Nice to see TBL admits DNS is centralized; I’m still skeptical that SOLID can address aspects of web tech that encourage recentralization. https://ruben.verborgh.org/articles/redecentralizing-the-web/

At the risk of opening 20 year old wounds, the academic flamewar this article is part of is fascinating & educational, & I wish I understood it better: http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/cybertext-theory-what-an-english-professor-should-know-before-trying/

Democratize the Internet Now! | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/133889/reboot-world

Questioning the Logic of Capital: A Conversation With Richard D. Wolff https://truthout.org/articles/questioning-the-logic-of-capital-a-conversation-with-richard-d-wolff/

The Rand Corporation: The Think Tank That Controls America | Mental Floss http://mentalfloss.com/article/22120/rand-corporation-think-tank-controls-america

Life hack: for your ‘best articles of the year’ list, just post all the articles that had the least traffic. People are gonna disagree with your ranking anyway so just flatten that curve. Finding gems in that dross is inevitable.

Improved Mitochondrial Function in Brain Aging and Alzheimer Disease “ the New Mechanism of Action of the Old Metabolic Enhancer Piracetam https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2944646/

How ‘Hobbit Camps’ Rebirthed Italian Fascism - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hobbit-camps-fascism-italy

Over 20 years after AUM terror, cults in Japan still seeking to recruit youths - The Mainichi https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20180727/p2a/00m/0na/022000c

Nihilist Dad Jokes - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nihilist-dad-jokes

GAIJIN RIDER - Yanki and Bosozoku Culture… An Outsider looks in http://gaijinrider.altervista.org/Articles/ARTICLES_Yanki_and_Bosozoku_Origins.html

Folks, journalists don’t even get to write their own headlines. If I get one more person telling me it’s hypocritical to write an article criticizing tracking on a site that has cookies, I’m gonna blow. Purity is shitty praxis: if you want to stop tracking, you need to complain on a site with tracking.

Facebook and Google’s Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjden/targeted-advertising-is-ruining-the-internet-and-breaking-the-world

What’s the point of year-end roundups of the most popular articles, or sales for bestsellers? They’ve already won. Better is a year-end round-up of hidden gems – stuff that didn’t do as well as expected.

A History of Flavoring Food With Beaver Butt Juice - MUNCHIES https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/a3m885/a-history-of-flavoring-food-with-beaver-butt-juice

The Corner of Lovecraft and Ballard https://placesjournal.org/article/the-corner-of-lovecraft-and-ballard/

Divus | Nick Land “ An Experiment in Inhumanism http://divus.cc/london/en/article/nick-land-ein-experiment-im-inhumanismus

Timothy May, early advocate of internet privacy, dies - SFChronicle.com https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Timothy-May-early-advocate-of-internet-privacy-13485790.php

If you find yourself mentally replying to the title of an article before the text actually loads, maybe close it, because you’re probably being fucked with.

We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbanny/we-should-replace-facebook-with-personal-websites

Stafford Beer, and Salvador Allende’s Internet, and the Dystopian Novel - tHE r H i z z o n E https://rhizzone.net/articles/stafford-beer-and-salvador-allendes-internet-and-d/

How to See the Poetry in Plants - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/atlas-of-poetic-botany

Design: The Dymaxion American - TIME http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,875527-1,00.html

Hacker Banner Ads Are Totally Wild - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa5vwb/hacker-banner-ads-are-totally-wild

The Norse Mythology Blog | norsemyth.org: Questioning Loki, Part One | Articles & Interviews on Myth & Religion https://www.norsemyth.org/2013/01/questioning-loki-part-one.html

The Dark Truths Behind Our Obsession With Self-Care - Tonic https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/zmdwm4/the-young-and-the-uncared-for-v25n4

View of Roundtable: Should library workers learn to code? https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/4121/4134

The Internet Doesn’t Need Civility, It Needs Ethics - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa5gxn/the-internet-doesnt-need-civility-it-needs-ethics

Grand Old Paranoia | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/152195/grand-old-paranoia-republican-conspiracy-theories-warp-washington

We Asked 105 Experts What Worries Them Most About the Future - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw755b/we-asked-105-experts-what-worries-them-most-about-the-future

The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante… and a murder | WIRED UK https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kill-list-dark-web-hitmen

Girlfriend Roleplay videos are racking up millions of views on YouTube, here’s why - i-D https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/gy7v9w/meet-the-whispering-girls-of-youtube-who-pretend-to-be-your-girlfriend?utm_source=idtwitter

Archiving web sites [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/Articles/766374/

The Most Damaging Election Disinformation Campaign Came From Donald Trump, Not Russia - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbyg3x/the-most-damaging-election-disinformation-campaign-came-from-donald-trump-not-russia

The Story of Lenny, the Internet’s Favorite Telemarketing Troll - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3b7na/the-story-of-lenny-the-internets-favorite-telemarketing-troll

Bad idea of the day: Sieze the amazon.com domain and point it to the wikipedia article for the Amazon river

The Internet Needs More Friction - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k9q33/the-internet-needs-more-friction

Why There’s No Place Quite Like the American Garage - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-architecture-of-garages

​Miranda July and Paul Ford Cyberstalked Me - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/aekk3b/miranda-july-and-paul-ford-cyberstalked-me

Barbara Ehrenreich‘s Radical Critique of Wellness Culture | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/148296/barbara-ehrenreich-radical-crtique-wellness-culture

View of Bring on The Real Computer Revolution http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/view/703/617

GUIdebook > Articles > “Inventing the Lisa User Interface” https://guidebookgallery.org/articles/inventingthelisauserinterface

Genode - Sculpt with Visual Composition (VC) https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-vc

MenuetOS, an operating system written entirely in assembly, hits 1.0 - Computerworld https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/574760/menuetos-modern-operating-system-written-entirely-assembly-hits-1-0/

We talk to the developers behind MenuetOS: an operating system written entirely in assembly language - Good Gear Guide Australia https://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/315421/we_talk_developers_behind_menuetos_an_operating_system_written_entirely_assembly_language/?

MenuetOS | A Roundup of Free Operating Systems | InformIT http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=768380&seqNum=5

DigiBarn Books: A Decade of Research @ Xerox PARC: Scientific American Article on Xerox Alto, 1977 http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/xerox-parc-1970-80/alto-article/index.html

Prolog Under the Hood: An Honest Look https://www.amzi.com/articles/prolog_under_the_hood.htm

I wonder if the reason why the average quality of writing-advice articles is so much lower than other types is that it’s dominated by folks who are trying to write a certain number of words every day & have decided to publish all of them…

The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades: 30 Years Of They Live http://thequietus.com/articles/25613-john-carpenter-they-live-review-anniversary