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Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...
Internet Roadtrip
Let's take a streetview roadtrip
neal.fun
May 31, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

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April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....
April 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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The weather forecasts you see on TV or the severe storm alerts you get from your apps are powered by a federal science agency that’s in line for some of the most drastic cuts proposed by the Trump administration so far.
February 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Citizen Lab released a report that highlights three serious security issues in the RedNote app, including that the app retrieves uploaded user content in a way that allows anyone else on your network, at your ISP, or organizations like the NSA, to see everything you look at and upload to RedNote.
Crimson Memo: Analyzing the Privacy Impact of Xianghongshu AKA Red Note
Early in January 2025 it seemed like TikTok was on the verge of being banned by the U.S. government. In reaction to this imminent ban, several million people in the United States signed up for a diffe...
www.eff.org
February 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Trump saying Ukraine could have avoided a lot of deaths by surrendering early is like a sexual predator saying their victim could have avoided being beaten and assaulted by just submitting right off.

Not a coincidence he has that mentality either.
February 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect
Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect
WASHINGTON—Stressing that he was open to going far higher to close the deal, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he had made an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to acquire respect. “This is a ...
theonion.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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On Aaron Swartz: “He stood for freedom of access to information, especially for scientific research — things the public had already paid for.” - Lisa Rein, co-founder of @creativecommons.bsky.social

sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/a...
Aaron Swartz, patron saint of the open-access internet, gets immortalized in SF
Hundreds gathered at the Internet Archive for the unveiling of a statue honoring the late programmer, who's been embraced as a tech hero.
sfstandard.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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I love programming computers more than anything I've ever done in my life...

Yet I can't make myself do that anymore.

Nothing is stopping me, except some invisible walls in my mind.

My dev computer is just asleep all the time...waiting to compile.

I'm hunting for a reset button on my joys.
Help
February 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Those good times on Epstein's Lolita Express?
February 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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February 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The courts have once again ignored the demands of millions of Americans by thwarting sensible federal net neutrality regulations. That means Congress and the states must step in to preserve a free and open internet, EFF’s Corynne McSherry wrote in The Well News.
Net Neutrality Needs to Be Preserved
<p>The courts have once again ignored the demands of millions of Americans by thwarting sensible federal net neutrality regulations. That means Congress and the states must step in to preserve a free ...
www.thewellnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️

Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...
February 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I do have to give it to Nvidia on this. They made an awesome streaming device when they made the Shield. It's still getting updates after 10 years and it has been one of the most reliable devices in my house
February 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM