California: Tell the Governor to Stand Up for Net Neutrality, Affordability, and Public Safety
The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with the state of California that would make the state abandon its gold standard…
Tech and Internet
The Case for Ro Khanna and AOC ’28
We can’t depend on the same Democratic establishment that served up weak candidates in 2000, 2004, 2016 and 2024.
The post The Case for Ro Khanna…
The Danger Isn’t That AI Is Too Smart — It’s That It’s Stupid
Recent reports of AI systems “breaking loose” don’t suggest superintelligence. They demonstrate that AI is not intelligent enough to follow basic instructions.
The post The Danger…
An Update on Wayback Machine Access
We’ve heard you: “Fix the Wayback Machine!” Here’s what’s going on. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has been hit by waves of high-volume automated traffic,…
Accused Impostor in Private Tracker Lawsuit Driven by Revenge, Defense Says
The person who sued PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, HDBits, and three other private trackers has voluntarily dropped the case, but it’s not over yet. Through their attorneys,…
Pluralistic: Everybody pees (15 Sep 2026)
Today’s links Everybody pees: Even Jeff Bezos. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Zune won’t play Microsoft files; Papercraft 1:1 Mustang; Third…
PeerTube 8.3 is out!
This latest version continues to improve the user experience, introducing features that make platform moderation much easier.
Moderation features
These features were developed thanks to financial support…
Tech CEOs’ Doomsaying Is a Distraction from Real, Existing Harms of AI
The binary between AI apocalypse and AI redemption asks us to ignore data centers and AI war machines — all as tech executives get incredibly…
The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke
Here’s a riddle: Why did a Goshen Police Department officer search 6,474 automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks, representing data from 82,413 cameras, on May…
Rightsholders Can’t Use OpenAI and Anthropic to Dismantle Meta’s Seeding Defense
Meta previously argued that uploading pirated books to other BitTorrent users was an unavoidable side effect of downloading them, and therefore fair use. Rightsholders suing…