Hyphanet is a P2P alternative to the World Wide Web, and it's hilarious:

"In Hyphanet, no one knows who inserted the file, who requested the file, or where the file is stored. Therefore, it is very difficult to censor."

"The only way to delete something in Hyphanet is not to search for it"

The Algorithmic Anarchist (2023). Available for free: hughbarnard.org/the-algorith...

It's an informal book about social technics, it reads like an A-Z tour of brief thoughts on a range of topics, like lots of little opportunities to find inspiration. Also available in German and French.

Tor Snowflake is a plugin which runs in your browser and helps people to circumvent censorship in countries where Tor is blocked (an increasingly common occurrence in our surveillance-obsessed world)

snowflake.torproject.org

"The Post-American Internet": Cory Doctorow speaking at Chaos Communications Congress in 2025

archive.org/details/doct...

In response to US aggression, governments could reverse IP laws which treat reading, modifying (and fixing) the code you use as criminal, for the benefit of US tech giants

✨SUMMITBOUND EP 1 ALPHA IS OUT NOW!🌙

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If you're ever misled into thinking there is a lack of whimsy or variety on the web, just have a browse on Neocities: neocities.org/browse

"Game AI designed to surprise"

calum.mackervoy.com/en/2025/07/0...

The Commons is property that opens itself up to use by anyone, and which is owned and managed by the people who use it… So what would that mean when talking about game development?

Written by @calummackervoy.bsky.social

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out.

Someone published a how-to: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...

For anyone who hasn't seen it, I highly recommend "The Evolution of Trust", a free educational game about (among other things) why soldier's truces became common early on in the trenches of the First World War:

ncase.me/trust/

I first played it years ago and it frequently comes back into my mind

At the Anti-university festival in London, one of the workshops I ran was about the Sources of Social Power, work of sociologist Michael Mann. This post walks you through it:

calum.mackervoy.com/en/2025/10/2...

Games Commons is a new way to conceive of game design. Games are driven by data published on the web, owned and managed in common (think Wikipedia).

Read more about our project here: gamescommons.com

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