first comes the performance, then comes the repetition, then comes the integration: thirty lonely yet beautiful acts of defiance—even including social media—via Kottke
fubar: Muckrock presents its FOIA Foilies awards for 2025—probably too early—see previously
not shuttered, per se, just considered complete: venerable UbuWeb started back up after closure last year
audible enclaves: researchers have discovered how to beam sounds to a targeted listener—via the New Shelton wet/dry
it’s peanut butter jelly time: froghorn.exe is an homage to what used to be the internet’s biggest draw
programmable mutterer: the allure of magical thinking and how the displaced grace of AI could prove more analogous to markets and institutions steering better than individuals
smoking gun: Trump declassifies a tranche of documents on the JFK assassination, unredacted and “ushering in a new era of maximum transparency
greeks bearing gifts: Senator Schumer votes to let the wooden horse into Troy