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This Week in the IndieWeb is a weekly digest of activities of the IndieWeb community. It contains recent and upcoming events, posts from IndieNews, and a summary of wiki edits, sent out Fridays at 3pm Pacific time.

The blog, projects, and assorted output of Tom MacWright

404 Media is a new independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.

Archived News: This is an archive of the old BleepingComputer news.

Defector is an employee-owned sports and culture website brought to you by the former staffers of Deadspin.

News and discussion on trans legislation and life. Click to read Erin In The Morning, by Erin Reed, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

We report stories of progress

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Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

The Mississippi Free Press is a nonprofit media outlet devoted to going beyond partisanship and publishing solutions journalism.

Breaking news, original reporting, and investigative journalism on money in politics from OpenSecrets.

An independent, national nonprofit organization that trains incarcerated writers to be journalists and publishes their stories.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Devoted to covering the US Supreme Court comprehensively, without bias according to the highest journalistic standards as a public service

A tech and online culture publication by Taylor Lorenz, featuring exclusive reporting, interviews, and insights about the online world. Click to read User Mag, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

The 19th is an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics and policy.

The Maine Monitor delivers fearless, citizen-supported, nonpartisan journalism that keeps Mainers informed.

A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system.

A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate what’s happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy. Issues 3x a week! Click to read The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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You may not know it, but … Genetic analysis reveals that house cats were never domesticated like dogs and horses. Humans invented the idea of robot uprisings to reassure ourselves that we are a worthy adversary for our machines, rather than merely their boring aunties. Fired pottery changed the world more than the internet will. In the future, computers and the natural environment will merge. Homo sapiens is merely a glorified combination of Homo erectus and a lot of symbolic-nomadic labor. Your gender has become a weaponized meme. I have some strange ideas, but by gum, I just might be on to something. It helps that every missive from The Hypothesis is grounded in science and data. The Hypothesis delivers a mix of science news, historical analysis, and evidence-based speculation. Plus, you can keep up with what I’m publishing elsewhere online. Newsletters will not come out on a regular schedule, and you'll never know when one might pop up in your inbox. I’m Annalee Newitz. I write science fiction and nonfiction. I’m the award-winning author of Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, the sci-fi novels The Future of Another Timeline and Autonomous, as well as several other books. I’m also a contributor to the New York Times and New Scientist, and a lapsed academic who got a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. Every two weeks, I co-host the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.

A newsletter and podcast about our sociotechnical world, and how to change it. Click to read Untangled with Charley Johnson, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.