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Open science and commoning beyond licensing: Deteriorating digital commons in the absence of collective governance

This post is an adapted/expanded version of an abstract that I have submitted for a track on Open, collaborative and participatory science: rethinking knowledge legitimacy,...

Lessons from a Midlife Saturn Transit Through Pisces

According to the astrologers of the internet, Saturn – that stern planet whose job it is to teach us hard lessons – is leaving my sun sign this week, having been camped out here...

Links of the day

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Selfie video: a new, simple, and...

molly reviews good things to eat, as suggested by rufus

That's the title of a book I found on Project Gutenberg today: Good Things to Eat, As Suggested by Rufus - by Rufus Estes The title amused me, so I downloaded it. And the title...

A new bottom-up political system to fix disenfranchisement

A couple years ago, my bestie and I wrote a short book for NanoWrimo (We took 2 months and didn't reach the desired word count but we DID finish the story!). On one of my...

Three Zines for Zinetausch #10: Creative Coding in 3 Steps

Stephan Max · 2mo

I did it! Yesterday I finished my three zines—well, six, because three are Jenni’s return-of-investment—zines.cool’s Zinetausch #10—mere hours before our flight to Cape Town. I...

How to Read Someone’s Character Without Testing Them

Cafe Bedouin · 2mo

The Problem with Tests In A Bronx Tale, Sonny tells young Calogero about the “door test” – watching whether a girl unlocks your door after you let her in the car. Sonny says if...

GitGen column graph

Cybrkyd · 2mo

Here is a pretty graph. The way my Git commits across my repositories currently stand, the graph sort-of looks like it’s giving two middle-fingers to the GitHub-style version I...

The Weapons of World War IV

foofaraw · 2mo

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones!”—Albert EinsteinThose goddamn aliens ruined everything. We...

1994: Publishing comes to the Web — and design matters

Cybercultural · 2mo

Netscape's browser project was codenamed Mozilla during 1994; via Macintosh Garden. If web design is not yet a profession in 1993 because of the technical limitations of HTML...

Matrix ain't it chief

Xe Iaso · 2mo

Hey all, in light of Discord deciding that assuming everyone is a teenager until proven otherwise, I've seen many people advocate for the use of Matrix instead. I don't have the...

Empezando un nuevo cuaderno

Hoy comencé mi nuevo commonplace book. Para hacer este nuevo cuaderno tuve que inspeccionar el anterior, ver que mejoras podía hacer y cuantas páginas en realidad necesité....

A web application to rate and celebrate the best signs for the 25 de Abril parades

fredrocha.net · 2mo

There are amazing and very creative signs people design for the annual commemorations of the 25th of April, in Portugal. I embarked on building a web application that would not...

Vila-Matas.Más que novelista, ser novela.

por ANTONIO LUCAS 09/04/2017 1 En primera instancia, todo es presuntamente normal. Saluda con la mano tímida, con la carne blanda, con los ojos fijos. Nadie garantiza, sin...

Why I Don't Think AI is the Devil

I’m a technology enthusiast, not a business analyst, so I’m not the right person to predict what all the money pouring into AI is going to do to the economy. I consider myself...

Weeknotes #363 — Aquaplaning

Andrew Doran · 2mo

February already. Can you believe it1? Although the month has changed, the weather has not, and it feels like an endurance test that is starting to get to me. It seems that it...

🧸 Chicago Cubs spring training preview: Players feel primed to contend after banner offseason

AthleticThe last thing I need right now is hope in the Cubs chances…

Software I Use

James' Corner · 2mo

Below are some of the software and services I like and consistently use (as of Feb 2026): ✍️ Productivity Notes - Obsidian - I've experimented with Notion, but prefer the...

The weekend that never happened

Brian drifted in slow circles, his gold scales catching the morning light that filtered through the living-room blinds. Outside, commuters hurried past the window. Inside, the...

Daily Dex - Jigglypuff and Dragapult

quailblog · 2mo

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Mon 02/09/2026 - Jigglypuff In honor of Lady Gaga at the super bowl lmfao I get that the pokemon company has...

3 WW2 posters

sonechka · 2mo

I talked about the folklore-inspired budenovka hat of the red army in my post about Viktor Vasnetsov.

Virginia Woolf on Self-Knowledge and the Limits of Empathy

“We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others… There is a virgin forest in each.” It is both a terror and a mercy that we know ourselves only incompletely and...

Using network shares in Windows

This is a bit of an unusual post, as I generally don’t write much about my work life stuff since it’s rather boring, and this isn’t really a “professional” blog. However, this...

AI Game Worlds and Humane Games

I subscribe to many sites in my feed reader. Some sites tend to use descriptive headlines, which help me decide whether to open the feed item, swipe it away, or adjust my feed...

Emacs: institution-calendar package (University of Oxford/Cambridge, etc.)

Protesilaos · 2mo

This is about a new package of mine: institution-calendar. It is not going to be available on GNU ELPA. Users will have to install it from source (code for this is further...

album: girls by princess nokia

ava's blog · 2mo

As I said before, I’m a lazy listener. I don’t listen to a lot of music; I often just like one song of an artist, and I tend to listen to single songs and playlists instead of...

The Most Important Questions Are the Ones You're Avoiding

BEEW · 2mo

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. –W. Edwards Deming We're taught early that progress comes from having good answers. That smart people...

Album#32 - 头7

Taxodium · 2mo

Album#32 头7 图1 《头7》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称:头7 歌手:DJ小女孩 年份:2025-04-04 风格:电子、Electro house 时长:53:54 亚洲恐怖+电子音乐。制作周期12天, 演绎一场模拟死亡,她回来了,但是她死了;生前组成她的执念走马灯,都被变成死后的残响。在这一刻你的耳机就是为她祭奠的花圈。 在 Hopico...

Things I Learned: Hedgehogs, Erinaceiane

I just published a NLJ article in which I made a reference to the murderous camera in Sonic Adventure for Sega Dreamcast. I described the camera as homicidal in my draft. But...

La fine di Stranger Things

Dunque, premessa cruciale: a me Stranger Things ha sempre divertito senza farmi impazzire. Tuttavia, un aspetto che tendiamo molto spesso a sottovalutare...

Overscan: Stories from Beyond the Screen's Edge

Overscan is a book that I read last year, but didn’t review, even though it is quite important to me in a few ways. First, it’s a book written by fediverse creators, even...

Hammock Coast Birding Festival

ODonnellWeb · 2mo

Last fall we thought it would be a great idea to get out of the VA winter for a few days at the Hammock Coast Birding Festival south of Myrtle Beach. Average highs for the first...

PAVIA – COFFEE, CAKE, COBBLES AND CHURCHES

retiredmartin · 2mo

February 2026. Pavia. I was going to skip the architecture of Pavia and go straight back to Italian real ale, but Lana on her Retirement Chapter blog just got a great post out...

Mini-Heap

Daily Nous · 2mo

New links… “The current state of education positively requires external pressure on the universities, demonstrating to them a model of inquiry that they have themselves patently...

Do not apologize for replying late to my email

Ploum.net · 2mo

Do not apologize for replying late to my email You don’t need to apologize for taking hours, days, or years to reply to one of my emails. If we are not close collaborators, and...

Out and about on the web

This is a list of a few of the cool links I found around the web. A bunch of them I already forgot where I found (ADHD), but whenever possible I reference the source. I found a...

Contentment is a spectrum, too

annie's blog · 2mo

I am quite content to be alone except on a mild evening at twilight. During the quick hours of the day I am busy. Busy with things I enjoy doing, for the most part. Or busy with...

Any color will do

Chris Glass · 2mo

Got out of the house which is a feat considering side streets are still a mess of snow and the bitter cold remains. Always perk up by these painted cottages of Moline Court....

It

Druchan · 2mo

I. "I've taken down your complaint, Mr. Henson, and I'll dispatch a new team immediately to have a look and fix the cameras. Really sorry for the inconvenience, Mr. Henson." The...

X: In What Distress Candide, Cunégonde, and the Old Woman Arrived at Cadiz; and of Their Embarkation

lettrss.com · 2mo

“Who was it that robbed me of my money and jewels?” said Cunégonde, all bathed in tears. “How shall we live? What shall we do? Where find Inquisitors or Jews who will give me...

OpenClaw

Kyle Bavis · 2mo

I’ve started experimenting with OpenClaw a couple of times, but I keep running up against the fact that I’m not willing to give it keys to anything important. If the risk...

Intersecting Interests

A screenshot of the front page of this website from 2001 This post is part of February’s IndieWeb Carnival on the theme of “Intersecting Interests” being hosted by Zachary Kai:...

42-i love to eat snot

check out this post on the grizzly gazette. and GIVE US SNOT, NOT SLOP!!!

Complacency

noahie.xyz · 2mo

I have a backup of my blog and link log on GitHub now if that's relevant to anyone. There's this constant fear of complacency. If I'm not seeking, finding faults in things,...

Discord Just Showed Why We Need to Bring Back Forums.

This week Discord announced that to continue to have full access to their platform, all users will be required to verify their ages using either a face scan or a photo of their...

Brainstorming source code editing for web applications

Last year, I worked on a bookmarklet for editing pages on my website. When clicked, the bookmarklet would open the page in GitHub that corresponded with the page I was viewing....

Package-Inferred Systems are Dangerous

Read on the website: Package-inferred systems follow a useful one-file-per-package convention structure. But package-inferred systems themselves are harmful and should not be...

Those thinking AI will reduce their workloads might be mistaken

Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye, writing for Harvard Business Review: In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently...
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