This piece by Dr Eleanor Janega on successor states and websites is so damn good it hurts. She compares the “fall” of Rome to what’s happening to the social network that’s now nothing more than a bunch of thugs in a trench coat: We are living through a tiny little change in a form of communication, but it can help...

Read on the website: Internet grew out of a non-commercial academic network with free resources for everyone. Can one get back to this dream of free Internet and build a lifestyle out of it?

From the destroyer of worlds to wholesome local fun, here is what happened this week