PSA: One of @Dril's best jokes has been hiding in plain sight for years
Twitter executives finally met the average user
Read to the end for the final crypto update from my dad in Miami
Spam Botnets – Darknet Diaries
This episode tells the stories of some of the worlds biggest spamming botnets. We'll talk about the botnets Rustock, Waledac, and Cutwail. We'll discover who was behind them, what their objectives ...
The Age of Everything Culture Is Here
When anything on social media can become A Thing, trends take on an unnerving shape and velocity.
How Twitter plans to add its next 100 million users
Twitter’s product leaders have their work cut out for them.
The video essay boom
Hour-long YouTube videos are thriving in the TikTok era. Their popularity reflects our desire for more nuanced content online.
Dad takes down town's internet by mistake to get his kids offline
A French dad faces jail time and a hefty fine after using a signal jammer to prevent his kids from going online and taking the rest of a nearby town down with them.
Why you can’t rebuild Wikipedia with crypto
An interview with the author of Web3 Is Going Just Great
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Opinion | One Year After the Jan. 6 Attack, Parler’s C.E.O. Grapples with Big Tech and Trump
George Farmer doubles down on his efforts to revive a right-leaning social media company that was taken offline a year ago.
The governor of Missouri still doesn’t know how websites work
According to him looking at website source code is a crime
Web3 is Bullshit
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#178 I Am Not a Bot | Reply All
This week, Alex's favorite place on the Internet is in danger... thanks to a bunch of robot snipers.
What would a real Web3 look like? — Matt
Seemingly overnight, there’s been a whole new version of the Web invented, dubbed “web3.” I’ve seen a lot of people talk about it online ...
Bring back Web1 🕸
As someone who closely follows the ebbs and flows of the internet, I can’t help but find the sudden, overwhelming hype around “Web3,” essentially the blockchainification of the internet, to be something of a massive bubble.As anyone who has read a Gartner report can tell you, hype cycles tend to crest before they dissipate, and might bounce back after all that.But I think the reason why so many have become overexcited about the possibility of Web3 taking over the internet has much less to do wi…
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Podcast: Missouri Hasn't Really Learned Its Lesson [Ep.305]
We've got a crossposted episode for you this week: Mike recently joined The Cato Daily Podcast with Caleb O. Brown for a discussion about the "hacking" fiasco in Missouri and the state's treatment of the journalists who exposed its...
Can Data Die? Tracking the Lenna Image
You.com wants to remake the search engine
Tantalizingly close to a power user’s Google alternative.
The Scroll subscription service is an ingenious web technology hack
It’s kind of a hellacious cookie hack, but it works.
Twitter brings back UK SMS; Vodafone first, others to follows
We said earlier this month Twitter was just a few weeks away reinstating inbound SMS to UK mobile users - and now it's happening. By Robert Andrews
Twitter quietly deletes millions of accounts from the old text message days
Say goodbye to Twitter SMS notifications too.
Twitter disables tweeting via SMS after CEO gets hacked
Twitter says it’s making the change "to protect people’s accounts."
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“About to record "1000 Words" with @dami_lee ... the thumb drives have the pictures on them! “ - Paul Miller on Twitter (2016)
About to record "1000 Words" with @dami_lee ... the thumb drives have the pictures on them! pic.twitter.com/k2udetLRBY— Paul Miller (@futurepaul) August 5, 2016
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How to stop a hate raid
Twitch streamers are building tools to combat hate raids.