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The first kind of application you could try after setting up Reticulum, or with it, is messaging. I think Reticulum protocol designer Mark Qvist knew that without a practical example of the protocol’s use, people might not use it. Messaging seems obvious. LXMF (Lightweight Extensible Message Format) is a universal messaging protocol built...

A bone chapel promised to teach me about mortality. It took a life-threatening illness for me to learn.

Petunia II #precisionism #okeeffe

A traffic stop in Dutchess County turned into a police pursuit that ended with the discovery of more than 12 pounds of suspected fentanyl inside a vehicle. Continue reading…

A new report published by the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) warns that poorly targeted VPN regulation can weaken the security infrastructure everyone depends on. The group, whose members include VPN providers, points to piracy blocking orders against VPNs in France, while U.S. lawmakers also consider similar blocking requirements. The report is released on Global Encryption Day.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Israelis head to the polls next week. On the ballot is the future of a country that has become isolated on the world stage, because of both its war in Gaza and a growing outcry over settler violence in the West Bank. David M. Halbfinger, the Jerusalem bureau chief for The Ne...

Goldmund’s $240,000 Mimesis Statement is an exercise in extreme Swiss sound engineering—and only one part of a $1.5 million audio setup.

Everything feels out of whack in the United States.

We’re unprepared. In high school, the quarterback isn’t allowed to call the plays, the actor isn’t allowed to write the lines and the math whiz isn’t allowed to choose what to prove. We all grew up in the age of compliance (and indoctrination). The long tail of the internet and the astonishing leverage of AI […]

Sir Christopher Lee and Edgar Allan Poe went way back. Or at least they went as far back as 1969, the year of The Oblong Box, a loose and lurid film adaptation of the eponymous story starring Lee and the also Poe-associated Vincent Price. Lee plays the doctor to whom a gang of grave-robbers delivers […]

Latin is a language As dead as dead can be;  It killed the Romans long ago,  And now it’s killing me. That famed ditty isn’t likely to resonate with many modern school children, but interest in ancient Rome remains fairly robust.  We’ve come to accept that those stately ruins were once covered in graffiti. We […]

Any reader of Victorian literature will wonder how much a ha’penny was actually worth in those days. For a little more than a year at the very end of that period, it could buy you a cup of coffee, cocoa, milk, tea, or “fluid beef” — which would pour out of a lamppost on the […]

Two of the books that most shaped American culture both happened to bear the nickname “The Big Book.” While the second of these, the A.A. Manual, published in 1939, changed the country with 12-Step recovery groups, the first of these, the Sears Catalog, transformed America with mass consumption, offering customers in every part of the […]

Cast your mind, if you will, back to the year 2020. It now feels like a different time, what with the spreading COVID-19 pandemic and the heated sociopolitical battles being waged online, and indeed in the (socially distanced) streets. That spring, we featured here on Open Culture an amusing retro-technological diversion called Hyperland. First broadcast on BBC2, […]

Smack in the middle of Pink Floyd’s classic Dark Side of the Moon sits a song many listeners may hear as an extended bridge between the two true centerpieces, “Time” and “Money.” But I’ve always thought of “The Great Gig in the Sky” as the album’s true center, a swirling, swinging, soulful prog-rock masterpiece, carried to […]

In the Halloween season, one American writer comes to mind more often than any other: Edgar Allan Poe. That owes in large part to his famously macabre tales like “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Masque of the Red Death,” written though they may have been with barely concealed contempt for their […]

Otto Dix, Head Study III, 1919 #printsanddrawings #artsmia

From her own heartfelt words about Dolly to her performance of one of the legend’s signature songs, Ella Langley made her admiration clear at the Nashville tribute. Continue reading…

A new report published by the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) warns that poorly targeted VPN regulation can weaken the security infrastructure everyone depends on. The group, whose members include VPN providers, points to piracy blocking orders against VPNs in France, while U.S. lawmakers also consider similar blocking requirements. The report is released on Global Encryption Day.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Reba looked back on the first time she met Dolly in 1977 before taking the stage to honor her longtime friend with “He’s Alive.” Continue reading…