By subverting the voluntary nature of open standards, Apple has defanged them as tools that users might use against the totalising power of native apps in their digital lives. This high-modernist approach is antithetical to the foundational commitments of internet standards bodies and, over time, erode them.| Infrequently Noted
Cloud-Dienste und Plattformen kommen aus den USA, Mikrochips aus Taiwan, Seltene Erden aus China. Die Digitalisierung hat zu massiven Abhängigkeiten geführt, von denen Europa sich spätestens seit Donald Trumps Amtsantritt lösen will. Welche Konzepte gibt es dafür?| netzpolitik.org
Algorithms can watch our behaviour and determine what millions of us see when we log on.| BBC News
During the 2020 Covid lockdowns, the privately owned realms of the internet became the obligatory venues for public life.| Compact
We had the idea for Replit in Jordan, launched as a startup in New York, and incorporated as a company in San Mateo. The US gave us the infrastructure, the capital, and network to launch our business, and for that we're forever grateful. However, to us, the internet is a new country and we want to make our citizenship official and our commitment real. We're joining our global community of hackers, students, teachers, and entrepreneurs and becoming a global company and service. Starting today:...| Replit Blog
Am 25. und 26. Februar 2025 fand die sogenannte Industrial Metaverse Conference im SZ Hochhaus in München statt. Die Konferenz wurde von SV Veranstaltungen organisiert, einem Veranstaltungsunternehmen, das zum selben Medienkonglomerat wie die Süddeutsche Zeitung gehört. Für knapp 1.500 Euro Teilnahmegebühr konnte man an den zwei Tagen Vorträgen und Diskussionen von Vertreter:innen namhafter Industrieunternehmen und […]| Netz Für Alle
A review of Balaji Srinivasan's book, The Network State.| davekarpf.substack.com
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.| wreckage/salvage
“My own sense of identity has gone through a massive change in the last several years.”| The Informed Life
The U.S. needs to return to lighter, more flexible regulation when it comes to AI.| The Dispatch
Whether it’s “bringing the world closer together” (Facebook), “organizing the world’s information” (Google), to be a market “where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online” (Amazon) or “to make personal computing accessible to each and every individual” (Apple), the founding missions of tech giants reveal a desire to become indispensable to our digital lives.| Electronic Frontier Foundation
Two items of interest passed through my feeds this week. The first is the podcast Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz released to explain why they are endorsing Trump for president. The second is an ev…| The Scholar's Stage
Social and political theorists have tied the emergence of cities to the origin of civilization since the earliest written records we have found. The perhaps four-thousand-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh, which shaped and inspired later literature, including the Bible, opens on what is best understood as an extended meditation on the nature of city life. In it, a wild man named Enkidu, who is created by the gods to humble King Gilgamesh, the ruler of the city, makes his way to the great city of Ur.| Palladium Magazine
Guest essay by Andrew Lowenthal, expert in digital rights and open technology.| disinformationchronicle.substack.com
Amid worries about what Big Tech is doing to our privacy, politics, and psyches, many stakeholders—from activists to technocrats—are calling for a new rule book.| The New Yorker
I’m feeling pretty fed up with the state of the world, and the feeling has definitely become more intense recently. There are a number of reasons, but the most obvious one is politics. Politics feels totally broken in the United States and in disarray at the international level too. I’m sure I’m not alone in this feeling.| Applescotch
Dark Mode Toggle| vitalik.eth.limo
On Wednesday, October 14th, Twitter locked the accounts of a White House press secretary and the New York Post, one of America’s largest tabloid newspapers. The accounts shared a story the Post ran on leaked emails which seemingly implicate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son in corruption. When users tried to share the story publicly or privately, they found a message informing them that their tweets could not be sent. Chinese users of Twitter mused on the feeling of déjà...| Palladium Magazine
A slippery slope to the death of the Internet.| libresolutions.network
A slippery slope to the death of the internet.| libresolutionsnetwork.substack.com
This post contains the complete text of the Beacon Book: a collection of perspectives from 46 researchers and implementers that worked on the Ethereum Beacon Chain. We hope you enjoy reading it! Join our discord if you'd like to discuss.| stateful.mirror.xyz
In recent essays I’ve been making an affirmative case for an “economic independence” movement — that is, a concerted effort to empower families and communities to be less dependent on market and state provision.| brinklindsey.substack.com
Paid groups, bespoke social networks, and the meaning of community for internet-native businesses.| subpixel.space
under conditions of algorithmic life| jasminewang.substack.com
Sam Altman's "Moore's Law for Everything" manifesto is a mess. Why do we still take these people seriously?| davekarpf.substack.com
