Via Kottke, whose also turned coverage almost exclusively to stories about the Putsch unfolding in the United States, we are directed to Techdirt’s founder and senior editor Mike Masnick’s very resonant piece on why the technology site has pivoted its focus towards reporting on how rights and liberties are in peril and that it’s now a democracy blog (whether we like it or not), reemphasising that the venerable platform had always reported on not just technologic trends but moreover the intersectionality of innovation and policy—privacy, patents, intellectual property—and now that those institutions that fostered creativity and development are under threat. If they disappear, and those doing the dismantling are not offering something better to replace them in terms of education, access, autonomy or transparency, so does all of the other fun stuff that we internet caretakers curate, in tech and culture and science.
synchronoptica
one year ago: the Odyssey in the Baltics (with synchronoptica) plus assorted links worth the revisit
seven years ago: bizarre Philip K Dick paperback cover art, Picasso’s doppelganger plus more non-existent words
eight years ago: The Man in the High Castle, Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel, AI travel agents plus Trump as the Manchurian Candidate
ten years ago: America and moral panics, more links to enjoy, serving wine to cattle plus capturing the panoramic sweep of sacred architecture
eleven years ago: transdimensional carpentry plus more developments in fusion energy
