. Smith - Sabotage

Author: Walker C. SmithTitle: SabotageSubtitle: Its History, Philosophy & FunctionDate: 1913Notes: 1917 edition; originally published in 1913. Transcribed by J. D. Crutchfield from a scan kindly supplied by Lisa & [...]

Václav Havel - The Power of the Powerless
Václav Havel - The Power of the Powerless

Author: Václav HavelTitle: The Power of the PowerlessDate: October 1978Source: Retrieved on 2012-01-07 via the Internet Archive at   To the memory of Jan Patocka “The Power of the Powerless” [...]

anon. - An Open Letter From Cuban Anarchists
anon. - An Open Letter From Cuban Anarchists

Author: anon.Title: An Open Letter From Cuban AnarchistsDate: 2003Source: Fifth Estate # 363, Winter, 2003/2004, retrieved on 14 May 2026 from https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/363-winter-20032004/an-open-letter-from-cuban-anarchists/ Dear comrades, As you might be aware, the [...]

Muswell Hillbillie - Review of Dolgoff Cuba Book
Muswell Hillbillie - Review of Dolgoff Cuba Book

Author: Muswell HillbillieTitle: Review of Dolgoff Cuba BookSubtitle: Cuba Book Avoids Crucial QuestionsDate: September 1977Source: Fifth Estate # 286, September, 1977, retrieved on 14 May 2026 from https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/286-september-1977/review-of-dolgoff-cuba-book/ a review [...]

Quincy B. Thorn - Anarchists Confront the Marxist State in Cuba
Quincy B. Thorn - Anarchists Confront the Marxist State in Cuba

Author: Quincy B. ThornTitle: Anarchists Confront the Marxist State in CubaSubtitle: Whee! Airbnb announces 2000 available Cuban listings; The New York Times has full page ads for travel to the [...]

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional - The Tree, The Rock, and the Morrow
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional - The Tree, The Rock, and the Morrow

Author: Ejército Zapatista de Liberación NacionalTitle: The Tree, The Rock, and the MorrowSubtitle: A Zapatist StoryDate: December 19, 2024Notes: Transcribed and translated by Ediciones Bloodfruit/Malvivientes from Mesa Rebeldía y Resistencia [...]

Ukraine strikes Russian “shadow fleet” tanker West Horizon in the Black Sea
Ukraine strikes Russian “shadow fleet” tanker West Horizon in the Black Sea

Ukrainian forces attacked the Russian “shadow fleet” tanker West Horizon (IMO 9337327) in the Black Sea overnight on June 10, according to a statement released by Ukraine’s General Staff on social media [...]

Investigative Committee calls second June 9 Moscow car blast “attempted killing of research and production worker” without naming target
Investigative Committee calls second June 9 Moscow car blast “attempted killing of research and production worker” without naming target

A June 9 car explosion on Vvedensky Street in Moscow — the second blast to have occurred on that day — was an “attempted assassination” of an employee of one [...]

Russian general killed in blast outside Moscow identified as Damir Davydov, MoD official responsible for ammunition supplies to front
Russian general killed in blast outside Moscow identified as Damir Davydov, MoD official responsible for ammunition supplies to front

The general killed on June 9 in an explosion in the Moscow Region town of Balashikha was Lt. Gen. Damir Davydov, the Russian Defense Ministry official responsible for supplying missiles [...]

The loyalty test: Trump’s purge of moderate Republicans is an electoral gift to the Democrats
The loyalty test: Trump’s purge of moderate Republicans is an electoral gift to the Democrats

With November’s mid-term elections fast approaching, Donald Trump has decided to use the Republican primaries as a weapon to fight fellow partisans whom he considers to be insufficiently loyal to [...]

First evidence emerges of Russia transporting fuel to Crimea using military trucks disguised as civilian vehicles
First evidence emerges of Russia transporting fuel to Crimea using military trucks disguised as civilian vehicles

On June 6, Vladyslav Voloshyn, a spokesperson for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), said the command of Russia’s Dnepr grouping of troops had ordered the mass use of civilian vehicles [...]

Fuel disruptions spread from occupied Crimea to Russia’s Krasnodar Region as governor blames “artificial rush”
Fuel disruptions spread from occupied Crimea to Russia’s Krasnodar Region as governor blames “artificial rush”

Residents of Russia’s southern Krasnodar Region have begun reporting gasoline shortages at filling stations, with local media and Telegram channels saying problems with availability have been observed in the cities [...]

Disruptions from unidentified drones cost German aviation industry close to €160 million in 2025
Disruptions from unidentified drones cost German aviation industry close to €160 million in 2025

German airports were fully or partially closed 116 times in 2025 due to unidentified drone flights, with at least 226 drone sightings recorded during the year, according to a report by Der [...]

“Mr. Ivanishvili thinks that everybody is plotting against him,” Salomé Zourabichvili tells The Insider
“Mr. Ivanishvili thinks that everybody is plotting against him,” Salomé Zourabichvili tells The Insider

Bidzina Ivanishvili's Georgian regime has become so saturated with its own propaganda about a foreign "deep state" that it has begun to see threats emanating even from within its inner [...]

Investigation shows Russia plans to produce 72 Mi-8 helicopters in two years, potentially offsetting war losses
Investigation shows Russia plans to produce 72 Mi-8 helicopters in two years, potentially offsetting war losses

Russia plans to produce 72 Mi-8MTV-1 helicopters at the Kazan Aircraft Plant over the next two years, including 37 by the end of 2026, according to minutes from a meeting [...]

NATO forces shoot down drone over Latvia for the first time as another UAV explodes in Moldova
NATO forces shoot down drone over Latvia for the first time as another UAV explodes in Moldova

For the first time, NATO air force jets patrolling the skies over the Baltic states have shot down a drone over Latvia, according to a statement released by the country’s Defense [...]

Russia launches drone strike on spent nuclear fuel facility at Chornobyl, radiation levels remain normal
Russia launches drone strike on spent nuclear fuel facility at Chornobyl, radiation levels remain normal

Russia struck the site of the Centralized Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility near the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant with a drone in the early hours of June 7, as announced [...]

A second round of interference: After Pashinyan’s election victory, Moscow is set to increase its economic pressure on Armenia
A second round of interference: After Pashinyan’s election victory, Moscow is set to increase its economic pressure on Armenia

Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections ended with a victory for the Civil Contract party led by the country’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan. The party received 49.8% of the vote, which, [...]

Armenia’s Pashinyan wins election but fails to secure constitutional majority, faces risk of new escalation with Azerbaijan
Armenia’s Pashinyan wins election but fails to secure constitutional majority, faces risk of new escalation with Azerbaijan

Civil Contract, the party of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, won the country’s June 7 parliamentary elections, receiving 49.8% of the vote, according to preliminary official results from the Central Electoral [...]

Satellites detect fire at Russian Navy arsenal near St. Petersburg after Ukrainian drone attack, authorities close forest for demining
Satellites detect fire at Russian Navy arsenal near St. Petersburg after Ukrainian drone attack, authorities close forest for demining

The Insider has examined NASA FIRMS data and found several thermal anomalies near a site by the village of Bolshaya Izhora, which open sources link to the Russian Navy’s 15th [...]

“Zelensky fears coup,” “Russia hasn’t even started yet”: Kremlin bots launch wave of disinfo after the Ukrainian president’s letter to Putin
“Zelensky fears coup,” “Russia hasn’t even started yet”: Kremlin bots launch wave of disinfo after the Ukrainian president’s letter to Putin

The Kremlin-linked bot network Matryoshka has launched a new disinformation campaign targeting Volodymyr Zelensky. Dozens of videos are spreading on the social network X (formerly Twitter) styled as reports by [...]

Georgia detains Russian citizen wanted by FBI on suspicion of violating sanctions by supplying aircraft parts to Russia
Georgia detains Russian citizen wanted by FBI on suspicion of violating sanctions by supplying aircraft parts to Russia

Georgia has detained Russian citizen Tatyana Kurashkevich at the request of the United States. U.S. authorities suspect her of evading sanctions and supplying aircraft parts to Russia after the start [...]

Scientists name Russian early-warning satellites as a source of GPS interference across Europe
Scientists name Russian early-warning satellites as a source of GPS interference across Europe

Russian Tundra-series satellites belonging to the EKS system are causing brief GPS signal disruptions across Europe, according to the findings of a recent study by scientists at the University of [...]

“Anti-colonial” energy sources: Latin America has become one of the drivers of the green transition
“Anti-colonial” energy sources: Latin America has become one of the drivers of the green transition

The energy crisis triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been a serious challenge for the transition to renewable energy sources. Many feared that coal consumption would [...]

U.S. nuclear deployment in Lithuania would not change the balance between NATO and Russia, experts tell The Insider
U.S. nuclear deployment in Lithuania would not change the balance between NATO and Russia, experts tell The Insider

The hypothetical deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons or dual-capable aircraft in Lithuania would do little to change the military balance between NATO and Russia, but could serve as an additional [...]

High-ranking Russian Orthodox priest accused of sexual harassment reassigned to Brazil after Czech police find “white substance” in his car
High-ranking Russian Orthodox priest accused of sexual harassment reassigned to Brazil after Czech police find “white substance” in his car

Metropolitan Hilarion, a senior bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), has been reassigned to serve in the Diocese of Argentina and South America, according to a decree recently issued by [...]

How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James
How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James

"It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything." [...]

Robert Louis Stevenson on Falling in Love and Loving Beyond the Fall
Robert Louis Stevenson on Falling in Love and Loving Beyond the Fall

It seems odd, wrong even, that “patience” and “passion” — the twin roots of love — should share a root in pāti, Latin for “to suffer.” But anyone who has [...]

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name

"Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined." [...]

Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life
Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life

We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting [...]

J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”
J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

"Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else (make something new), may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds." [...]

How Nature Imagined the Figment of You
How Nature Imagined the Figment of You

It is there like a constant whisper, like a ceaseless gust of thought rustling through the canopy of the collective mind: the haunting sense that ours is a particularly difficult [...]

How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older
How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older

"In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves." [...]

A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music
A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music

"Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came." [...]

Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storyteller
Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storyteller

Toni Morrison once lamented that people have been taught to think of a book as a mirror, when it ought to be a door. All great storytelling — be it [...]

Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance

One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political [...]

Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor
Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor

At the hazy dawn of the twentieth century, through the byways of mental meandering and mathematical play, Albert Einstein arrived at a revelation about the nature of the universe while [...]

The Three Elements of the Good Life
The Three Elements of the Good Life

To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of [...]

An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection
An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection

"We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship." [...]

Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure
Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure

Few things in life are more devastating than to give something your all and still fail. Not the “fail better” of startup culture, not the “fail forward” of self-help, not [...]

The Only Three Distinctions Between People
The Only Three Distinctions Between People

It may be that consciousness evolved to sieve the relevant from the incomprehensible allness of all there is, to parse the world into concepts and find an organizing principle for [...]

Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations
Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations

"In broaching the possibility of being, in some way, against self-criticism, we have to imagine a world in which celebration is less suspect than criticism." [...]

How Phrenology Queered Language: Walt Whitman and the Evolving Lexicon of Love
How Phrenology Queered Language: Walt Whitman and the Evolving Lexicon of Love

This essay is adapted from Traversal and continues the story of the making of Leaves of Grass. With Leaves of Grass already printed — by a Brooklyn friend, at the [...]

Existentialist Embroidery
Existentialist Embroidery

The summer I turned forty, my maternal grandmother, then ninety, gave me an astonishing embroidery she had completed it when she was my age after, having worked on it for [...]

Swimming and the Meaning of Life
Swimming and the Meaning of Life

One of my earliest and most vivid childhood memories is of swimming in a cool pool bounded by boulders in the middle of a river in the mountains of Bulgaria, [...]

How Not to Dwell on the Past
How Not to Dwell on the Past

“We can never go back,” bell hooks wrote in her moving reckoning with love. “We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until [...]

[apt update] gives numerous repeated warnings: failed to start delayed item

Many, many lines of this warning past beyond gnome-terminal buffer. This is the second time this happens in a couple days. $ sudo apt update [....] Warning: Tried to start [...]

Rythmnbox audio loop

Thinkpad X230 OS boot (libreboot) 8GB RAM, 11.0.1 Aramo 64-bit, Kernel Linux 5.15.0-179-generic x86_64, MATE 1.26.0, intel® Core™ i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz × 4 Hello, I use rythmnbox for online [...]

best gpu acceleration?

i started a pc build intending it for trisquel and, as i do a fair bit of video editing and some light gaming, i wanted to get some clarification on [...]

[lightdm] password box sporadically vanishes, while password input still works

The mouse pointer indicates the field to be filled with the password, but the white box does not appear, nor does the typed characters. However login works just fine with [...]

Revolt (Matrix Chat client) not working after upgrade to Trisquel 12 Ecne
Revolt (Matrix Chat client) not working after upgrade to Trisquel 12 Ecne

I have just upgraded to Trisquel 12 Ecne using Software Updater. The upgrade went smoothly, just as it did when upgrading from 10 to 11. All upgraded programs work without [...]

The Best TV without Smart TV, Google TV, or other Junk.

Hi everyone. Does anyone know of any companies that make Smart TVs without Google TV and other junk? With a 2K screen or, better yet, 4K? I’m planning to buy [...]

Update failure

I tried to upgrade from the updater. At first it threw a message Waiting for ecne to exit. It got stuck so I finally rebooted and tried again. Now am [...]

Would it be a good idea to recommend fedora media writer instead of UUI as in the documentation?

fedora media writer is a free software to flash images to usb. I find it to be a more modern than UUI, and last time I checked UUI does not [...]

Diff with each change in the whole "function"

I found that diff has an option "--show-function-line=regexp" that "finds the nearest unchanged line that precedes each hunk of differences and matches the given regular expression. Then it adds that [...]

Little laptops : recommendations?

Hi everyone, Do you have a favourite lightweight laptop? I used to have a Asus C201 (rip) I'm looking to replace. I want a cheap and light secondary computer to [...]

Uranium Mining Permit Hearing in Black Hills Halted
Uranium Mining Permit Hearing in Black Hills Halted

A uranium mining permit hearing in the Black Hills of South Dakota was abruptly halted after opponents filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the state violated their due process during [...]

Philly Activists’ Hunger Strike Pushes Community Demands for Budget Surplus
Philly Activists’ Hunger Strike Pushes Community Demands for Budget Surplus

Philly activists engage in hunger strike under the banner of Make Philly Affordable, demanding the Philadelphia mayor use a record budget surplus to fund food access, affordable housing, education, recreation [...]

Israel Passes Law to Execute Palestinian Prisoners by Hanging
Israel Passes Law to Execute Palestinian Prisoners by Hanging

Israel's Knesset passed a discriminatory law that mandates Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks be killed by hanging. The bill is expected to be struck down by Israel's Supreme Court. The [...]

Anger Grows in Exarcheia After Court Ruling on Metro Construction Site
Anger Grows in Exarcheia After Court Ruling on Metro Construction Site

Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in opposition to the redevelopment initiatives of the touristification, gentrification, and the construction of a metro station in Exarcheia Square.  The post Anger Grows in Exarcheia [...]

Authorities in Minnesota Kill 9 People, Shoot 14 in Last Six Months
Authorities in Minnesota Kill 9 People, Shoot 14 in Last Six Months

Law enforcement officers in Minnesota have shot at least 14 people across the state in the past six months, killing 9 of them. Three shootings were by federal officers, and [...]

SPLC Misinformation Circles the Drain in Latest House Judiciary Committee Hearing
SPLC Misinformation Circles the Drain in Latest House Judiciary Committee Hearing

Washington, D.C. — The U.S. House Judiciary Committee convened on May 20 to hold a hearing titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate.” The hearing was a follow-up to [...]

The Continuing Humiliations of White Supremacist Jake Lang
The Continuing Humiliations of White Supremacist Jake Lang

Edward Jacob “Jake” Lang was arrested again on May 21, setting a pattern that began this year when he vandalized an ice sculpture in Minnesota that read “Prosecute ICE” during [...]

WITNESS Calls for Stronger AI Transparency Standards in the EU Code of Practice

Over the last months, stakeholders all over Europe have been united around the goal of coming up with clearer rules for AI transparency and AI-generated or manipulated content. These efforts [...]

WITNESS Raises Concerns to Meta Oversight Board on Generative AI in Elections

On 7 May 2026, WITNESS submitted a public comment to Meta’s Oversight Board, an independent body that reviews Meta’s content moderation decisions, in response to a case involving an AI-generated [...]

WITNESS welcomes new board members

WITNESS is pleased to welcome Irene Mwendwa, Raffi Krikorian, and Suzanne Stoller to its Board of Directors. Bringing experience across technology, human rights, public policy, organizational leadership, and advocacy, the [...]

Meta Oversight Board Decision on AI-Generated Conflict Video Validates WITNESS’ Long-Standing Warnings, Now Meta Must Act

Today, the Meta Oversight Board, which reviews Meta’s content moderation decisions and makes policy recommendations to Meta for Facebook and Instagram, published its decision concerning an AI-generated video purporting to [...]

WITNESS Named Beneficiary of Proton Lifetime Charity Fundraiser

WITNESS is thrilled and honored to announce we have been named as a beneficiary of the Proton Lifetime Charity Fundraiser organized by the Proton Foundation, the governing non-profit organization behind [...]

WITNESS Submits Public Comment to Meta Oversight Board on AI-Generated Sexual Exploitation

Meta ignored recommendations from its Oversight Board on the last AI non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) case and continues to fail in addressing the structural issues with technology-facilitated gender-based violence.   WITNESS [...]

India’s Synthetic Media Rules Build Enforcement on the Wrong Foundation

On 20 February 2026, India’s Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026 come into force. The rules, notified by the Ministry of Electronics and Information [...]

Trust in What We See: What the AI Impact Summit Must Get Right on Audiovisual Truth

A welcome shift, an incomplete frame Global leaders are convening in New Delhi for the India AI Impact Summit 2026, the first in this series to be hosted by a [...]

Privacy-First Transparency: WITNESS Response to the First Draft EU AI Act Code of Practice

When you interact with a chatbot, view a deepfake video, or encounter AI-generated content online, should you know about it? This question sits at the heart of one of the [...]

Civil society coalition launches campaign calling for Direct-to-Cell satellite connectivity amid Iran’s internet shutdowns

Iran’s government-imposed internet shutdown amid nationwide protests highlights the urgent need for crisis-ready connectivity. With millions cut off from the rest of the world, we’re calling on technology companies and [...]

Tactics at Delaney Hall: A Strategic Appraisal : With Interviews from the Front Lines

Starting on May 22, a hunger and labor strike inside Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey catalyzed daily demonstrations outside the facility, creating the most visible flashpoint in [...]

May day 2k26

We at Saguaros and Sabotage are proud to bring you this submission of a May Day reportback, published on Anarchist time midway through June. A great thanks to all those [...]

Blood for blood. True anti-authoritarian resistance is becoming a part of Ukraine’s everyday life amid the silence abroad

We republish this article from the Ukrainian anarchist group Assembly: The step-by-step normalisation of responding by those without ties and money to buy themselves off the army with their own [...]

Workers must stand up against hate and division: IWW

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) expresses its shock and revulsion following yesterday’s brutal knife attack in North Belfast. We extend our solidarity with the person currently recovering in [...]

An Injury to one, is an injury to all: IWW

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) condemns the anti-community rioting and violence that has occurred in Belfast over the past few evenings. Such acts have been deliberately orchestrated, bears [...]

The Delaney Hall Proud Boys

Newark, N.J. — At least seven uniformed Proud Boys filed through crowds of protesters on May 30 to deliver bottled water and cookies to federal agents and other law enforcement [...]

Message from Rojava – 10.06.2026
Message from Rojava – 10.06.2026

listen here to the message: Dear friends, In Rojava, the self-administered region of Kurdistan in Syria, summer has arrived, bringing intense heat. Temperatures reach between 35 and 40 degrees Celsius, [...]

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Clean Up on Aisle Five: Essential Work and Poverty Wages at America’s Grocery Stores w/ Ann Larson
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