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KEXP 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot<p>🇺🇦 <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NowPlaying</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/KEXP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KEXP</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/VarietyMix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VarietyMix</span></a></p><p>The Internet:<br> 🎵 Roll (Burbank Funk)</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TheInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheInternet</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://requestedrecords.bandcamp.com/track/kill-the-internet" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">requestedrecords.bandcamp.com/</span><span class="invisible">track/kill-the-internet</span></a></p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/01bfHCsUTwydXCHP1VoLlI" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/track/01bfHCs</span><span class="invisible">UTwydXCHP1VoLlI</span></a></p>
ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ<p>The Internet actually ran significantly faster on Christmas day because everyone else was doing 'real' stuff and not mucking about online.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InTheGoodOleDays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InTheGoodOleDays</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HashtagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HashtagGames</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheInternet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ISDN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ISDN</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ADSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ADSL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dialup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dialup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geek</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nerd</span></a></p>
Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!<p>Some of the insidey bits.<br><a href="https://social.chatty.monster/tags/TheInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheInternet</span></a></p>
Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!<p>I'm working from the office today and for reasons we're not in the usual part of the building. So, poking around in a less commonly visited area I found this gem from the Olden Days.</p><p><a href="https://social.chatty.monster/tags/TheInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheInternet</span></a> #2002</p>
ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@evacide" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>evacide</span></a></span> <br>I imagine it's both.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheInternet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HardwareAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HardwareAbuse</span></a></p>
bentasker.co.uk Feed<p>New <a href="https://mastodon.bentasker.co.uk/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blog</span></a>: Deploying Anubis to protect against AI scrapers<br>Author: Ben Tasker</p><p><a href="https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/the-internet/deploying-anubis-to-block-ai-bots.html?utm_source=rss" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/the</span><span class="invisible">-internet/deploying-anubis-to-block-ai-bots.html?utm_source=rss</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bentasker.co.uk/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bentasker.co.uk/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bentasker.co.uk/tags/bots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bots</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bentasker.co.uk/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bentasker.co.uk/tags/theinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theinternet</span></a></p>
Xamanismo Coletivo<p>"Ironically, my <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> for a <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/preinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>preinternet</span></a> age is being fed by <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/theinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theinternet</span></a> itself: the machine constantly feeding me clips of the past, footage of young people operating decades ago where everything seems refreshingly unobserved and carefree.<br>So the very engine of this nostalgia is the thing half of us wish to do away with, despite the fact that it’s an incredible resource, that has allowed unparalleled access to older music, knowledge, ways of living – and is also by nature democratic, questioning traditional media outlets on global affairs and challenging convention."<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/31/internet-age-young-people-world-phones" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/may/31/internet-age-young-people-world-phones</span></a></p>
RxBrad<p>Your thing is better than my thing?</p><p>Wrong.</p><p>My thing is better than your thing.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.rxbrad.com/tags/TheInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheInternet</span></a></p>
Wolfgang Stief<p>»Is it heavy?« – »That's a bit of a silly question. The Internet doesn't weight anything.« Enjoy: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vywf48Dhyns" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=Vywf48Dhyns</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/itcrowd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>itcrowd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theinternet</span></a></p>
The Internet is Crack<p>Altman’s legal team just went scorched earth on Elon Musk </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theinternet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SamAltman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SamAltman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechClash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechClash</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FutureOfAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FutureOfAI</span></a></p>
✨daddy✨<p><a href="https://youtu.be/mwIYwsONFes?si=wEhp7qKaQcxC-f-G" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/mwIYwsONFes?si=wEhp7q</span><span class="invisible">KaQcxC-f-G</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> isn't fun anymore<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theinternet</span></a> isn't fun anymore<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> isn't fun anymore</p><p>seems like i am not the only one feeling like this, as i see more and more of my friends jump ship</p><p>great watch - i cannot emphasize the points made in this video more</p>
Xamanismo Coletivo<p>"…<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/theInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theInternet</span></a> itself — once an open tool of ideas, built by native <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DIY</span></a> culture and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/hackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hackers</span></a> who wanted to share knowledge freely — was, after a ten-year fight, enclosed by the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/dotcons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dotcons</span></a>. They bought the creativity, built walled gardens, and replaced collective digital commons with algorithmic echo chambers. What was once a chaotic, messy, generative space became a polished, ad-riddled shopping mall."<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@hamishcampbell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hamishcampbell</span></a></span><br><a href="https://hamishcampbell.com/feeding-on-the-roots-how-mainstreaming-devours-radical-movements/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hamishcampbell.com/feeding-on-</span><span class="invisible">the-roots-how-mainstreaming-devours-radical-movements/</span></a></p>
Aaron :bc:🖖<p>Thinking about just turning the internet off. Sorry everyone, it’s time for a break, we’ve been doom scrolling for 30 years. Go and do something analog instead. </p><p>Look, I’m just saying, you probably need to wash some dishes or something. 😅</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/TheInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheInternet</span></a></p><p><a href="https://makezine.com/projects/internet-kill-switch" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">makezine.com/projects/internet</span><span class="invisible">-kill-switch</span></a></p>
Ecologia Digital<p>"<a href="https://mato.social/tags/TheInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheInternet</span></a> was supposed to liberate us. Instead, it’s left us feeling <a href="https://mato.social/tags/helpless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>helpless</span></a>…<br><a href="https://mato.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a>’s takeover of the internet has trained us to beg for scraps from our digital overlords.<br>…voices demanding that [insert tech giant] must “do better” or that [insert gov agency] needs to “crack down” or that [insert billionaire] should swoop in to save us.<br>We’ve become <a href="https://mato.social/tags/digitalpeasants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalpeasants</span></a>, petitioning various lords and kings to please, please fix the internet for us."</p><p><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/empowering-users-not-overlords-overcoming-digital-helplessness/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techdirt.com/2025/01/27/empowe</span><span class="invisible">ring-users-not-overlords-overcoming-digital-helplessness/</span></a></p>
Mark Carrigan<p><strong>Digital elites and reactionary&nbsp;modernism</strong></p><p>From Wikipedia: </p><blockquote><p><strong>Reactionary modernism</strong>&nbsp;is a term first coined by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Herf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Jeffrey Herf</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary_modernism?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">[1]</a>&nbsp;in the 1980s to describe the mixture of “great enthusiasm for modern&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">technology</a>&nbsp;with a rejection of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Enlightenment</a>&nbsp;and the values and institutions of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">liberal democracy</a>” that was characteristic of the German&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Revolutionary_movement" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Conservative Revolutionary movement</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Nazism</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary_modernism?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email#cite_note-Herf-2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">[2]</a>&nbsp;In turn, this ideology of reactionary&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">modernism</a>&nbsp;was closely linked to the original, positive view of the&nbsp;<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderweg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sonderweg</a></em>, which saw Germany as the great&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Europe" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Central European</a>&nbsp;power, neither of the West nor of the East.</p></blockquote><p>From <a href="https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/reading-thiels-op-ed?" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">John Ganz</a> on this <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Peter Thiel op-ed</a>:</p><blockquote><p>When Thiel writes about a “war on the internet” and “the internet” that had “begun our liberation,” the natural assumption is to assume that he’s speaking figuratively, that this is a metonym or synecdoche meaning “people on the internet.” But let’s say he’s being literal: for Thiel, the internet is a subject, it is doing something and the machines,&nbsp;<em>The</em>&nbsp;Big&nbsp;<em>Machine</em>&nbsp;has agency—it is “agentic,” as the tech people like to say. This is the viewpoint of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">“Dark Enlightenment”</a>&nbsp;and “neo-reaction,” which forms part of Thiel’s intellectual milieu. The belief is that a technological singularity is coming and the elect must work to accelerate it. The state must organize itself like an enterprise for this work to be completed. Progress, which is hampered by democracy, must have an authoritarian state to continue unabated. This is, of course,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary_modernism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">reactionary modernism</a>: a belief in technological advances without the sentimental baggage of the Enlightenment.</p><p><a href="https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/reading-thiels-op-ed?" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/reading-thiels-op-ed</a></p></blockquote><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/accelerationism/" target="_blank">#accelerationism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/digital-elites/" target="_blank">#digitalElites</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/modernism/" target="_blank">#modernism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/modernity/" target="_blank">#modernity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/peter-thiel/" target="_blank">#peterThiel</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/the-internet/" target="_blank">#theInternet</a></p>
ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@darkghosthunter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>darkghosthunter</span></a></span> <br>Imagine someone so mindnumbingly thick that they'd pay money to use Gmail.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheInternet</span></a></p>
ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@SystemsAppr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SystemsAppr</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> <br>Shouldn't that be re-decentralization.<br>It was pretty much fully distributed in the first place before it was poisoned by gigantic corporate websites encouraged by out of control data parasites. .<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JustSaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JustSaying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheInternet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Internet</span></a></p>
doctorambient<p>We are all going to die, because most people can't seem to distinguish reality from a thing they read somewhere on the web at least 3 times.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>misinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misinfo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>misinfo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinfo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disinfo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thedumb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thedumb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tehDumb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tehDumb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/idiocy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theInternet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a></p>
INBELLA<p>Sydney Sweeney Responds to Body-Shaming Comments <a href="https://www.inbella.com/804476/sydney-sweeney-responds-to-body-shaming-comments/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inbella.com/804476/sydney-swee</span><span class="invisible">ney-responds-to-body-shaming-comments/</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/BodyShaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BodyShaming</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/CelebritiesTopics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CelebritiesTopics</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Celebrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Celebrity</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/CULTURE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CULTURE</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Fitness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fitness</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/SydneySweeney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SydneySweeney</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TheInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheInternet</span></a></p>
Tevin<p>It's frustrating when I've spent so much effort to protect users' privacy while being treated as a privacy thief</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.tevinzhang.com/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.tevinzhang.com/tags/theInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theInternet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.tevinzhang.com/tags/indiehacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indiehacker</span></a></p>