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Link roundup, “mix of optimism & pessimism” edition

If cool URIs don't change, maybe they shouldn't be managed by landlords and rented on a year-to-year basis.

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A Sociable Web, by Natalie.

This is perhaps the greatest conundrum of our current technological era: the desperate need to connect with one another, because it is our only hope of survival; combined with the fact that nearly all the means of connection available to us are deeply—possibly irredeemably—fucked.

A peasant woodland, by Mandy Brown

You can use Web Components without the shadow DOM, by Harris.

My cynicism has been tempered by the discovery that there are still movements out there that remind me of the web’s original promise — efforts that focus on reclaiming independence and fostering real community.

It turns out I'm still excited about the web, by Ben Werdmuller

The Powerful Density of Hypertextual Writing, by Jason.


What I’m doing to prepare, by Willow. See also 10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won, by Daniel Hunter, via Willow.

Graham, Timothy & Andrejevic, Mark: A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election, via Baldur Bjarnason.


C/2023 A3 (紫金山Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from SF
A blue sky, after sunset but before darkness has completely fallen. A half a dozen stars are visible. In the center left, a comet is visible.