Take back the web. Make it weird again - soulcruzer

Bob Sassone’s website is thirty years old.

Social Media and Anti-Social Pluralism - Aaron Ross Powell

Communities are different online and off, and pluralism that thrives in the real world can turn toxic in the digital world.

Technorealists, the silent majority? - open self

you might find yourself standing in the unremarkable center

Skyreader Vision - Skyreader Dev Log

What Skyreader and the reading app ecosystem can become with your support

Road to a book lexicon (Part 2) - Nick The Sick

The one where I actually define a lexicon

The Turing Collapse | Jason G. Butterfield | Offprint

When we can no longer tell who's real online

Bluesky Is Flat. Fine. Look Under the Hood. | Jason G. Butterfield | Offprint

Monthly active users are useful. They’re just not enough to measure the Atmosphere.

SF's Tech Right Debates the Ideal Dictator

Putrid vibes reigned at SF billionaire-funded Hamilton Society debate.

Roomy joins Modal incubator - Roomy

Rigorous institutional structures make for credible purpose-orientation.

Pluralistic: IP can’t save you from AI (18 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

You don't have to believe that AI "art" is any good (I don't), nor do you have to believe that AI "art" can be any good (I don't) to understand that the reason that the capital markets are putting trillions into AI is that they believe they can fire workers of every kind and replace them with AI:

Pluralistic: The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop publicly rending their garments about the terrible potential of their products, from the jobspocalypse that will ensue when AI can do our jobs better than us, to the impending moment when the word-guessing programs learn too many words, wake up and turn us all into paperclips.

Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training

An interview with one of the Amazon employees at Amazon’s AI training facility VGT3.

The Garden, Part Three: Eden | Paul Stephenson | Offprint

This is the concluding post in a (very) occasional series I began writing a few months back called 'The Garden'. In...

It's working - Tynan's Leaflets

5 pieces of context on a single post, proving what the social web offers today

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

Pluralistic: Model collapse (12 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things together (showing that two different, seemingly unrelated ideas are aspects of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving a paradox by demonstrating that what appears to be one, contradictory thing is actually two different things that have been lumped together).

OpenAI’s “Head of Ethics” Suddenly Leaves Company Under Mysterious Circumstances

Chloé Bakalar left her post as OpenAI's ethics lead in July, less than a year after joining the company, without any announcement.

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

Social Capital - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere

The problem Atproto is solving

We Needn't Have a One True Platform - Aaron Ross Powell

On Bluesky, user numbers, and the silliness of endless growth.