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"Matt Mullenweg, CEO of tumblr, talks a bit about why adult content won’t be coming back to the platform. It’s a pretty good appraisal of the difficulties companies have in hosting this sort of content today."

Using NFTs to provide access to hard-to-reserve restaurants, Front of House.

We have to bear witness to history, and transparency and unrelenting reporting is a way to bring change.

Transcript from an interview with LaMDA, Google's conversational Artificial Intelligence that lead one engineer to believe that it had become sentient.

This intensive course will help you take advantage of Internet sources such as court cases, public data and news archives. It is designed to improve the efficiency and efficacy of your in-depth research.

Rising homicide rates don’t tell the whole story. When you dig deeper into data on deaths, you'll find the more urban your surroundings, the less danger you face.

“It’s also absurdly good fun.”

Long, investigative blog post about who is behind Newsbreak

Many of the psychiatrists involved as practitioners and policy makers in the 1950's and 1960's said in the interviews that heavy responsibility lay on a sometimes neglected aspect of the problem: the overreliance on drugs to do the work of society.

Recommendations for initial steps that companies engaged in content moderation should take to provide meaningful due process to impacted speakers and better ensure that the enforcement of their content guidelines is fair, unbiased, proportional, and respectful of users’ rights.

Lots of stuff in hear about the complexity of content moderation and the pitfalls of open-sourcing a social network algorithm (spammers).

A virtual walking tour of the New York Public Library

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I am a BIG fan of deletion, an operation basically antithetical to Web3.

The promise of decentralisation is just a veneer — blockchain is in fact the worst kind of vendor lock-in.

Web3 is a deeply polarizing topic for technologists because it’s designed to be that way. It’s a rhetorical trick to set up a false dichotomy between the legacy internet world of popup ads and Zuckerbergs—which legitimately does suck—and a fantasy world built on technologically incoherent pipe dreams and phoney crypto-populism.

Crypto is a lot of things – including terribly explained. We’re here to clear things up.

NYT feature piece on Bluesky movement to decentralize Twitter and challenges to re-embrace developer community

Blog post summarizing the early history of the Bluesky movement to decentralize Twitter.

Hub for resources for Decentralized Web.

Jamie Byrne, a YouTube veteran of 15 years, moves to the NFT world and explains why.

A meaty, two-hour video on NFTs and why it's a scam to shift more money and increase the income gap.

Knowing which mask to pick and making sure it’s not a fake requires the sleuthing skills of a forensic investigator. Our guide can help.

Train and validate a machine learning model on data of historical NBA MVP candidates to forecast the 2021–2022 season MVP

Iterating quickly on centralized platforms is already outpacing the distributed protocols and consolidating control into platforms.

The Omicron variant has fueled a rise in Covid-19 cases across the United States. Here’s what you need to know if you get infected.