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Arundhati Roy on Cockroach Democracy: The student protesters who have swarmed Delhi are showing us a different future for India
Arundhati Roy on Cockroach Democracy: The student protesters who have swarmed Delhi are showing us a different future for India

Arundhati Roy at Equator: For the first time in years, it feels wonderful to be Indian. Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding in on the rain. [...]

What will more intelligence actually do for us?

Noah Smith at Noahpinion: Intelligence isn’t defined for machines the same way it is for humans — AI’s capabilities are spiky in different ways than ours — but it’s undeniable that the [...]

Book Talk: Daniyal Mueenuddin — This Is Where the Serpent Lives — with Varun Gauri

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This 19th-Century Diary Written by an Enslaved Maryland Man Is a Crucial Record of His Life and Family History—and the Only One of Its Kind Found in the United States
This 19th-Century Diary Written by an Enslaved Maryland Man Is a Crucial Record of His Life and Family History—and the Only One of Its Kind Found in the United States

Michelle Mehrtens at Smithsonian Magazine: In 1841, Adam Francis Plummer decided to keep a diary. Born into enslavement in 1819, he labored primarily at Riversdale House, a plantation owned by the Calvert [...]

“Cockroach Democracy”: Arundhati Roy on India’s Youth-Led Protest Movement, Modi’s Crumbling Support

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Bizarre CRISPR enzyme kills cancer cells by shredding their DNA
Bizarre CRISPR enzyme kills cancer cells by shredding their DNA

Heidi Ledford in Nature: Scientists have exploited a peculiar CRISPR enzyme so that it fights cancer by shredding the DNA in cancer cells, causing them to self-destruct. The enzyme can be programmed to [...]

Nolan’s Odyssey v. Homer’s Odyssey

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Gregg Araki Diagnoses Straight Malaise
Gregg Araki Diagnoses Straight Malaise

Nolan Kelly at Artforum: LIKE A PATRON SAINT or a public servant, Gregg Araki goes where he is needed. In the early 1990s, during the abandonment and demonization of gay men at the [...]

The Interstitium
The Interstitium

Laura Kolbe at the Paris Review: Like many doctors I know, I found myself being peppered with questions from friends and patients—some genuinely curious, others more finger-wagging—after The New York Times Magazine published [...]

Odysseus in Japan 奥德赛时期
Odysseus in Japan 奥德赛时期

by Leanne Ogasawara 1. In a recent installment of Sinica’s “Phrase of the Week,” Andrew Methven wrote about an expression that has gone viral on the Chinese internet: the “Odyssey Years”—奥德赛时期— [...]

Rewatering the West: Learning from Beavers and the Zuni
Rewatering the West: Learning from Beavers and the Zuni

by Mark Harvey All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. —Tony Morrison This summer may be a harsh preview of what’s [...]

Poem by Jim Culleny

Odder Still As odd as it is that the moon comes up behind the inelegant tree behind our house over the dark mountain —grey white and silver-dollar like, a night [...]

Rudolph Marcus (1923 – 2026) Chemist And Nobel Laureate

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Peace Means We’re Not Alone
Peace Means We’re Not Alone

Robert Koehler in Common Dreams: Breathe deep, sigh, embrace the next word: W-A-R. It doesn’t go away. I write about it far too often, and every time I do I feel torn [...]

‘The Odyssey’ Gives Us the Hero We Deserve
‘The Odyssey’ Gives Us the Hero We Deserve

BD McClay in The New York Times: Some people are going to tell you that the problem with Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is that it’s about modern people, not ancient people. [...]

Froth, Fury, and the Rise of the New Right

Mark Leonard in The Ideas Letter: The political scientist Peter Mair’s brilliant 2006 essay in New Left Review, “Ruling the Void” (posthumously turned into a book in 2013), provided a powerful [...]

The Gods Are Still Crazy

Carey Baraka in Equator: To talk about The Gods Must Be Crazy, we have to start with the VHS tapes. We didn’t have many of them when I was growing up [...]

Orbital Enclosure

Fulya Apaydin in Phenomenal World: In mid-June, SpaceX went public. The company’s initial public offering share price of $150 quickly crowned Elon Musk the world’s first dollar trillionaire. As the [...]

Plas Johnson (1931 – 2026) Pink Panther Saxophonist

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Freddy Cannon (1936 – 2026) Rock And Roller

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In search of the northern cassowary
In search of the northern cassowary

Join the search for the elusive cassowary, a big bird that plays an outsized role in maintaining its rainforest home- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

The taming of Black thought
The taming of Black thought

Black philosophers now feature on Western curricula, but the European tradition diminishes their radicalism into reassurance- by Takeshi MorisatoRead on Aeon [...]

Signal then storm
Signal then storm

Allan Basbaum has spent 50 years searching the nervous system for the places where pain begins – and where it can be stopped- by Stephani SutherlandRead on Aeon [...]

All the Queens houses
All the Queens houses

To the trained eye, the personalised homes of Queens, NYC, evoke everything from a Venetian streetscape to a Chinese temple- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

The savage bites back
The savage bites back

Rooted in Brazilian modernism, anthropophagy devours and transforms culture, subverting colonial fears of cannibalism- by Sofía CándanoRead on Aeon [...]

Can cells think?
Can cells think?

Inside the lab of a biologist who is seeking to understand intelligence by focusing on problem-solving, not neurons- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

The people’s atheist
The people’s atheist

Jean Meslier, a rural French priest, argued that religion is designed to produce subjects who will automatically obey- by Nidal TaibiRead on Aeon [...]

The Skinner revolution
The Skinner revolution

A 1979 doc examining the life and ideas of B F Skinner, with a focus on his radical, controversial behaviour experiments- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

Beyond Greece and Rome
Beyond Greece and Rome

A dramatic shift in perspective is producing a much bigger, broader and more exciting view of ‘the ancient world’- by Carlos NoreñaRead on Aeon [...]

Transit of wonder
Transit of wonder

Every 122 years, Venus crosses the Sun as a black and fleeting teardrop, kindling the awe of all those who dare to know- by Ananya PalivelaRead on Aeon [...]

What remains
What remains

In an ingenious restoration project, the humble oyster shell is transformed into a powerful tool to halt coastal erosion- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

Loitering towards war
Loitering towards war

While Vienna’s coffeehouses bred modernism, in Belgrade’s kafanas grew conspiracy and rage. Their clash consumed Europe- by Anton CebaloRead on Aeon [...]

The diffusion pilot
The diffusion pilot

What does it mean to make art in the age of inexhaustible AIs? An animator ponders his purpose and reclaims some control- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

The looting of science fiction
The looting of science fiction

Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future- by Ali Rıza TaşkaleRead on Aeon [...]

Patricia Evangelista on journalism
Patricia Evangelista on journalism

The ‘worst’ and ‘best possible’ job at once: what it’s like to dedicate your life to documenting crimes against humanity- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

Unmothered
Unmothered

We are each a living story, written with those who raised us. But when my most loving co-author ghosted me, my story fractured- by David RobsonRead on Aeon [...]

Lore of the rings
Lore of the rings

Trees contain an archive – tales of planetary shifts, cosmic events, historical pivots – that we’re only just unlocking- by Valerie TrouetRead on Aeon [...]

Africa’s cultural landmarks: rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia
Africa’s cultural landmarks: rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia

Most buildings rise from the bottom up, stone by stone. Not so these churches: carved from a single rock, top-to-bottom- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

How to offset your brain
How to offset your brain

From confirmation bias to loss aversion, everyone suffers from cognitive biases. Skilfully targeted mindfulness can help- by Stephanie DoraisRead on Aeon [...]

Sangre violenta / sangre violeta
Sangre violenta / sangre violeta

Confronted with the horrifying reality of gendered violence, radically different people unite in resistance and protest- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon [...]

ANews Podcast 476 – 7.24.26

ANews Podcast 476 – 7.24.26 thecollective Sun, 07/26/2026 - 08:55 [...]

TotW: Conversations We Want to be Having #3: informants

TotW: Conversations We Want to be Having #3: informants thecollective Mon, 07/20/2026 - 06:54 [...]

Greece: Hands off our Comrades- Support for persecuted Comrades of the Marfin Case

Greece: Hands off our Comrades- Support for persecuted Comrades of the Marfin Case anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/27/2026 - 07:51 [...]

Seattle Anarchist Bookfair

Seattle Anarchist Bookfair thecollective Mon, 07/27/2026 - 03:03 [...]

Montreal Anarchist Tech Convergence Call for Proposals

Montreal Anarchist Tech Convergence Call for Proposals thecollective Sat, 07/25/2026 - 15:35 [...]

Call for the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners August 23 -30, 2026

Call for the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners August 23 -30, 2026 thecollective Sat, 07/25/2026 - 15:32 [...]

30 Years Since the Assassination of Anarchist Revolutionary Christoforos Marinos

30 Years Since the Assassination of Anarchist Revolutionary Christoforos Marinos thecollective Sat, 07/25/2026 - 15:30 [...]

B(A)D News: Episode 104 (07/2027)

B(A)D News: Episode 104 (07/2027) thecollective Sat, 07/25/2026 - 15:21 [...]

Oak on Stop Cop City and Community-Based Art

Oak on Stop Cop City and Community-Based Art thecollective Sat, 07/25/2026 - 15:02 [...]

NYC Anarchist Book Fair: Open Call For Applications

NYC Anarchist Book Fair: Open Call For Applications thecollective Sat, 07/25/2026 - 14:43 [...]

Collier Schorr’s Balletic Homage to Chantal Akerman
Collier Schorr’s Balletic Homage to Chantal Akerman

Having spent six years creating a ballet adaptation of Chantal Akerman’s Je Tu Il Elle, the American artist talks to filmmaker Matt Wolf to discuss its extraordinary realisation and first [...]

Alisha Boe on The Bucaneers, Nostalgia and Black Opium
Alisha Boe on The Bucaneers, Nostalgia and Black Opium

With season three of The Buccaneers on the horizon, YSL Beauty ambassador, Boe, reminisces about being a child actor and her first experiences of the ultimate “party girl” perfume [...]

Inside Palomo’s Tom of Finland Collaboration
Inside Palomo’s Tom of Finland Collaboration

Alejandro Palomo celebrates the past and present of queer encounters through a new collaboration photographed by Kees de Klein and Cain Isan Wittenhaus [...]

Rachel Aviv on the Complex Bonds Between Mothers and Daughters
Rachel Aviv on the Complex Bonds Between Mothers and Daughters

In her new essay collection You Won’t Get Free of It, Rachel Aviv reworks her award-winning journalism for The New Yorker to focus on the familial relationship that “seems to [...]

AnOther Loves: A Day to Night Bag
AnOther Loves: A Day to Night Bag

A Valentino bag fit for day to evening – lunch at Le Cirque and nocturnal prowling in the motion picture of the Alessandro Michele woman’s life [...]

Adam Peter Johnson’s Portrait of Apolline Rocco-Fohrer
Adam Peter Johnson’s Portrait of Apolline Rocco-Fohrer

The Paris-based photographer’s debut photo book distils friendship and boredom across suburban Australia [...]

Imran Perretta: The Five Youth Culture Classics That Shaped Me
Imran Perretta: The Five Youth Culture Classics That Shaped Me

Imran Perretta on the British coming-of-age films that informed his beguiling feature debut, Ish [...]

AnOther Photo Dump: Jo Fetto’s Summer
AnOther Photo Dump: Jo Fetto’s Summer

In the first edition of AnOther Photo Dump, London-based photographer Jo Fetto shares new and archival images from summers spent in Naples, the city where he was born [...]

When Willem Dafoe Turned a Photo Shoot for AnOther Magazine on Its Head
When Willem Dafoe Turned a Photo Shoot for AnOther Magazine on Its Head

On Willem Dafoe’s birthday, we revisit our 2003 story for which he requested to wear the crew’s clothes instead, adopting each of their wardrobes as a means for performance [...]

A Guide to the Spectral Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
A Guide to the Spectral Films of Andrei Tarkovsky

As Nostalghia and The Sacrifice return to cinemas in new 4K restorations, AnOther revisits five films that define Andrei Tarkovsky’s oeuvre [...]

Heat and Desire in the Dirty Waters of Paris’ Canal Saint-Martin
Heat and Desire in the Dirty Waters of Paris’ Canal Saint-Martin

As the Paris heatwave turned the murky waters of Canal Saint-Martin into a communal escape and impromptu cruising ground, Pedro Vasconcelos joins photographer José Cuevas to document the strange freedom [...]

Fara Homidi, the Make-up Artist Elevating the Everyday
Fara Homidi, the Make-up Artist Elevating the Everyday

Fara Homidi takes inspiration from a childhood spent at her mum’s beauty salon, archival magazines and a “sexy, lived-in” aesthetic [...]

John Waters: “Tracy Turnblad Would Be a Trans Activist Now”
John Waters: “Tracy Turnblad Would Be a Trans Activist Now”

As Hairspray and Desperate Living get the 4K treatment from Criterion, the cult legend behind them recalls working with Liz Renay, likens Desperate Living’s Queen Carlotta to Donald Trump and [...]

AnOther Loves: An Odyssey in Diamond
AnOther Loves: An Odyssey in Diamond

Inspired by the Ancient Greek god of the sun and infused with a mid-century modern notion of Sputnik-y atoms and electron, Tiffany’s Apollo collection is old meets new [...]

A Guide to Greek Myths in Cinema
A Guide to Greek Myths in Cinema

As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey sails into cinemas, we uncover the films that find fresh and surprising ways to play with Greek mythology [...]

5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech
5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech

Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find. [...]

Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many
Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many

Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers. [...]

Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a "dead end" for rapid reuse
Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a "dead end" for rapid reuse

NASA has not made substantial investments in thermal protection research for decades. [...]

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications. [...]

Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone
Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone

The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal. [...]

Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price

Framework's latest modular laptop trades one set of problems for another. [...]

What public health professionals can learn from anti-vaccine storytelling
What public health professionals can learn from anti-vaccine storytelling

Sometimes, compelling stories beat medical evidence. [...]

Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template

Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says. [...]

First teaser for Apple TV's Neuromancer debuts at SDCC
First teaser for Apple TV's Neuromancer debuts at SDCC

Plus Mike Flanagan's Carrie teaser, trailers for Dark Matter S2 and Matchbox the Movie, and Marvel news. [...]

SDCC teaser gives us our first good look at Blade Runner 2099
SDCC teaser gives us our first good look at Blade Runner 2099

Also: Forging the One Ring in Rings of Power S3 teaser; new Lanterns trailer; Spaceballs: The New One panel. [...]

SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight
SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight

SpaceX will likely attempt to catch Starship back at the launch pad on its next flight. [...]

With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience
With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience

Museums are embracing data-driven curation and a shifting technology landscape. [...]

Big Tech accused of stonewalling European social media researchers
Big Tech accused of stonewalling European social media researchers

Researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta aren't providing data they're legally required to. [...]

Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain
Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain

"Any potential damage will be assessed when it is safe to do so." [...]

Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states' lawsuit moves toward trial
Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states' lawsuit moves toward trial

“Halting this merger while our case proceeds is a critical victory," NY AG said. [...]

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..." [...]

Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough. [...]

Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent
Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent

Roku blames RAM shortage after CEO called it "great" for business in May. [...]

RFK Jr.'s handpicked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses
RFK Jr.'s handpicked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses

There's no human safety or efficacy data, but that no longer seems to matter. [...]

Judge rebuffs Trump admin demand for phone records from NYT reporters
Judge rebuffs Trump admin demand for phone records from NYT reporters

"We can quash the subpoenas, or you could withdraw the subpoenas,” judge told US. [...]

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. [...]

Rust and Boll

Anthropic should learn from those cotton-picking socialists. [...]

All Work and No Play

Welcome to Issue 15. [...]

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. [...]

The Doomers Are All Right

What is it like to live in a world you believe is about to end? [...]

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? [...]

In Praise of Observational Evidence

Everyone knows RCTs are the gold standard of evidence. ….Right? [...]

How Long Until AI Doesn’t Need Humans?

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

Engineering Peace

The development community treats war as inevitable. We’re learning how to pay to prevent it. [...]

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. [...]

EFF at BSides Las Vegas
EFF at BSides Las Vegas

August 3, 2026 - 9:00am PDT to August 5, 2026 - 2:00pm PDTTuscany Suites Hotel & Casino | Las Vegas, NVOnce again, EFF is excited to be back at the [...]

Hundreds of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs Could Soon Be Launched Across the Country
Hundreds of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs Could Soon Be Launched Across the Country

Police departments across the country are lining up to launch drone-as-first-responder (DFR) programs, and hundreds have cleared a necessary hurdle toward making deployment a reality, expanding aerial surveillance and data [...]

The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required
The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required

Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post. The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which EFF filed an [...]

New EU Court of Justice Ruling on Platform Liability Could Cause Collateral Damage to Freedom of Expression
New EU Court of Justice Ruling on Platform Liability Could Cause Collateral Damage to Freedom of Expression

Intermediary liability laws around the world recognize that social media platforms, search engines, and other online service providers have become an integral part of our lives: they shape how we access information, communicate with others and participate in public debate, and foster innovation [...]

Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP Tool
Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP Tool

Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your [...]

An Explosion of Surveillance Towers is Coming to U.S. Borders, Costing Over $1 Billion
An Explosion of Surveillance Towers is Coming to U.S. Borders, Costing Over $1 Billion

A new report from the Government Accounting Office reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders, from the [...]

“Stealth Crawlers” Are Not a Threat to the Open Web. Bills Targeting Them Would Be.
“Stealth Crawlers” Are Not a Threat to the Open Web. Bills Targeting Them Would Be.

There’s a new boogeyman in the battles over AI: so-called “stealth crawlers.” We’ll admit it—the term “stealth crawlers” sounds quite nefarious. In reality, they’re anything but. “Stealth crawlers” are simply [...]

Tech Trivia at DEF CON 34
Tech Trivia at DEF CON 34

August 8, 2026 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm PDTAugust 8, 2026 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm PDTLas Vegas Convention Center | Las Vegas, NV EFF's privacy and security experts have crafted a [...]

Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices
Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices

Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunshot detection [...]

Your Vision. Your Legacy. Your Future.
Your Vision. Your Legacy. Your Future.

This month, we celebrate 36 years of EFF and a mission that is bigger than any one of us. Thanks to EFF, communities around the world are demanding that technology [...]

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

The student protesters who have swarmed Delhi are showing us a different future for India [...]

The Gods Are Still Crazy

Separating truth from fiction in the most successful African movie of all time [...]

Football Belongs to Us

Trump and Infantino have tried their best to spoil the World Cup, but the joy of the game remains undefeated [...]

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity

Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues. [...]

Standing on the Rubble

On Gaza, ruins and mourning [...]

The King of Fruits

My life as a durian influencer [...]

We All Get Desperate Sometimes

An excerpt from the rediscovered cult classic Fixer Chao [...]

In Evil Hour

A leading Colombian climate activist on the right-wing resurgence and the fate of Gustavo Petro’s green reforms [...]

The Suitcase of Language

How Russia’s new generation of political exiles is redefining what it means to lose a homeland [...]

Fire in Soweto

Fifty years later, South Africans cannot put Sam Nzima’s photograph behind them [...]

Picturing the Enemy

The graphic novelist discusses his research into rising political violence – in India and around the world [...]

¡No es Posible!

For Mexican fans, disillusionment begins at home [...]

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, the German novelist 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 [...]

Statement regarding GNU Savannah security reports
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 [...]

Legal Corner: How Apple’s attack on interoperability failed
Legal Corner: How Apple’s attack on interoperability failed

8 July 2026 marks a significant milestone in the fight for interoperability and software freedom, for both developers and users: the Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed Apple’s [...]

SFP#53: FSFE is turning 25! Come and celebrate with us!

Times goes by… Did you know the FSFE was founded in 2001, 25 years ago? Of course, we have planned something for our silver anniversary! We are dedicating a full [...]

Apple held accountable under the DMA - A victory for developers and computer users!
Apple held accountable under the DMA - A victory for developers and computer users!

The Court of Justice of the European Union has rejected Apple's challenge to the interoperability obligations under the Digital Markets Act. The Court also confirmed the App Store as a [...]

YH4F 2026 wraps up, Android interoperability, and the Teufel Mynd speaker to test
YH4F 2026 wraps up, Android interoperability, and the Teufel Mynd speaker to test

The past few weeks have been busy for YH4F 2026 participants: the programming period wrapped up on 30 June with project submissions for evaluation. We also submitted our position on [...]

Open Hardware and Free Software: Teufel Mynd, a case study
Open Hardware and Free Software: Teufel Mynd, a case study

The FSFE's volunteer and open hardware passionate, Nicole Faeber read about the Teufel Mynd speaker announced as an "Open Source Project", so she decided to put it to the test. [...]

DMA: Protecting Device Neutrality in Android Devices
DMA: Protecting Device Neutrality in Android Devices

The FSFE has submitted its position to the European Commission’s Android interoperability consultation under the Digital Markets Act, calling for, among others, the right to fully uninstall AI-based features from [...]

SFP#52: Policy and EU: Insights from the T-DOSE conference and the Dutch community

In our 52nd episode, we turn our attention to the European stages, this time going to the Netherlands. There, on 6 and 7 June, Dutch volunteers and Free Software enthusiasts [...]

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 [...]

Proposed DHS Work Authorization Rule Threatens Immigrant Domestic Violence Survivors

Click to expand Image In Homestead, Florida, women and their children listen to an explanation of their legal rights and strategies for preparing their families if a parent is detained [...]

Vietnam Should Release Ailing Political Prisoners

Click to expand Image Can Thi Theu in the dock during her appeal at the Hanoi People's Court, Vietnam, on November 30, 2016. © 2016 Vietnam News Agency/AFP via Getty [...]

DR Congo: Oil Company Operations Pose Grave Pollution Threat

Click to expand Image Oil well at Perenco’s concession in Democratic Republic of Congo. © 2026 Human Rights Watch Pollution linked to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s only oil producer [...]

No Justice 20 Years Since Sri Lanka’s Muttur Massacre

Click to expand Image The shuttered former office compound of Action Contre la Faim (ACF) in Muttur, Sri Lanka, October 22, 2015.  © 2015 James Ross/Human Rights Watch I was [...]

End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists in Yemen

Click to expand Image Mohammed Aydah's car in the yard of a police station, where it had been moved to after an explosive device planted in the car detonated and [...]

West Bank: Surge in Settler Violence Threatens Mass Atrocities

Click to expand Image Israeli forces fire tear gas at Palestinians and journalists covering military operations and settler activity in the nearby village of Tal, in the West Bank, July [...]

US, Iran Threaten Attacks on Civilian Infrastructure

Click to expand Image A woman looks out from her destroyed apartment in the Shahrak-e Gharb neighborhood of Tehran, Iran, March 21, 2026. © 2026 Majid Saeedi/Getty Images (Washington, DC) [...]

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Removed

Click to expand Image Seventeenth session of the International Criminal Court's Assembly of States Parties in The Hague, Netherlands, December 2018. © 2018 Syd Boyd/Coalition for the International Criminal Court [...]

When You Watch the Tour de France, Think Sudan War

Click to expand Image UAE Team Emirates - XRG Pro Cycling team during the team presentation of the 109th Giro d'Italia in Burgas, Bulgaria, on May 6, 2026.  © 2026 [...]

Iranians Face Double Peril of Gallows and Bombs

Click to expand Image Two members of Iran’s security forces stand guard in downtown Tehran, Iran, on April 8, 2026. © 2026 Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images Iran’s authorities executed [...]

Nepal: Government Actions Threaten Judicial Independence

Click to expand Image Nepali lawyers stage a protest against the Supreme Court administration's refusal to register writ petitions and applications in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 19, 2026. © 2026 [...]

UK: Manchester Mayoral Candidates Should Condemn UAE Abuses

Click to expand Image From left to right: Bev Craig, Geraldine Coggins, Phil Eckersley, and Richard Kilpatrick, in Manchester, UK, July 8, 2026. © 2026 Gary Roberts/Sopa Images via Reuters [...]

Philippines: Rights Advocates in Mining Areas Face Prosecution

Click to expand Image Edgardo Balgos (in blue shirt) and Fidel Santos (in cream shirt) in discussions with the residents of Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. © Photo courtesy of Ellice [...]

China’s Police Harass Animal Protection Supporters

Click to expand Image A pedestrian walks a dog in Chongqing, China, on December 17, 2024. © 2024 Cheng Xin/Getty Images Two incidents of videoed cruelty of stray animals in [...]

Uganda’s Military Forcibly Disappears Opposition Politician

It has been 13 days since armed soldiers seized Muwanga Kivumbi, a deputy president for the National Unity Platform, Uganda’s main opposition party. He has not been heard from since [...]

India: Excessive Force Used Against Student Protesters

Click to expand Image Police officers use batons to disperse protestors during a march by the Cockroach Janta Party in New Delhi, India, July 20, 2026. © Photo by Kabir [...]

US Officials Sound Alarm on Haiti While Preparing to Deport Haitians There

Click to expand Image Members of the Haitian community rally in support for the extension of TPS and against deportation in Miami, Florida April 26, 2026. © 2026 Carl Juste/Miami [...]

Niger: 3 Years of Military Rule Deepens Human Rights Crisis

Click to expand Image Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani of Niger attends the Alliance of Sahel States second summit on security and development, in Bamako, Mali, December 23, 2025. © 2025 Mali [...]

UAE: International Cycling’s Top Team Risks ‘Sportswashing’

Click to expand Image Cyclists during stage 14 of the 2026 Tour de France, July 18, 2026. © 2026 Gregory Van Gansen/Belga/Sipa USA via AP Photo (Beirut) – The United Arab [...]

Nigeria: Boko Haram Trials Ineffective, Flawed

Click to expand Image Members of the Nigerian police force are seen outside the Federal High Court, in Abuja, Nigeria, on October 21, 2021. © 2021 Kola Sulaimon / AFP [...]

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Call for the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners August 23 -30, 2026

You can find the call in different languages here.If your language is missing, feel free to contribute with your translation: tillallarefree@riseup.net Marius Mason, an environmental and animal rights activist, anarchist, [...]

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 [...]

The 2026 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition Topic: ‘A New Axial Age?’
The 2026 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition Topic: ‘A New Axial Age?’

The post The 2026 Berggruen Prize Essay Competition Topic: ‘A New Axial Age?’ appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

The Real Problem Underlying India-China Tensions
The Real Problem Underlying India-China Tensions

The post The Real Problem Underlying India-China Tensions appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

What Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade
What Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade

The post What Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

The Heated Debate In Europe Over Air Conditioning
The Heated Debate In Europe Over Air Conditioning

The post The Heated Debate In Europe Over Air Conditioning appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

How AI Is Rewriting Human Nature
How AI Is Rewriting Human Nature

The post How AI Is Rewriting Human Nature appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

Why We Demand Perfect Machines Yet Tolerate Human Carnage
Why We Demand Perfect Machines Yet Tolerate Human Carnage

The post Why We Demand Perfect Machines Yet Tolerate Human Carnage appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

China’s Open AI Models Are Advancing Its Global Soft Power
China’s Open AI Models Are Advancing Its Global Soft Power

The post China’s Open AI Models Are Advancing Its Global Soft Power appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

AI’s Greatest Gift To Humanity
AI’s Greatest Gift To Humanity

The post AI’s Greatest Gift To Humanity appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

Pakistan’s Rise To A Middle Power
Pakistan’s Rise To A Middle Power

The post Pakistan’s Rise To A Middle Power appeared first on NOEMA. [...]

When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration
When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration

The post When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration 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: How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump) (27 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump) (27 Jul 2026)

Today's links How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump): Grant me the courage to change the things I can. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Chilling [...]

Pluralistic: Apple's robo-repo (25 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: Apple's robo-repo (25 Jul 2026)

Today's links Apple's robo-repo: Privatizing the risk premium, socializing its costs. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Printed batteries; Monopoly credit cards; Mapping airport power outlets; EMI [...]

Pluralistic: AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026)

Today's links AI solipsists and AI cynics: You don't have to believe that AI "works" to believe that it's a good investment. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object [...]

Pluralistic: California's privacy obstacle course (23 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: California's privacy obstacle course (23 Jul 2026)

Today's links California's privacy obstacle course: Malice or incompetence (why not both?). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Continuous partial attention, TSA is the worst; Trump's FCC [...]

Pluralistic: Trump's America can't even win a rigged game (22 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: Trump's America can't even win a rigged game (22 Jul 2026)

Today's links Trump's America can't even win a rigged game: America has created a post-American world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Fagin"; Scott McCloud on comics' [...]

Pluralistic: Dealing with dickovers (21 Jul 2026) dickovers
Pluralistic: Dealing with dickovers (21 Jul 2026) dickovers

Today's links Dealing with dickovers: The web is an open platform, and that matters. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Broadcast's bad week; Congress v wifi; EFF [...]

Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026)

Today's links Deranged billionaires and their syndromes: The Mad Kings do love a syllogism. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: PoGo v binding arbitration; Trump beat some [...]

Pluralistic: Gerontocracy's failure mode (14 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: Gerontocracy's failure mode (14 Jul 2026)

Today's links Gerontocracy's failure mode: Where are the designated survivors? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MSFT v MP3; UK industry v schoolkids; Gary Larson v comics [...]

Pluralistic: Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers? (13 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers? (13 Jul 2026)

Today's links Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers? Why sell picks and shovels if you've already struck gold? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: [...]

Pluralistic: Workplace "flexibility" isn't (11 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: Workplace "flexibility" isn't (11 Jul 2026)

Today's links Workplace "flexibility" isn't: What the gig economy calls flexibility is just risk-shifting. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Alanya to Alanya"; ToS are the internet's [...]

Pluralistic: "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy (10 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy (10 Jul 2026)

Today's links "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy: When we were robots in Egypt… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Awkward questions for the entertainment [...]

Pluralistic: Post-political (09 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: Post-political (09 Jul 2026)

Today's links Post-political: What a "leftist" is. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MSFT x OSCON; Parental spyware; "Resurrection Man"; Brexit do-over petition; Workplace email spying; Record [...]

Pluralistic: How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech (07 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech (07 Jul 2026)

Today's links How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech: Their common enemies are Trump and his tech giants. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: [...]

Pluralistic: CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code (03 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code (03 Jul 2026)

Today's links CARDiac, syntax coloring, view source and vibe code: With great abstraction comes great power comes great responsibility comes great loss of fidelity. Hey look at this: Delights to [...]

Pluralistic: The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" (02 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work" (02 Jul 2026)

Today's links The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work": Sometimes, "I got it working" is fine, but sometimes it isn't. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: [...]

Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026)
Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026)

Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Grampa's backyard Disneyland; Elizabeth Warren on monopolies; Spotify v Apple (antitrust edn); Exxon [...]

Pluralistic: Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect" (30 Jun 2026)
Pluralistic: Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect" (30 Jun 2026)

Today's links Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect": A mystical tour-de-force that makes you feel like your mundane life until this point has all been a boring dream. Hey look at this: [...]

Pluralistic: Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search (29 Jun 2026)
Pluralistic: Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search (29 Jun 2026)

Today's links Gemini is better than search because Google enshittified search: We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: [...]

Pluralistic: Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026)
Pluralistic: Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026)

Today's links Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers: Under no circumstances should you rush out and read the book that prompted Mark Zuckerberg to demand $111m and eternal auctorial silence. [...]

Pluralistic: Jailbreaking isn't theft (25 Jun 2026)
Pluralistic: Jailbreaking isn't theft (25 Jun 2026)

Today's links Jailbreaking isn't theft: It wasn't progress when they did it, it's not piracy when we do it back to them. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object [...]

Humanless Resources? Uncovering AI recruitment software
When algorithms go to war
PI’s submission to the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries
Collateral Damage: Claude Mythos and the Privacy Risks of AI
Key highlights of our 2026 results by season
World Food Programme expand Palantir partnership
Time to address the human rights implications of AI in the military domain
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
A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmosphere
A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmosphere

An organelle discovered inside a microbe inside a cow’s gut helps explain how livestock burps contribute to warming our planet. The post A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World [...]

How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding?
How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding?

One of the most contested issues in astrophysics is our understanding of the Universe’s expansion. Adam Riess discusses why there is disagreement and what might resolve it. The post How [...]

Fields and Abacus Medals 2026
Fields and Abacus Medals 2026

Every four years, the math world’s preeminent awards are given to the finest minds of a generation. The young winners — all under 40 on the first day of the [...]

A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path
A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path

Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms. The post A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds [...]

Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle
Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal. The post Living Fully in [...]

Can You Escape the Device Identifiers?
Can You Escape the Device Identifiers?

Every platform remembers you in its own language. The post Can You Escape the Device Identifiers? appeared first on Reclaim The Net: Free Speech, Privacy, Digital Rights. [...]

GrapheneOS Wipe at Airport Leads to Federal Charge in Atlanta
GrapheneOS Wipe at Airport Leads to Federal Charge in Atlanta

Border search law, Fifth Amendment claims, and Cop City politics collide in an Atlanta federal court case. The post GrapheneOS Wipe at Airport Leads to Federal Charge in Atlanta appeared [...]

Canada’s New “Hate” Law Is Already at People’s Doors
Canada’s New “Hate” Law Is Already at People’s Doors

Royal assent came in June, the law landed in July, and by the end of the month somebody was standing on a porch asking about a post from three years [...]

EU Court Rules VPN Providers Not Liable When Users Bypass Geoblocks
EU Court Rules VPN Providers Not Liable When Users Bypass Geoblocks

A tool is a tool, and there is no appeal. The post EU Court Rules VPN Providers Not Liable When Users Bypass Geoblocks appeared first on Reclaim The Net: Free [...]

Blizzard Begins Asking UK Players for ID Before They Can Chat
Blizzard Begins Asking UK Players for ID Before They Can Chat

The Online Safety Act has arrived in Azeroth, and it has questions about your ID. The post Blizzard Begins Asking UK Players for ID Before They Can Chat appeared first [...]

Facebook Verified: Meta Now Wants a Video Selfie of Your Face
Facebook Verified: Meta Now Wants a Video Selfie of Your Face

Meta's Facebook Verified badge requires a video selfie, part of a fast growing push to collect biometric data. The post Facebook Verified: Meta Now Wants a Video Selfie of Your [...]

EU DSA Ruling on TikTok Points to ID Checks
EU DSA Ruling on TikTok Points to ID Checks

The Commission wants TikTok to know which users are children, which means TikTok has to know exactly who everybody else is too. The post EU DSA Ruling on TikTok Points [...]

Google’s New Recovery Option Stores a Clip of Your Face
Google’s New Recovery Option Stores a Clip of Your Face

Google's selfie sign-in reflects the growing normalization of face scanning across big tech, from phones to airports. The post Google’s New Recovery Option Stores a Clip of Your Face appeared [...]

India Orders GitHub to Block BitChat
India Orders GitHub to Block BitChat

The government shut off the internet at Jantar Mantar, the students found an app that didn't need it, and then the government came for the app. The post India Orders [...]

India Cuts Mobile Internet in Delhi Amid Cockroach Protests
India Cuts Mobile Internet in Delhi Amid Cockroach Protests

There is a particular kind of authority that responds to being questioned by making questions harder to send. The post India Cuts Mobile Internet in Delhi Amid Cockroach Protests appeared [...]

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 25)
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 25)

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 July 25) [...]

Scientists Are Designing CRISPR Gene Editors With AI
Scientists Are Designing CRISPR Gene Editors With AI

To make CRISPR better at its job, researchers are turning to algorithms like DeepMind's AlphaFold. The post Scientists Are Designing CRISPR Gene Editors With AI appeared first on SingularityHub. [...]

OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face
OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face

The incident is a first and signals a seismic shift in cybersecurity. The post OpenAI Agent Breaks Free and Hacks Hugging Face appeared first on SingularityHub. [...]

Scientists Inch Closer to Creating Human Sperm in the Lab
Scientists Inch Closer to Creating Human Sperm in the Lab

Researchers could use lab-grown sperm to develop infertility treatments or, more controversially, make babies. The post Scientists Inch Closer to Creating Human Sperm in the Lab appeared first on SingularityHub. [...]

Spaceflight Nears Its Steamship Era
Spaceflight Nears Its Steamship Era

Cambridge University researchers say launch costs fell from $87,000 to $3,868 per kilogram between 1960 and 2025—or roughly 96%—and could hit $273 by 2040. The post Spaceflight Nears Its Steamship [...]

This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 18)
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 18)

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 July 18) [...]

Anthropic Says Chatbots Have What May Be a Key Feature of Consciousness. Are They Right?
Anthropic Says Chatbots Have What May Be a Key Feature of Consciousness. Are They Right?

The AI company says a new finding about how Claude works echoes an influential theory of consciousness. That doesn't prove the AI is itself conscious. The post Anthropic Says Chatbots [...]

Is AI Making Us Dumber?
Is AI Making Us Dumber?

Research suggests offloading mental work to AI is like debt: an immediate payoff with long-term consequences. But collaborating with the technology may boost our work without eroding skills. The post [...]

Scientists Find a Surprising New Way Stress Cascades From Brain to Body
Scientists Find a Surprising New Way Stress Cascades From Brain to Body

A newly discovered brain-gut-bone marrow highway in mice could inspire strategies to protect immunity from chronic stress. The post Scientists Find a Surprising New Way Stress Cascades From Brain to [...]

In a First, a Humanoid Robot Performed Live Surgery Under a Surgeon’s Control
In a First, a Humanoid Robot Performed Live Surgery Under a Surgeon’s Control

The robot removed a pig's gallbladder with standard surgical tools in an ordinary operating room. The post In a First, a Humanoid Robot Performed Live Surgery Under a Surgeon’s Control [...]

China Begins Mass Production of Homegrown DUV Chip Tools
China Begins Mass Production of Homegrown DUV Chip Tools

According to The Information (paywalled), a state-backed Shanghai company has begun mass-producing China's first homegrown immersion DUV lithography machines, with about five units expected this year for SMIC, Hua Hong, [...]

ChatGPT Starts Blocking Direct Requests To Copy an Author's Style
ChatGPT Starts Blocking Direct Requests To Copy an Author's Style

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: OpenAI's ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors. When asked to do [...]

Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts
Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts

MacRumors interviewed AI critic Ed Zitron, author of the Where's Your Ed At newsletter and host of the Better Offline podcast, about what could happen to Apple if the costly [...]

Big Tech Accused of Stonewalling European Social Media Researchers
Big Tech Accused of Stonewalling European Social Media Researchers

European misinformation researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta are obstructing access to platform data required under the EU's Digital Services Act through rejections, restrictive quotas, costly APIs, and burdensome security [...]

Nvidia In Talks With OpenAI To Guarantee $250 Billion Financing For Data Center
Nvidia In Talks With OpenAI To Guarantee $250 Billion Financing For Data Center

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, [...]

'KVM Chainsaw' Expected to Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing with 'God Data Structure'
'KVM Chainsaw' Expected to Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing with 'God Data Structure'

An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what's dubbed the "KVM Chainsaw" as a major [...]

A New Middle Class of Content Creators Is Quietly Quitting the 9-to-5
A New Middle Class of Content Creators Is Quietly Quitting the 9-to-5

"The rise of TikTok, Instagram Reels and Amazon storefronts has created a new kind of white-collar exit strategy," reports Bloomberg. Workers ditch office jobs not to become celebrities, necessarily, "but [...]

2.1 Million People View Leaked 'Odyssey' Bootleg on X
2.1 Million People View Leaked 'Odyssey' Bootleg on X

Variety reports: "The Odyssey" leaks have begun, as a high-quality bootleg of the film reached millions of people on X thanks to a viral tweet on July 25. At 2:25 [...]

'Inside the Dystopian World of Germany's Free Speech Crackdown'
'Inside the Dystopian World of Germany's Free Speech Crackdown'

Thousands of Germans have been threatened with fines or prison sentences for social media posts, reports The Telegraph, calling the country's political speech laws "unusually stringent for an EU member [...]

NASA Replaces ULA's Vulcan Centaur With SpaceX Falcon Heavy For Solar Storm Research
NASA Replaces ULA's Vulcan Centaur With SpaceX Falcon Heavy For Solar Storm Research

There's been a change to NASA's launch of six satellites for solar storms research. Space.com reports that those satellites "were originally slated to lift off on a United Launch Alliance [...]

Apple's Smart Glasses Delayed, As Engineers Consider Privacy Concerns
Apple's Smart Glasses Delayed, As Engineers Consider Privacy Concerns

Digital Trends reports: Apple could unveil its first smart glasses at WWDC in June 2027, followed by a consumer release toward the end of the year, according to Bloomberg... Part [...]

Google's Anti-search-scraping Lawsuit Dismissed
Google's Anti-search-scraping Lawsuit Dismissed

A U.S. district court "has dismissed Google's case against SerpApi over that company's scraping of search results to train AI models," reports Computerworld. Google had claimed that it was protecting [...]

Wildfires, Evacuations, and Smoke Hit Europe and North America
Wildfires, Evacuations, and Smoke Hit Europe and North America

270,000 people have been displaced by wildfires in France and Spain, reports the Guardian. A wildfire even forced evacuations in Scotland. And wildfires "have now scorched four million acres of [...]

AI-Equipped Garbage Trucks Could Soon Start Spying On People in the US
AI-Equipped Garbage Trucks Could Soon Start Spying On People in the US

America's garbage trucks can do more than just collect trash, reports Newsweek. They may also help identify code violations using AI. Officials in Cape Coral, Florida, recently considered equipping sanitation [...]

Is Huawei Building Its Own DRAM Fab?
Is Huawei Building Its Own DRAM Fab?

From the site tech-news site XDA Developers: The consumer tech economy needs more DRAM manufacturers, and it needs them more urgently than perhaps at any point in its history. Anyone [...]

Rai Ling - Anarchism and Cryptocurrency
Rai Ling - Anarchism and Cryptocurrency

Author: Rai LingTitle: Anarchism and CryptocurrencyDate: 10/20/2022Source: www.mutualismcoop.com Introduction Cryptocurrency, a digital currency in which transactions are verified and recorded by a decentralized system using cryptography, rather than by a [...]

Recurring Paradox - Against Synthesis
Recurring Paradox - Against Synthesis

Author: Recurring ParadoxTitle: Against SynthesisSubtitle: Stirner's Re-Centralization of the Individual & the Birth of a Dialectic without TranscendenceDate: October 14, 2025Source: https://anekab.substack.com/p/against-synthesis This essay tries to reconsider the dialectical legacy [...]

A New World In Our Hearts - What is Mutual Aid?
A New World In Our Hearts - What is Mutual Aid?

Author: A New World In Our HeartsTitle: What is Mutual Aid?Subtitle: #SandyAidDate: 2012Notes: Originally published by inourheartsnyc.org Outdated contact information has been redacted.Source: Zine Occupy Sandy is an example of [...]

Hamish Kallin - Henri Lefebvre and the spatial revolution that never ends
Hamish Kallin - Henri Lefebvre and the spatial revolution that never ends

Author: Hamish KallinTitle: Henri Lefebvre and the spatial revolution that never endsSubtitle: Towards the reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches in geography?Date: 2024Source: Abstract It is widely accepted that Henri [...]

Punch Up * Kick Down Distro - Abolish Punishment
Punch Up * Kick Down Distro - Abolish Punishment

Author: Punch Up * Kick Down DistroTitle: Abolish PunishmentSubtitle: Rejecting Carceral Ideology & Embracing Radical CompassionNotes: Audiobook version of this and other works at PunchUpKickDown.bandcamp.com Punishment Human beings are meaning-seeking [...]

ziq - How Red Anarchists Project Ableism Onto Greens
ziq - How Red Anarchists Project Ableism Onto Greens

Author: ziqTitle: How Red Anarchists Project Ableism Onto GreensDate: July 21, 2026Source: https://raddle.me/wiki/red_projection Green anarchy, or anti-civilization (anti-civ), is an anti-left (often, though less accurately, described as post-left) current within [...]

hex_m_hell - Transitliberationism
hex_m_hell - Transitliberationism

Author: hex_m_hellTitle: TransitliberationismSubtitle: A Bicycle Anarchist ManifestoDate: 07-20-2026Source: Retrieved on 07-21-2026 from https://hexmhell.writeas.com/transitliberationism-a-bicycle-anarchist-manifesto I’m not a bike guy. I don’t know what brand my seat is. I think my gears [...]

Luis Olvera Maldonado - (Excerpts from) The Social Revolution in Northern Mexico and the Anarchist Communes of the Mexican Liberal Party 1911–1915
Luis Olvera Maldonado - (Excerpts from) The Social Revolution in Northern Mexico and the Anarchist Communes of the Mexican Liberal Party 1911–1915

Author: Luis Olvera MaldonadoTitle: (Excerpts from) The Social Revolution in Northern Mexico and the Anarchist Communes of the Mexican Liberal Party 1911–1915Date: 2021Notes: Translated from Luis Olvera Maldonado, “La revolución [...]

Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri - Empire
Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri - Empire

Author: Michael Hardt & Antonio NegriTitle: EmpireDate: 2000Source: This is a Digital PDF conversion with MS word with a fair few errors where words have been mashed together that still [...]

Dimitris Xantzivasiliadis - International call for the revolutionary union of anarchists
Dimitris Xantzivasiliadis - International call for the revolutionary union of anarchists

Author: Dimitris XantzivasiliadisTitle: International call for the revolutionary union of anarchistsDate: 11/2/2025Notes: 2Umberto Tomazini, The Anarchist Blacksmith, ed. Eutopia, Athens 2024 3The platformist organizations UNIPA and OPAR in their project [...]

Nandita Sharma - Home Rule
Nandita Sharma - Home Rule

Author: Nandita SharmaTitle: Home RuleSubtitle: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and MigrantsDate: 14 February 2020Source:   For Santosh Rani Sharma and Gaye Chan Acknowledgments My mother, Santosh Sharma, [...]

Gary Chartier and Charles W. Johnson - Markets Not Capitalism
Gary Chartier and Charles W. Johnson - Markets Not Capitalism

Author: Gary Chartier and Charles W. JohnsonTitle: Markets Not CapitalismSubtitle: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural PovertyDate: November 2011Notes: Cover image based on an image by Walter [...]

Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler - Capital as Power
Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler - Capital as Power

Author: Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon BichlerTitle: Capital as PowerSubtitle: A Study of Order and CreorderDate: 2 June 2009Source: Routledge.   Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: [...]

Michael Taylor - Introduction to ‘The Possibility of Cooperation’
Michael Taylor - Introduction to ‘The Possibility of Cooperation’

Author: Michael TaylorTitle: Introduction to ‘The Possibility of Cooperation’Subtitle: The Problem of Collective ActionDate: August 1987Source: The most persuasive justification of the state is founded on the argument that, without [...]

Tal & Skinny - The Match Consumed
Tal & Skinny - The Match Consumed

Author: Tal & SkinnyTitle: The Match ConsumedSubtitle: A Condensed Reading of “Blessed is the Flame”Date: 2023/12/06Source: Blessed is the match consumed    in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns [...]

Sasha Warren - Open propositions for a strategic madness
Sasha Warren - Open propositions for a strategic madness

Author: Sasha WarrenTitle: Open propositions for a strategic madnessDate: Dec 29, 2023Source: Of Unsound Mind. “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” –William Shakespeare, Hamlet. These propositions are [...]

Matt Broomfield - Hope Without Hope
Matt Broomfield - Hope Without Hope

Author: Matt BroomfieldTitle: Hope Without HopeSubtitle: Rojava and Revolutionary CommitmentDate: 2025F When Pandora opened her box, she let loose all the evils into the world. Terrified, she slammed it shut, [...]

Mother Glenda - You’re on the wrong side of history
Mother Glenda - You’re on the wrong side of history

Author: Mother GlendaTitle: You’re on the wrong side of historySubtitle: DHS-ICEDate: 01/15/2026Notes: Post with visuals — https://www.instagram.com/p/DTip2ITEdxe/ Source: Retrieved on July 19 2026 from https://www.instagram.com/p/DTip2ITEdxe/ Shared with me to post [...]

Zaher Baher - Power, State, and Class
Zaher Baher - Power, State, and Class

Author: Zaher BaherTitle: Power, State, and ClassSubtitle: Article by KAF memberDate: 29th June, 2026Source: https://i-f-a.org/2026/06/29/power-state-and-class-the-two-fronts-of-anarchist-struggle-article-by-kaf-member/ Power, State, and Class: the two Fronts of Anarchist Struggle Zaher Baher Jun 2026 We [...]

Agustín Guillamón - Versus the State
Agustín Guillamón - Versus the State

Author: Agustín GuillamónTitle: Versus the StateSubtitle: Theses on War, Revolution and ProletariatDate: 2025Notes: An anthology of articles by Guillamón from 2016–2024. Translated by Paul Sharkey.Source: Kate Sharpley Library   Versus [...]

Russia’s planned 500-ton naval drone sparks criticism from pro-war commentators
Russia’s planned 500-ton naval drone sparks criticism from pro-war commentators

Russia is building its largest ever uncrewed naval vessel — with a displacement of 500 metric tons — designed to search for submarines and other underwater objects, Russian navy commander-in-chief [...]

Beryllium on the radar: Kazakhstan has become an indispensable supplier of materials to the Russian defense industry
Beryllium on the radar: Kazakhstan has become an indispensable supplier of materials to the Russian defense industry

On July 25, at a meeting with Vladimir Putin, Kazakhstan’s president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed that Russia end its war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, however, The Insider found that Kazakhstan continues to serve [...]

EU cancels ban on Russian sable fur due to pressure from Italy and Greece
EU cancels ban on Russian sable fur due to pressure from Italy and Greece

The European Union has removed dressed and processed Russian sable pelts from its list of goods banned from import. The restriction was lifted a mere three months after being introduced [...]

Off-season: How the war has devastated tourism in Russia
Off-season: How the war has devastated tourism in Russia

Russian travel agencies are taking stock of the first half of the summer, and the results are dismal. Hotel bookings in June were down by 15% year-on-year, and the situation [...]

Brussels set to sanction Georgia’s only oil refinery if it fails to stop using Russian crude in the next six months
Brussels set to sanction Georgia’s only oil refinery if it fails to stop using Russian crude in the next six months

Georgia’s only operating oil refinery, located in Kulevi on the Black Sea coast, has been included in the European Union’s 21st sanctions package. Brussels is demanding that the refinery stop buying [...]

EU includes support ship and crewing agency on “shadow fleet” sanctions list for the first time
EU includes support ship and crewing agency on “shadow fleet” sanctions list for the first time

The European Union has added 41 more vessels to its Russia sanctions list, bringing the total number of listed ships to 673. The sanctions also targeted Aquamarine Ship Management LLC, a crewing [...]

EU sanctions A7 cryptocurrency network and Russian banking executive exposed by The Insider
EU sanctions A7 cryptocurrency network and Russian banking executive exposed by The Insider

The European Union has imposed sanctions on participants in the A7 cryptocurrency network, adding A7A5 project head Leonid Shumakov and Promsvyazbank chairman Mikhail Dorofeev to its lists, along with the companies [...]

GRU officer who procured military technology in Japan for Russia leaves Tokyo after being exposed by investigations
GRU officer who procured military technology in Japan for Russia leaves Tokyo after being exposed by investigations

Maxim Filchenkov, an officer of Russia’s GRU military intelligence directorate who posed as an Aeroflot employee, has left Japan, where he had been involved in sourcing high-tech equipment for Russian [...]

Russian construction project prompts UNESCO to add ancient Tauric Chersonese site in occupied Crimea to its list of World Heritage in danger
Russian construction project prompts UNESCO to add ancient Tauric Chersonese site in occupied Crimea to its list of World Heritage in danger

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has added the ancient city of Tauric Chersonese to its list of World Heritage in Danger, with the site’s “chora,” or surrounding agricultural lands belonging to the city-state, [...]

Russian court hands teenager 8 years in prison for setting fire to a Mi-8 helicopter at Noyabrsk airport in 2024
Russian court hands teenager 8 years in prison for setting fire to a Mi-8 helicopter at Noyabrsk airport in 2024

A Russian court has sentenced a 16-year-old boy from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District to eight years in prison over the arson of an Mi-8 helicopter at the airport in the [...]

German military engineers deployed to help Poland build defenses in Suwałki Gap against possible Russian attack
German military engineers deployed to help Poland build defenses in Suwałki Gap against possible Russian attack

Bundeswehr military engineers and Polish sappers have begun building defensive fortifications along Poland’s border with Belarus and Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad, including in the strategically important Suwałki Gap, Germany’s Operational [...]

New Ukrainian commander-in-chief Mykhailo Drapatyi offers “second chance” for army reforms, military experts tell The Insider
New Ukrainian commander-in-chief Mykhailo Drapatyi offers “second chance” for army reforms, military experts tell The Insider

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently made another round of changes to the top command of the country’s armed forces. Major General Ihor Skybiuk was appointed chief of the General Staff, replacing [...]

Trial opens in Warsaw for Russian lawyer accused of organizing attacks on opposition figures abroad
Trial opens in Warsaw for Russian lawyer accused of organizing attacks on opposition figures abroad

A trial has begun in the Warsaw District Court for Russian citizen Anatoly Blinov, a lawyer who stands accused of organizing attacks on Leonid Volkov and other Russian opposition figures. [...]

Russia’s most advanced Su-57 fighter jet crashes during training flight near Moscow
Russia’s most advanced Su-57 fighter jet crashes during training flight near Moscow

A Russian Su-57 fighter jet crashed near the village of Lutsino in the Moscow Region earlier today, according to a report by the Telegram channel Mash. The aircraft model was confirmed by the [...]

Ancient Tavros settlement stands in path of Rotenberg hotel complex in Crimea — it cannot be preserved, assessment finds
Ancient Tavros settlement stands in path of Rotenberg hotel complex in Crimea — it cannot be preserved, assessment finds

A Russian state historical and cultural assessment has found that it is physically impossible to preserve most of the Tavros Settlement, an archaeological site located in Russian-occupied Crimea. The area [...]

Open but off-limits: Who actually controls the Strait of Hormuz?
Open but off-limits: Who actually controls the Strait of Hormuz?

At this moment, no one can say with certainty who controls the Strait of Hormuz. Everyone understands that the United States holds all of the strongest cards, but Iran still [...]

Russia moves to suspend property rights for exiled citizens convicted of “discrediting” the army and violating “foreign agent” laws
Russia moves to suspend property rights for exiled citizens convicted of “discrediting” the army and violating “foreign agent” laws

Russia’s State Duma has passed a bill that would allow the state to suspend the property rights of Russian citizens convicted in absentia, effectively opening up a “legal” pathway for the [...]

German authorities allow plant in Lower Saxony to make nuclear fuel with license and involvement of Russia’s Rosatom
German authorities allow plant in Lower Saxony to make nuclear fuel with license and involvement of Russia’s Rosatom

On July 22, Germany’s federal government and the Environment Ministry of Lower Saxony approved the expansion of a nuclear fuel plant in the town of Lingen. According to a statement on [...]

Russia could get its first endangered World Heritage site as UNESCO reviews status of Lake Baikal due to logging law
Russia could get its first endangered World Heritage site as UNESCO reviews status of Lake Baikal due to logging law

Lake Baikal could be added to UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger, according to a draft decision by the World Heritage Committee that was prepared for the organization’s 48th session in [...]

Transit flights over Moscow Region barred under new airspace restrictions triggered by Ukrainian drone attacks
Transit flights over Moscow Region barred under new airspace restrictions triggered by Ukrainian drone attacks

Russia’s civil aviation agency Rosaviatsiya has lowered the maximum flight altitude near Moscow airports and banned transit flights over Moscow and the surrounding region, the Kremlin-aligned business newspaper Kommersant reported on July [...]

Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty
Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty

"There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place... do the next thing with diligence and devotion." [...]

The Donkey and the Meaning of Life
The Donkey and the Meaning of Life

"Come with me. I'll teach you the flowers and the stars." [...]

Love Anyway
Love Anyway

You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, [...]

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 [...]

The One Hundred Milliseconds Between the World and You: Oliver Sacks on Perception
The One Hundred Milliseconds Between the World and You: Oliver Sacks on Perception

“If the doors of perception were cleansed,” William Blake wrote, “everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” But we are finite creatures, in time and in space, and [...]

How to Live a Miraculous Life
How to Live a Miraculous Life

Suppose we agree that we are here to love anyway — to love even though the work is almost unbearably difficult, even though we know that everything alive is dying, [...]

How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship
How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship

It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal ourselves and transcend ourselves, there that we are hurt the most and there [...]

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." [...]

Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life
Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life

A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of "the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great." [...]

Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and Ms. Boodle: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Advice on Writing to a Young Woman Aspiring to Be an Author
Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and Ms. Boodle: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Advice on Writing to a Young Woman Aspiring to Be an Author

In late 1884, Adelaide Boodle — talented, timorous, still in her twenties — received news so thrilling she thought she was dreaming: Her favorite author was moving into the small [...]

Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life
Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

"In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity." [...]

Dostoyevsky in Love
Dostoyevsky in Love

“I love her happiness more than my own.” [...]

Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors
Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors

"Sometimes as an antidote to fear of death, I eat the stars." [...]

Carl Jung on Creativity
Carl Jung on Creativity

The question of what it takes to create — to make something of beauty and substance that touches other lives across space and time — is one of the deepest, [...]

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." [...]

G.K. Chesterton on the Dandelion and the Meaning of Life
G.K. Chesterton on the Dandelion and the Meaning of Life

Recovering the "forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence" alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds. [...]

Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak
Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak

"Who is good if he knows not who he is? and who knows what he is, if he forgets that things which have been made are perishable, and that it [...]

From Mitochondria to Minds: The Illustrated Science of the Psychedelic Dream Called Life
From Mitochondria to Minds: The Illustrated Science of the Psychedelic Dream Called Life

Like consciousness, like music, like love, life itself didn’t have to exist — nothing in the fundamental laws demands it. The universe could have gone on lapping at itself as [...]

How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life
How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Few things in our culture are more wounding than the concept of healing — as if the pains and losses that we suffer are an illness, a malfunction of the [...]

How to Help Someone Change: The Samurai Guide to Giving Feedback
How to Help Someone Change: The Samurai Guide to Giving Feedback

Few things in life are more exasperating than seeing the potential in someone you love and seeing them continually fall short of it, stumbling again and again over the same [...]

What backup solution do you use?

What backup solution do you sue for your laptop? - Please say you use one ;) For years I've used Deja Dup which is fine but relies on snap shots. [...]

T440p in good condition to be sold

Hi, I have bought some times ago the T440p to run free software on it. Everything works well, everything was upgraded (screen, keyboard, RAM and storage). Everything is technically in [...]

Disabling sticky Alt+Fn

Something on the to-do list is try to resolve the function key issue with my Advent laptop. An example, if I press Alt F6 (Volume down), the key press "sticks" [...]

Trisquel Repository(ies)

Does Trisquel MINI use the same Repository as Trisquel? Thanks. [...]

ARM hardware compatibility

Hi to everyone! As in this previous release annoucement, https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-110-aramo-release-announcement, where can I read about the 32bit and 64bit ARM hardware compatibility of Trisquel GNU/Linux? [...]

Do you still run Trisquel, even if...

Do you still run Trisquel, even if your hardware is unsupported without free software? Or do you choose another distribution? As someone who has many computers (and computer hardware) laying [...]

download repository

I bought an external harddisk for downloading the Trisquel repository. 1. In order to download the repository in which format should I format the harddisk? ext4 or other ? 2. [...]

add-packagesource continued answer

I can´t send it through the website, so via email. What can I do, that it does not create a new topic? here the output that I wanted to send [...]

Non Member

Today the whole website of Trisquel is unavailable. Writing a message to the users list I am getting the anser: I am a NON-MEMBER and this mail has to be [...]

[AI] Could FSF use AI to complete and develop the GNU kernel, Hurd/Mach?

I just though of that. [...]

As Senegal Cracks Down on LGBTQ Rights, Activists Seek Help From Abroad
As Senegal Cracks Down on LGBTQ Rights, Activists Seek Help From Abroad

Since February, Senegalese authorities have initiated a crackdown against the LGBTQ community, reportedly arresting hundreds across the country. The post As Senegal Cracks Down on LGBTQ Rights, Activists Seek Help [...]

The District of Calamity: Freedom 250 and the Semiquincentennial in Washington
The District of Calamity: Freedom 250 and the Semiquincentennial in Washington

Residents and tourists of the nation’s capital saw the city transformed into a circus for more than a month – a site for media spectacles and thinly-veiled celebrations of the [...]

Inside Greece’s Refugee Camps, Gender-Based Violence Is Built Into the System 
Inside Greece’s Refugee Camps, Gender-Based Violence Is Built Into the System 

Since 2022, the German collective Rosa Rolling Safespace has been providing a mobile safe space for women living in refugee camps around Athens. Their work shows that gender-based violence in [...]

NYC Activists Maintain Boycott Against ‘Blood Money Rave’ Boiler Room
NYC Activists Maintain Boycott Against ‘Blood Money Rave’ Boiler Room

The fight for nightlife goes on as Boycott Room, a group of DJs, organizers and activists that have been calling for a coordinated boycott of the event series and video [...]

In Athens, Albania’s Diaspora Watches a Revolt at Home, and Finds Its Own Voice
In Athens, Albania’s Diaspora Watches a Revolt at Home, and Finds Its Own Voice

What started as an environmental protest in Albania related to Trump's son-in-law's business ventures became something bigger — addressing long-standing corruption, the right to information and transparency and who gets [...]

Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15
Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15

The Minnesota 15 case is about conversations, thousands of pages of it, harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build conspiracy [...]

Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years
Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years

According to federal prosecutors, the defendants were the members of a murderous “North Texas Antifa Cell.” The Prairieland defendants received over 562 years in federal prison -- the longest sentence [...]

Sam Gregory to Step Down as Executive Director of WITNESS
Sam Gregory to Step Down as Executive Director of WITNESS

After 25 years of visionary leadership at WITNESS, Sam Gregory to step down as Executive Director. [...]

WITNESS convenes experts in Geneva and launches new report on AI, content authenticity, and surveillance risks

On July 8, WITNESS and the Forum on Information and Democracy hosted Trustworthy by Design: AI, Content Authenticity, and the Future of Reliable Information, a convening that brought together experts [...]

Consent at the Centre: Meta’s Oversight Board Decision Reflects WITNESS’ Key Concerns on AI-generated Sexualized Impersonation

The Meta Oversight Board, an independent body that reviews the company’s content moderation decisions, today overturned Meta’s decision to keep online an AI-generated sexualized video that had been reported by [...]

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 [...]

Tuesday 7/28: Stop The War with Iran STANDOUT

Veterans For Peace and Indivisible Monterey are very concerned about the Trump administration’s reckless and dangerous escalation of the U.S. (and Israel’s) war on Iran. So we are co-sponsoring this [...]

The Enemies of 1776

July 3rd, 2026. The sun rises on the tents of the displaced in Gaza. It has been one thousand and one days, and the deliberate, quotidian work of genocide continues. [...]

Losing And Death

Michelle Boorstein @ The Washington Post: ‘Sacred Liberty’ exhibition explores faith and freedom in America For the Museum of the Bible, founded nine years ago in Washington, D.C., the goal [...]

Undeniable And Inevitable

Tony Perkins declares that “the decisive battle for America’s future will not ultimately be won in Congress, but in the church as it once again shapes the nation’s moral character”: [...]

Rights abuses seen in US-Ecuador joint operations

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on July 21 detailing four attacks on Ecuadorian persons, properties and vessels that they attribute to an intensified counter-narcotics campaign led by the [...]

DOPE Magazine #4

Published Winter 2018. Author Ruth Kinna Kim Kelly Submitted by Fozzie on July 27, 2026 Contents Tactics – Kim Kelly The Rhyming Guide to Voting – Potent Whisper Anarcho-Corbynism – [...]

Thursday 8/6: Nuclear Abolition or Extinction: A Rally and Protest at Livermore Lab

From the Open-Publishing Calendar From the Open-Publishing Newswire Indybay Feature Date: Thursday, August 06, 2026 Time: 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM Event Type: Protest Organizer/Author: Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive [...]

How Hakeem Jeffries and J Street Teamed Up for Arming Genocide

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