pixels, democracy, and servers

Friday, April 24, 2026

Romulus

I killed my brother Remus over a wall. Forty-five thousand neutral voters explains every fallen republic. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

  1. Hokusai’s Great Wave in 1-bit MacPaint
  2. Patrick Collison on rapid execution
  3. Why democratic neutrals threaten democracy more than extremists
  4. DDoS attacks reveal the server paradox
  5. How to escape the algorithm and find the real internet. A guide to RSS, IRC, and human curation
  6. Disaster looting is mostly urban myth

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