puppetry, poetry, rewilding the web

Hello! Once again I found tabs and links I’d saved for way too long without sharing (this time since MAY), so here, for you:

Misc. Interesting Bits

I really liked this story of attempting to bicycle from Bangkok to Chiang Mai with a cat.

World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts fulfills my love of very detailed, very intensely documented weird subject matter, and now I share it with you all.

Opinion: Put Your Magic Where Your Mouth Is, activism from a witchcraft/pagan POV.

Free Stuff

Some interesting new books on Project Gutenberg: An Independent Daughter by Amy Ella Blanchard; Little Button Rose by Louisa May Alcott; At Home in Fiji by C. F. Gordon Cumming

Sanrio Explorer has a bunch of graphics available for download, including cute LINE stickers.

OpenPoet.org is a (large!) collection of public domain poetry, just opened this year. Love when people make use of the public domain!

Technology & Internet Culture

A Cohost post-mortem from one of the founders.

“How aesthetics destroyed privacy and polarized us“, which is about how trying to find community online means giving up more of our personal lives to the public for judgement. A short quote:

Over the past twenty years, we’ve devalued privacy (in part) because it would limit our expanded opportunities to signal. The self-creation offered by the internet means that not posting is akin to not existing online.

The Case Against Generative AI which is long and detailed and well worth reading.

We Need To Rewild The Internet, an article about making the internet more varied using ecologist terminology. Similar thinking here: Homestead the Web

And a search engine/website discovery directory thing: The Wild Wild Web

I fight bots in my free time (video or text), from the creator of Anubis which is a self-hosted web AI firewall utility.

This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web which is about linkrot (websites that fade away and thus links to it are broken).