The Garden

Take back the web. Make it weird again - soulcruzer

Bob Sassone’s website is thirty years old.

Sunset meets its Equinox | Paul Stephenson | Offprint

Get the complete Season 4 in ebook or paperback now

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

Armies Seize Territory. Empires Seize Language. | Jason G. Butterfield | Offprint

What renaming a lake tells us about sovereignty, and the normalization of ownership

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.

Could this be the beginning of the end for the billionaire-owned media propaganda blitz?

A campaign to free our national press from foreign billionaires like Rupert Murdoch is gaining momentum and attracting big-name support

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.

The climate crisis: a war on the world

The climate crisis is a self-destructive war, with aggressors and victims

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.

Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty

The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty

Ready for Farage? ICE’s tech enablers are already embedded in the British state

Palantir, Anduril, Cellebrite and others supply America’s deportation machine. They also hold UK contracts with the Home Office, MoD and police – offering surveillance capabilities that a Reform government would inherit. Max Colbert reports

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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...