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Fantastic list of well-known and popular applications that seem too afraid to ever evolve beyond v0.x.

A24 got embroiled in copyright strikes against online creations related to the Backrooms. People, unsurprisingly, got very angry. The issue seems solved, for the moment, but it says a lot about capitalist appropriation of mass-created popular culture.

I've long been a fan of pie menus. I wish macOS had adopted and used pie menus. This looks like something I need to try out at some point.

A pretty fun Reddit post that contains a potted history of the evolution of Second Life. I've had an account for a good chunk of that time and it all reads about right to me.

The FSF, in effect, do what the FSF is there to do: defend the copyright of GNU Emacs. Meanwhile someone attempts to contribute a patch written by a large language model, and seemingly gets offended that it's rejected. I think the worst part about it is they seem to think that being honest about using an LLM should let their contribution in.

A good reminder that, as fun and neat as Gemtext is, it's not terribly accessible.

A handy guide to all things relating to the small web, and related concepts.

On the one hand, this looks like a fun idea: sort of a Second Life for websites. On the other hand it's the worst of the Internet, which is no surprise.

An article in which the author talks about the con played by psychics, and how large language models pretty much do exactly the same thing.