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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 15/01/2026

Today, @wikipedia.org turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future. There's no better example of the web we make together. www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...

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Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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cshirky.bsky.social @cshirky.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

My piece about AI in the classroom in The Chronicle of Higher Ed has been out for a couple of weeks, but it blew up today after Renic quoted it. Many commenters are ragging on AI-using students, but a lot of the problembis cognitive bias that makes AI use _feel_ like learning.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 03/02/2025

FEED for DC resistance to the Musk coup: #forkoff! With @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social and more

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cshirky.bsky.social @cshirky.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I'm talking about the threatened TikTok ban on TED Explains today at 1pm EST: www.youtube.com/live/fy1PbnW...

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press

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Richard Reisman @rreisman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A fuller explanation of the principle is here - it is a feed selection problem within a platform, not a problem of who is on the platform - and that is Bluesky's reason for being: www.techpolicy.press/protecting-f...

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Protecting Freedom of Thought by Deciding What Information You Consume | TechPolicy.Press

Cutting through the dilemma over content moderation requires rethinking the social component of online discourse, not just the technology, says Richard Reisman.

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cshirky.bsky.social @cshirky.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian academic and poet killed a year ago, has a posthumous book of poetry coming out on Tuesday. Pre-orders have it at #47 on Amazon. Not 47th most popular book of poetry, or even literature. 47th most popular book, full stop. www.amazon.com/If-Must-Die-...

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If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose

Amazon.com: If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose eBook : Alareer, Refaat, Aljamal, Yousef M.: Tienda Kindle

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

there's a whole class of journalists who people thought were on the left but have always been Like This. Fang, Taibbi, Cenk, Blumenthal, a whole bunch of Young Turks types, and, of course, Greenwald they didn't get awful. they've always been.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Shirky does say X “has become, in internet parlance, a Nazi bar.” My primary concern, though, is not so much the bar’s patrons as the bar’s *owner* www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

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Opinion | Bluesky Is Different From X. For Now. (Gift Article)

Users are looking for a more curated experience on a platform that is not constantly trying to get them to interact with brands.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

I’m ready to organize my fellow Substack publishers and demand answers from leadership. You want in? Email me: MKwrites4000@proton.me

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

A lot of people are responding to the Truth Social and Twitter lawsuits with "can't wait for discovery" and stuff that's almost celebratory. But as someone who worked at Gawker Media in 2016, I can assure you that being right doesn't mean your media outlet will be allowed to survive.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Remarkable couple of lines in this Semafor piece about the 2024 presidential election. www.semafor.com/article/11/1...

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Still remarkable that you might get a five-candidate ballot next year with no candidate under age 70. Biden (D): 81 Trump (R): 78 Kennedy (I): 70 West (I): 71 Manchin (No Labels): 77

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nme @theunknownnme.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

By voting 3rd party, you’re throwing away your vote. The electoral college prevents a successful 3rd party. If that’s ok with you go for it. But own the consequences.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Americans gunned down in public places? Can you even imagine such a bizarro world scenario?

I hope Admiral Kirby has an explanation ready if we end up with dead Americans in malls in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas and Ohio where Muslims could suddenly show up and gun everyone down they see.

Or Engage in Knife attacks like we have seen in Great Britain and Europe.

This is very possible and very plausible.

I don't think the American people are going to be happy to discover that these enemies that are killing people in Israel and Europe are also here inside our population.

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cshirky.bsky.social @cshirky.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

As a New Yorker, let me just say that the misdiagnosis of the problem in this article is appalling, a short anecdote: www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/o...

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 27/10/2023

"They absolutely want your extinction." Today, Elon Musk wildly increased his race-war rhetoric and promotion of white nationalism in a reply to a complaint by a white supremacist about the melting down of the Charlottesville Robert E Lee statue.

Elon Musk: "They absolutely want your extinction"

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