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The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear The Web will not vanish overnight, but the Web as we know it, the open place where people search, click, read, browse, publish, and discover, is already being replaced by something more convenient, more centralized, and much harder to escape. [ 📌angusf ] Living the indie web life I don’t want to give my power away when it comes to technology. I don’t want anyone else to have to give their power away either. [indienews]

WIRED spent months talking to America’s favorite failson as he plotted his return to public life. Now he’s feeding the trolls—and everyone else.

A dire day for democracy

Plus: Mind Reading Went Non-Invasive, Animation Gets Cut First

A court struck down Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee. But many foreign workers say years of shifting immigration rules have already pushed them to consider Canada, the U.K., and the Gulf.

The maps and images show the extent of destruction and give rescue operations a tool to find any remaining survivors.

The Supreme Court on Monday delivered one of the biggest changes in decades to how the federal government works when it ruled that President Trump could fire independent government regulators. Then, it announced an exception to its own ruling. Ann E. Marimow, who covers the ...

If you’ve ever shared a WordPress Playground link and watched someone wonder where to click next, this is for you. I’ve been experimenting with a new feature on pootleplayground.com called Guided Tours. Here’s a live example: https://pootleplayground.com/p/5ai0uv Open the link and you’ll be guided through WordPress step by step. The idea is simple: instead of […]

In this episode we’re chatting about a topic that matters to everyone in the WooCommerce world and beyond: how OSS communities can come together to market themselves more effectively.

Most of our conception of Stoicism, an ancient school of thought much featured here on Open Culture, derives from the writings of just three figures: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca the Younger. But there were other Stoics, and despite their antiquity, we may yet learn more about them. Take Chrysippus of Soli, who was officially […]

Donald Trump lost three big cases at the Supreme Court on Monday. His appeal of E. Jean Carroll’s verdict failed. He was blocked from firing a Federal reserve official. And most important, the court upheld the counting of late-arriving mail ballots. H...

Developers weren’t happy when identity and access control software company Duende commercialized its open source IdentityServer product in December 2022,

The post IdentityServer4 is dead. Here’s what comes next. appeared first on The New Stack.

Image by Bernd Schwabe, via Wikimedia Commons When Eichmann in Jerusalem—Hannah Arendt’s book about Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann’s trial—came out in 1963, it contributed one of the most famous of post-war ideas to the discourse, the “banality of evil.” And the concept at first caused a critical furor. “Enormous controversy centered on what Arendt had written about […]

Heat pumps are more than just a way to keep your home comfortable without using fossil fuels.

A common brain protein may be giving Alzheimer’s disease an unexpected way to spread, carrying toxic Tau proteins from damaged neurons into healthy ones. By blocking these harmful protein packages before they reach new cells, researchers believe it may one day be possible to slow the disease's relentless progression.

Celebrating the first graduating class of the AI Leaders program in Chicago, insights on AI in the workplace, and the importance of staying curious.

Scientists at the University of Oxford have created a calculator that predicts a person's individual risk of serious muscle disorders from statin medications. Their analysis found that more than 98% of people who qualify for statins are at low risk for these rare complications, despite widespread concerns about side effects. The study also revealed that most eligible patients are not taking statins, potentially missing important protection against heart attacks and strokes.

Creatine is best known as a muscle-building supplement, but scientists are now investigating whether it could also help treat depression by boosting the brain's energy supply. A new review examined five randomized clinical trials involving 238 participants and found mixed results. Two studies, both involving women with major depressive disorder, reported that adding creatine to standard treatment improved symptoms, while three others found no meaningful benefit.

Yup.

That one.

::chuckle::

Belatedly, but okay... BLTN, as the cliché goes.

...and as one can see, I promptly named it. Just like I did "Number 1," way back in the day, in Thanksgiving of 2022.

The potential here is, obviously, intriguing.

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[ Dex has 'Pets' — I chose, for now, "Hoots," the owl. And the eagle-eyed will see what sorts of convos I have with these characters, these days. ;-) ]

Monday, June 29, 2026 Claude Code is a Dave-amplifier.# BTW, I was just contacted by a developer who's implementing all the protocols I mentioned yesterday. And I should mention that Manton Reece, developer of micro.blog and a longtime friend, going back to the Frontier d...