Stories from the January 2026 uprising in Minneapolis, MN.
Saved Links
There’s a compulsion as you spend hours and hours reading things in little screens, to save the things that seem important somehow. You want to squirrel them away and at the same time mark them as significant somehow. It’s like you’re earmarking them as a source in some great big essay about everything that is always just around the corner and will be reviewed and marked, and that will ultimately secure your passage into the afterlife, or not.
Here are the links I save in the delusion that I’ll come back to them someday. In a more orderly fashion, on the blogroll are links that I treasure in some way.
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The Minneapolis Uprising -
Shotguns for the Storytellers A poem for all victims of secret police.
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Why I left Why a long-time employee of Meta finally left, citing grim cultural shifts that are happening across the whole industry.
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bitchat Peer-to-peer Bluetooth messaing for when the internet goes out.
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East Germany balloon escape - Wikipedia In 1979 a couple successfully escaped the DDR in a hot air balloon after extensive preparation and even a dry run.
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I Was Kidnapped by Idiots An academic trip to Iraq unexpectedly turned into an immersive field study on the ways authoritarian regimes use brutality.
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The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon A deep dive into the Internet Archive's custom tech stack.
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House Arab A former fact-checker at the New Yorker reflects on his experience there after the October 8th attacks and subsequent genocide.
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The China Tech Canon—Asterisk How does the *paideía* of the Chinese tech elite differ from their counterparts in Silicon Valley?
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McMansion Hell If you love to hate the ugly houses that became ubiquitous before (and after) the bubble burst...
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Bringing Sexy Back Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.
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Etymology: Amber Coming from Arabic, muddling ambergris and amber as it displaced Germanic “smelting”
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Mx Tynehorne’s Cabinet of Hypertext Curiosities A link directory for the transhuman, the occult, the overgrown and strange underside of the internet.
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Neglected Books Reviews and essays about forgotten books not yet welcomed into the canon.
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radicalcartography All manner of funny maps collected and considered.
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Homeromanteion One of the more obscure methods of divination, found in the Greek Magical Papyri, is the Homeromanteion, where the diviner rolls a six-sided dice three times, and uses the result to pick a random verse from the works of Homer. Does it work? Only one way to find out!
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ORBIS The Stanford geospatial network model of the Roman world or, Google Maps for Roman legions.
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THEOI GREEK MYTHOLOGY - Exploring Mythology in Classical Literature & Art Welcome to the Theoi Project, a site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art. The aim of the project is to provide a comprehensive, free reference guide to the gods (theoi), spirits (daimones), fabulous creatures (theres) and heroes of ancient Greek mythology and religion.
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Bridges On The Tyne All Bridges On The River Tyne,including, Newcastle/Gateshead, North Tyne, South Tyne, ferries, tunnels, footbridges, defunct bridges, facts, etc.
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a portrait of Tenochtitlan a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire
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Pentagon Pizza Index - Real-Time OSINT Dashboard Track pizza shop activity around the Pentagon. The unconventional intelligence tool monitoring geopolitical tensions.
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Kinopio – Thinking Canvas Kinopio is a spatial note-taking tool for collecting and connecting your thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
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9 Classic Crime Stories That Have Just Entered the Public Domain in 2026 As of January 1st in this year 2025, many copyrighted works produced in the year 1926 have entered the public domain in the United States, which means they are totally free and legal for anyone to …
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Notes on Afghanistan In Fall 2025, I spent three weeks in Afghanistan travelling through Kabul, Bamiyan, Ghazni, Kandahar, Herat, and Mazar-i-Sharif. The following is a recounting of the interesting parts of my travels.
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Bookbinder A little open-source tool to help you print your work in a format that can be bound into homemade books.
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Mudita Store | Mudita Kompakt - a minimalist phone with E Ink® screen. Mudita Kompakt is a minimalist phone. Helps you stay focused, reduce screen time, support mindful use for digital detox.
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I Was Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn and All I Got Was 1.50 EUR A Christmas Eve journey. Deutsche Bahn. 35 kilometers.
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I sell onions on the internet A love letter to unenshittified businesses on the internet, which still exist from time to time.
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Is Holocaust Memory Over? – the Diasporist How the German political and media classes have hollowed out the lessons of history
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Hiby R3 Pro II A really expensive MP3 player.
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UNABLE TO ACHIEVE BROAD RECOGNITION IN MY LIFETIME, I LABOURED IN OBSCURITY UNTIL MY DEATH LAST YEAR, 2019 An art book that takes gallery plaque text and rewrites it in the first person for comic and ironic effect.
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A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET How has technology shaped and been shaped by sexuality? This 700+ page artist book gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools. UPDATE: Due to shipping delays, USA-orders will ship by early-Dec; international-orders are shipping now.
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Backing up Spotify We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
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Humanist Plumbing A short tale about exchanging money for goods and services with human beings, and the benefits of dealing with people instead of systems.
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In the Garden of the Feuilleton – the Diasporist The guardrails of high-mindedness in Germany's new political matrix.
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The Bomb on Time: To Gaza, by Way of Cologne – the Diasporist How weapons continue to be shipped to Israel through Cologne.
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Stickers Against Germany – the Diasporist The antideutsch youth papering cities in pro-Israel stickers
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The strange fate of Flight 2069 Bill Hagan felt his head push beyond the pillow and into the headboard. As he came to consciousness, he realised it was not a headboard but the reinforced plastic bulkhead of a plane.
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Calendar A simple printable calendar with the full year on a single page
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Twenty Ways to Minoritise a National Language We want our languages to exist but we don't want to learn them
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The Ephemera Society The Ephemera Society is dedicated to the collection, conservation, study and educational use of ephemera, the society’s fairs, journal, blogs and website provide opportunities for collectors and researchers to share their expertise and enthusiasm.
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GeaCron World History Atlas since 3000 BC A world atlas that you can use to step through time to watch the rise and fall of empires.
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The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
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An official atlas of North Korea A North Korean atlas that shows the world from the perspective of one of the most isolated countries on the planet.
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Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet — one peering connection at a time The telecom giant claims its exit from public internet exchanges will give customers "lower latencies." The evidence suggests they're in for a nightmare.
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how to use the internet again: a curriculum A five-unit crash course in wandering, breaking, and building online
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Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani The story of the man most likely to be the next mayor of New York City — and the promise and peril his ascent poses for the Democratic Party.
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The American Room Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube.
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Clay PCB Tutorial Feministhackerspaces making PCBs out in the fucking woods with clay and campfires baby.
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A Clock: An Online Remake of Christian Marclay’s The Clock Christian Marclay debuted his 24-hour film The Clock 15 years ago. The film is made up of thousands of clips from movies and TV sh
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Stations and transfers A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.
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Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way There is more than one way to dice an onion…
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Internet Phone Book An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025.
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QUISBN? French project to scan ISBNs and tell you who's getting paid when somebody buys this book.
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Star Struck Lauren Oyler’s meditations on Goodreads, anxiety, and gossip – Ann Manov
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Rosemary Hill · Des briques, des briques: On British and Irish Architecture The most important question to ask about a building is not how ‘advanced’ it is for its time or whether it can be...
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Behind F1's Velvet Curtain If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.
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Financial systems take a holiday Ever wondered about what happens when banks are closed or why some apps have operating hours? It's fascinating.
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Pankaj Mishra · The Shoah after Gaza Memories of Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and...
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How I Taught The Iliad to Chinese Teenagers Several years ago I had the chance to lead two seminars with a group of high-performing Chinese high school seniors. Each seminar had between 20-35 kids; each of these students was a graduating sen…
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He Polarized Readers by Writing About His Late Wife’s Affairs. Now He’s Ready to Move On. ‘Molly,’ Blake Butler’s memoir about his late wife, has ignited intense online debates around authorial responsibility, but as his book tour draws to a close, Butler has found himself exhausted. “I’m trying to both take care of myself and take care of the book. I want this to be the end,” he tells Vanity Fair.
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Why Is No One Talking about Muteness Envy? — Parapraxis A Retrospective on Barbara Johnson KATIE KADUE
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How to Replace Your CPAP In Only 666 Days American healthcare is broken. We know.
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Owen Hatherley · In Surrey Quays By the 1950s Scandinavian design principles dominated British architecture schools, and were taken to be the natural...
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The Unique History of Japanese Plastic Food Samples Tokyo Weekender went to Yamato Samples in Toshima city to find out the ins and outs of Japan’s fascinating food sample culture.
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From-To Compare the city you know with the city you don't. Broken link :(
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The Failed Saint: On George Orwell’s India | Los Angeles Review of Books Jason Christian visits George Orwell’s birthplace in India.
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Using SQL to find my best photo of a pelican according to Apple Photos According to the Apple Photos internal SQLite database, this is the most aesthetically pleasing photograph I have ever taken of a pelican...
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The 1944 CIA guide to sabotaging meetings — Authentic Comms Strategic Consultancy A handbook aiming to cause disruption from within during World War II has resurfaced after becoming declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). How to sabotage and disturb meetings specifically resonated as relevant now as it was c.80 years ago.
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Bread on Earth A collection of visual and text-based research on the past, present and future of grain and bread.
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Deborah Friedell · I behave like a fiend: Katherine Mansfield’s Lies A profile of Katherine Mansfield, the saucy minx.
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Fake Views - The Contrast Between Renderings and Reality - The Architectural Uprising A shining sun, playful children, overwhelming greenery and new neighborhoods with a richer wildlife than a Zoo. We have all seen them, the vision images that promise an idyll but result in a visual nightmare. Here‘s a few examples. Renderings are a visual representation of a future scene or product. These images are used as...
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Tom Scocca: Unraveling My Medical Mystery The strangest things happen to other people’s bodies. Then they began happening to my own.
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How Modi’s party took over one of India’s most prestigious private clubs The Delhi Gymkhana is a who’s who of the country’s old money elite — and they’re not happy
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How Camille Pissarro Went from Mediocrity to Magnificence He began as more of a tutor than a talent. But in his final decade he lent a keen eye-in-the-sky view to the Paris streets, rendering miracles of kinetic characterization.
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Corky Lee and the Work of Seeing | Ken Chen There is a symmetry between Corky Lee’s passing and the rise of Stop Anti-Asian Hate: the departure of Asian America’s greatest documentarian and its most visible recent efflorescence. Years earlier, the brief window of postwar Asian American radicalism seemed to have already swung shut. Today, our most notable figures are corporate CEOs and conservative politicians, the eponymous Asians rich and crazy, so the artists, revolutionaries, and workers preserved in Lee’s prints can feel as elusive as their author. No matter how distant an Asian American poor people’s movement may seem, his prints still vibrate with radical temporality and potential.
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Circling the Planet, Looking for God Set on the International Space Station, Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital” reveals how small and how large our world really is.
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John F. Kennedy’s Last Movie: From Russia with Love John F. Kennedy’s voracious appetite for books was borne of long hospital stays in his youth (Colitis, Addison’s). By 1963, he’d been read the Last Rites many times (Catholic, Irish)...
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How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time More than 60 percent of French speakers now live in Africa. Despite growing resentment at France, Africans are contributing to the evolution and spread of the French language.
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Let’s Take a Journey Through the Secret Queer History of Studio Ghibli Films There’s something about the animation powerhouse specifically that resonates with queer people, despite there being little obvious representation to speak of across the studio’s 40-year…
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on misunderstanding critical theory – The Homebound Symphony -
How to crash a Chanel party No invite? No problem.
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Local Minima Local Minima is a design studio based in New York City, founded by Brian Clifton. The functional objects from Local Minima are not quite design and not quite art, but somewhere in between.
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Doctor does actually mean someone with a PhD, sorry You know those little jokes that centre around a person with a PhD being on a plane, and someone asks for a doctor, and they say they aren’t that kind of doctor but the emergency involves their fie…
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The camel, the rope, and the needle's eye Many popular beliefs about ancient Greece and Rome are misconceptions. This blog digs into the evidence and looks for the reality behind the myth.
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It is as if you were making love Flick the switch.
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Dioramas Weird internet art.
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garden garden garden — library for the web gardengardengarden (like www) is a curated library and a collection of essays that explore the current state of networked technologies, and aims to inspire a new perspective on reimagining a softer digital future that is rooted in intention and expression.
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My website as a home One of myriad appeals to make personal websites that feel like something.
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Making God · EmilyGorcenski.com The millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism.
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Orkney: St Magnus’ Cathedral, Kirkwall Founded in 1137, this magnificent building preserves the bones of a saint who was originally a Norse earl of Orkney
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Reassessing Georg Lukacs means expurgating Bolshevik themes and some long-outdated Marxist concepts. That's asking a lot. Mitchell Cohen explores the problematic afterlife of a foundational text of Western Marxism, .“History and Class Consciousness” by Georg Lukács.
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creative retail experiences, and warmth in tokyo A long while ago I saw somewhere online that tokyo has a 3-storey art supply store. It became a bucket list item for me. We have art supply stores in singapore, but we would be lucky to find something that is a thousand square feet. It felt like a dream to me, all those months...
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The Phrontistery: Obscure Words English obscure words and etymology resources: online dictionary of weird and unusual words, word lists, technical vocabulary aids, lipograms, and word related essays
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Hallucinating with art models Monica Dinculescu messes around with AI models to do an art.
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fisking - Wiktionary Not a good sounding word, but a nice idea.
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Jonah Goodman · A National Evil At the turn of the 20th century, the Swiss were plagued by strange, interlinked medical conditions, which existed...
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Survivors of Concert Violence Speak Out | Pitchfork Insane that this is a whole category.
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How Can Determinists Believe in Free Will? | The New Yorker -
Seeing like a Bank The only writer in the world who can make me interest in operational finance. Sorry Graebner.
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Meet the people fighting to keep a language alive online The story of Urdu on the internet.