Bits

“When users complain about their app being banned, a lot of them are also decrying the circumstances that make virality their best shot at economic security.” #tiktok https://archive.ph/CKA5a

a real-time map of passenger #publictransit #trains in #northamerica https://trains.fyi/

a speculative #philosophy of computation https://research.antikythera.org/

Sound & Music

“a slick social climber, three good-time Charlies, and a genius https://www.theringer.com/2025/01/22/music/garth-hudson-the-band-obituary

Politics & Economics

“Movement organizations could fail to provide any real relief for those whose lives are most endangered and leave newly scared and angry people to the most passive and ineffective forms of expressing their opinions.” #politics #economics #mutualaid https://lib.edist.ro/library/gus-breslauer-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-liberalism

illionaires are on a mission to make the stories of science fiction a reality: space colonization, human/machine bio organisms, and living forever in a state of unhindered bliss. To most of us, this version of a far future utopia comes off as “billionaire boys and their toys” but critics say such a dismissive attitude is naïve. #technology #utopia #economics #politcs #podcast https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16122923-techno-utopia-billionaires-wet-dream