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The Internet Doesn’t Have to Suck

Enshittification author Cory Doctorow says specific policy choices led to today’s broken web — and could lead us out.
Cory Doctorow’s newest book provides ideas for how to de-enshittify the world wide web that’s become our everyday life.
Cultural anxiety about sex is growing, and it’s especially affecting younger people. According to Scientific American, between 2009 and 2018, the proportion of adolescents reporting no sexual activity ...
Everyone should be clamoring for tools and features that block AI content. And for content companies, blocking AI slop is your new Job One.
In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay ...
Vice President Al Gore and President Bill Clinton promote the second national NetDay, designed to help connect every classroom and library in the U.S. to the internet by the year 2000, in the White ...
— -- Ever since Fritz Lang unveiled the robot Maria in his 1927 silent-screen sci-fi classic Metropolis, computers have been part of the fabric of the movies. The Internet, however, is a newer ...
A general view shows a telecommunications antenna amid a nationwide telecom outage in Kabul on Sept. 30, 2025. Afghanistan faced a second day without internet and mobile phone service on Sept. 30, ...