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@chrisshank.me

70 years of AI hype

DHS Facial Recognition Software Used Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT

Revealed: How undercover agents spied on anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota

The movement to defend the Minneapolis 15

Right-leaning groups say MN 15 prosecution violates free speech of anti-ICE activists

Trump’s Crackdown on Dissent Comes for Minnesota Anti-ICE Organizers

The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Tech's right turn : the rise of reactionary politics in Silicon Valley and online

Technology is Not Values Neutral: Ending the Reign of Nihilistic Design

Cyber-Marx

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

📏 When machines start calling the shots

Information Civics
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The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck

新大阪駅で消えた犯罪組織幹部 「東京の生活」手がかりに追ったT3:朝日新聞

Directors of Firms Linked to Sanctioned Cambodian Conglomerate Bought Properties in Japan

「アジア最大の犯罪組織」最高幹部逮捕 うその住民異動容疑、警視庁:朝日新聞

Hong Kong Justice Department Applies for Order to Freeze Prince Group Assets

Executive linked to major Asian crime group arrested in Japan
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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
Triumph of the Nerds: The Transcripts, Part I

Everest Pipkin

Digital Topology & Economic Power
bandukwala.me
The iPhone Duo’s windows into Liquid Glass - Quibbletown by Keren

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Dark mode toggles: two states are enough • Lea Verou

SVG Filters on Type

Parakeet Blog: The Shape of Apps

Your Grid Lanes will likely fail WCAG 2.4.3 - Manuel Matuzovic

Hister | Your Own Search Engine
atproto-aware concept search engine

Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse | The Walrus
It was a huge honor to present the opening keynote address at #SIGIR2026 and to talk about the need for IR to resist uncritical adoption of…
We’re — slowly, yes, but surely — building an open, decentralized search index with atproto

What’s the Difference Between Search and Recommendation? | TechPolicy.Press
Bulletin: RSS News Reader App - App Store

Unread: An RSS Reader

ByeDoom — Give a Link → Get a Feed

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The Cat API - Cat as a Service

Mapping Trump's Crypto Empire

What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?

bsky.land - Real-time Bluesky Image Feed

Channel Surfer - Watch YouTube Like It's Cable TV

Rebrickable | Rebrickable - Build with LEGO
Folk Tech – tech for life
part of technocracy - a limit to its power - is a structural inability to be emotionally vulnerable
Technocracy References
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Toward a Critical Technical Practice

Analog Resistance: Why Mechanical Simplicity Matters in an Increasingly Digital Cycling World
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