Digital Crossroads

Bilbro’s book is a careful study through profound literary texts about how we live in a world that has no patience for careful study through profound literary texts.

A new inquiry from the Federal Trade Commission suggests that apologizing for "censorship" may have only emboldened the company's conservative critics

Matt Webb has been blogging for twenty-five years. What an incredible milestone. Obviously, much has changed in the realm of self-publishing since Webb started out in 2000. Back then, as he points out, we blogged as if we were using social media platforms like Twitter/X: So I would post 4 or 6 times...

Germany goes to the polls on Sunday for an election that could prove transformative. The key player is the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which won 10.4% of the vote in the last federal election. Current polling puts AfD at roughly twice that level, a result that would likely rank th...

I’m currently very much enjoying Cody’s “Alone Atop Mt. Fuji” pop-up newsletter. There’s something about this type of content that’s appealing to my brain. And I’m not talking about the fact that it’s a newsletter or the fact that I enjoy Cody’s writing and pictures. I’m talking about the finite nat...

An overview of GoToSocial: a fast, lightweight, security-focused server that makes self-hosting on the Fediverse easy

When I saw an NBCU executive talk about her desire to "feed them content" -- with "them" being her "customers" -- I knew that I had to write an article.

With reproductive rights under fire across the U.S. and globally, access to accurate abortion information has never been more critical—especially online. That’s why reproductive health and rights organizations have turned to online platforms to share essential, sometimes life-saving, guidance and re...

I started blogging here precisely 25 years ago on 19 February 2000. I was 22 when I started and I am now 47. My silver jubilee! I felt when I started in February 2000 that I was coming to blogging late. I procrastinated about setting it up. People I knew were already doing it. interconnected.org was...

As a general rule plywood and two-by-fours are the structural underpinnings of nearly everything in the built environment no matter how posh, luxurious or expensive the surface trappings. In that same way at least one, but usually both, of the core technologies that define the web still run most of ...

Cycle path London, May 2024 Quote of the Day ”In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.” Woody Allen Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Vaughan Williams | The … Continue reading →

xAI shows off new chatbot that calls legacy media outlets "garbage."

Now, more than ever, it’s critical to own your data. Really own it. Like, on your hard drive and hosted on your website. Is taking control of your content less convenient? Yeah–of course. That’s how we got in this mess to begin with. It can be a downright pain in the ass. But it’s your pain in the...

Constantly being bombarded with nothing but political ads, divisive bickering, finger-pointing, extreme tribalism, and an overall outlook of a doomed and gloomy future, The Infinity Process decided that something must be done to push back this wave of misinformation, chaos, and fear-inducing news.

Manuel Moreale has a comment up on his blog that’s in response to someone else’s writing. This post of mine is in response to Manuel’s post. It’s somewhat unfortunate that Manuel hasn’t linked to that original newsletter or post or article or whatever it is. Because this could very well be a chain o...

Unite 5 for macOS takes your web experience to the next level, transforming websites into feature-rich Mac apps. Powered by a completely redesigned WebKit browser, Unite 5 offers a more immersive and customizable browsing experience. What sets Unite 5 apart? We’ve gone beyond just app conversion. Ou...

Working on this project is great but ten minutes into it and I already miss the resilience of the web. I miss how you have to really fuck things up to make a browser yell at you or implode. adactio.com/links/21720

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This post is part of RSS Club, rewarding those who still use RSS to read and/or share content. These posts are embargoed from my regular post feed and the socials for an arbitrary period of time. You can see all the RSS-only posts at AdrianRoselli.com/category/RSS. Tell your friends (to get…

Your personal touch matters when writing online, Jitter introduced Infinite Canvas, Anytype ships web publishing, and more in this week's issue of Creativerly.