InfoWars agrees to pay Pepe the Frog creator $15,000 in copyright settlement ~tech Article 559 words 25 votes
How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use: The second half of humanity is joining the internet ~tech internet Article 3855 words 4 votes
Publishers that closed their comments sections made a colossal mistake ~misc Article 1582 words, published May 16 2019 9 votes
The Mind-Body Solution: Neal Stephenson’s Fall explores higher consciousness, the internet’s future, and virtual worldbuilding in one mind-blowing adventure. ~books science fiction reviews Article 1727 words 5 votes
'It's time for us to watch them': App lets you spy on Alexa and the rest of your smart devices ~tech privacy internet Article 258 words, published Apr 25 2019 11 votes
The Google outage highlights the perils of a centralized internet ~tech google internet Article 585 words 4 votes
'If not I, then who?’: Armed with the internet, Russia’s young people want to remake their world ~life Link 10 votes
Will Starlink and other satellite networks ruin the night sky for astronomers? ~space astronomy satellites Video 11:13 4 votes
EFF launches "TOSsed Out", a new project to highlight ways that Terms of Service and other rules are unevenly and unthinkingly applied to people by online services ~tech social media internet Article 434 words 12 votes
Soon you may not even have to click on a website contract to be bound by its terms ~tech internet Article 1696 words 7 votes
Alex Jones’s Pepe the Frog copyright trial will help decide who can use memes ~tech Article 623 words 18 votes
If anyone can see the morally unthinkable online, what then? ~humanities philosophy Article 1196 words 5 votes
"By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters" - An implementation of Borges' Library of Babel ~misc Link 10 votes
How the news took over reality: Is engagement with current affairs key to being a good citizen? Or could an endless torrent of notifications be harming democracy as well as our wellbeing? ~news journalism Article 10 votes
Sonic’s live-action design upset the entire internet, so the studio is changing it ~movies Article 382 words 12 votes
SpaceX cuts broadband-satellite altitude in half to prevent space debris ~space satellites Article 763 words 7 votes
Tumblr helped me plan my eating disorder. Then it helped me heal. ~health.mental Article 1255 words 10 votes
The woman who plotted a Valentine's mass murder shares how the internet radicalized her ~tech internet social media Article 2274 words, published Feb 21 2019 17 votes
It’s Complicated: Mozilla’s 2019 Internet Health Report ~tech internet privacy social media Article 1415 words 8 votes
Russian court fines Internet user hundreds of dollars for calling Vladimir Putin an ‘unbelievable fuckwit’ ~news russia Article 222 words 20 votes
When a country bans social media - Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: what if a global media network is impossible? ~tech social media internet Article 529 words 5 votes
Don’t buy a 5G smartphone—at least, not for a while ~tech smartphones internet Article 1392 words, published Dec 14 2018 20 votes
Report: Twenty-six states now ban or restrict community broadband ~tech internet Article 826 words 9 votes
Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties ~tech internet privacy Link 15 votes
Police are making tone-deaf memes to build community trust ~tech internet social media Article 5 votes
An internet for kids: Instead of regulating the internet to protect young people, give them a youth-net of their own ~tech internet Article 577 words 12 votes
End the tyranny of Arial: The big internet platforms use the same fonts and backgrounds. Let’s make it interesting again. ~design typography Article 1304 words 15 votes
Blind people can struggle to understand memes, so they made their own ~life Article 1663 words 11 votes
You can never go home to GeoCities again - The new video games Hypnospace and Wrong Box offer up complicated nostalgia for the internet of yesterday ~games Article 1523 words, published Mar 31 2019 4 votes
Welcome to the prude internet: No more sex talk allowed ~tech nsfw internet social media Article 530 words 32 votes