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How to build your own internet (and escape the algorithm) in 2026
The internet you experience daily—endless scrolling, algorithmic feeds serving content you didn't ask for, AI-generated slop clogging search results—isn't the only internet available. It's just the one…
Florida governor candidate proposes 50 percent tax on OnlyFans creator revenue
Politicians proposing extra taxes on pornography purchases or proceeds is nothing new. But Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback's porn tax proposal stands out for the extraordinary paternalism that comes along…
No, short-form video isn’t rotting your brain
If you or your kids have spent too much time scrolling short-form videos during your holiday breaks, don't fret—you probably haven't suffered too much brain damage. Wait, was that even a question? the less paranoid…
The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act is every bit as bad as you would expect. Maybe worse.
Sometimes you can tell a bill will be really bad just from its title. So it goes with The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Advancing Machine Intelligence by Eliminating Regulatory Interstate Chaos Across American…
Deplatforming didn’t kill extremism. It made it stronger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vac5nB_1--A When Donald Trump was kicked off social media in 2021, liberal pundit Matthew Yglesias tweeted, "It's kinda weird that deplatforming Trump just like completely worked with…
Shein can’t sell sex toys unless it checks IDs, French court says
Shein, a cheap-stuff superstore based in China that is popular worldwide, cannot sell sex toys unless it checks purchaser IDs, a French court has ruled. The case comes after the French government tried to shut down Shein for…
Top constitutional lawyer warns against Liberal bills that could turn Canada into ‘police state’
Thu Dec 18, 2025 - 6:46 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — One of Canada’s top constitutional legal experts has warned that freedom in the nation is “dying slowly” because of a host of laws both passed and now proposed by the Liberal…
Podcasts filled with straw | Power Line
Abe Socher is editor of the Jewish Review of Books. It’s become one of my favorite magazines. This week Abe sent out “Podcasts full of straw” (“Tucker, Fuentes, the algorithm & that good old-fashioned antisemitism”) to…
How the Nepalese revolution was organized on Discord
They marched to defend free speech online and ended up reshaping a nation. In September 2025, young protesters opposing Nepal's social media ban triggered a political upheaval that brought Sushila Karki to power as the…
Starlink is connecting rural America faster than government programs
Elon Musk's satellite internet service, Starlink, announced a new milestone in November: 8 million users worldwide, up from its previous high-water mark of 7 million in August. Many of these users would otherwise have no…
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