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Is Social Media Destroying Democracy–Or Giving It to Us Good and Hard?

https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/is-social-media-destroying-democracyor

4•throw0101c•3h ago

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throw0101c•3h ago

The latter part of the title is a reference to H.L. Mencken's saying: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

* https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/51436-democracy-is-the-theo...

* https://archive.org/details/littlebookcmajor00mencrich/mode/...

Choosing Friction

https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10-11/friction

1•FromTheArchives•45s ago•0 comments

Health plan enrollment period is set to be horrifying for everyone this year

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/health-care-costs-are-soaring-for-americans-and-2026-is-lo...

2•bell-cot•2m ago•0 comments

Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2B off skin market value

https://www.eurogamer.net/counter-strike-2-update-wipes-nearly-2-billion-off-skin-market-value-by...

1•MetaMalone•3m ago•0 comments

How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly

https://medium.com/@jonas.eschenburg/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-started-loving-the-assembly-4fd00...

1•indyjo•3m ago•1 comments

First Claude Skill

https://build.ms/2025/10/17/your-first-claude-skill/

1•freediver•3m ago•0 comments

The death of an argument – Why analogies are best used sparingly

https://vhbelvadi.com/analogies-argument

1•freediver•5m ago•0 comments

Public figures urge AI 'superintelligence' ban

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/800-petition-signatures-apple-steve-wozniak-and-virgin-richard-br...

1•ChrisArchitect•5m ago•2 comments

Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/how-ants-can-kick-start-fermentation-to-make-yogurt/

1•PaulHoule•6m ago•0 comments

Terahertz Tech Sets Stage for "Wireless Wired" Chips

https://spectrum.ieee.org/terahertz-chip-room-temperature

1•FromTheArchives•6m ago•0 comments

Tech PACS Are Closing in on the Almonds

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/tech-pacs-are-closing-in-on-the-almonds

1•WillDaSilva•6m ago•0 comments

Block (AI) Builder Fellowship

https://block.xyz/builder-fellowship

1•ned_roberts•6m ago•0 comments

Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot – fails basic privacy tests

https://doublepulsar.com/microsoft-builds-on-recall-with-gaming-copilot-fails-basic-privacy-tests...

1•speckx•7m ago•0 comments

New Release of Cyber Dungeon Quest, Open Source Clojure Action RPG Engine

https://github.com/damn/moon

1•resatori•8m ago•0 comments

When Ray-Bans Become Every Vet's Smartest Colleague

https://vets.scriptover.com/blog/rayban-ai-for-vets

1•iman613•8m ago•0 comments

Meta will use AI interactions to personalize ads

https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

2•grepex•8m ago•2 comments

Reddit accuses Perplexity of stealing user posts, expanding data rights battle

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/reddit-user-data-battle-ai-industry-sues-perplexity-scraping-post...

1•asserly•8m ago•1 comments

Video‐rate tunable colour electronic paper with human resolution

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09642-3

1•bookofjoe•8m ago•0 comments

A Costly Radio System Faltered When Texas Needed It Most

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/texas-flood-radios-public-safety.html

1•ripe•9m ago•0 comments

Google AI aims to make best-in-class scientific software better

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03289-w

1•praccu•9m ago•0 comments

Intl.Segmenter

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/Segmenter

1•bpierre•10m ago•0 comments

Building a RAG on SQLite

https://blog.sqlite.ai/building-a-rag-on-sqlite

1•marcobambini•11m ago•0 comments

Why Is So Much of Ancient Rome Still Standing? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaWm_BaWVwc

1•Anon84•11m ago•0 comments

Nimo – An Intelligent Canvas that goes far Beyond the Browser

https://www.nimo.space/

3•rohil-nimo•11m ago•1 comments

Perplexity Response to Reddit's Lawsuit

https://www.reddit.com/r/perplexity_ai/s/eio6l38oYV

2•ChrisArchitect•13m ago•1 comments

Action Without Stakes

https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/stakes/

1•FromTheArchives•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made "Git for LLMs" – a context management interface

https://twigg.ai

4•jborland•14m ago•1 comments

Are Unikernels the Answer for Next-Gen AI Cloud Workloads?

https://thenewstack.io/are-unikernels-the-answer-for-next-gen-ai-cloud-workloads/

3•ashvardanian•15m ago•0 comments

High Resolution Scrolling with Stabilised Walnut Dial [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWIZYzgDixk

1•aranw•16m ago•0 comments

I ran Claude Code for a weekend to create a reactive UI library with Effect

https://stefvanwijchen.com/claude-code-weekend-effect-ui/

1•stefvw93•20m ago•1 comments

Russian Government Now Actively Managing Cybercrime Groups: Security Firm

https://www.securityweek.com/russian-government-now-actively-managing-cybercrime-groups-security-...

2•Bender•20m ago•1 comments