Fuck off Journals. I hope there is a special place in hell for anyone who tries to make people pay to access classic scientific articles that are in the public domain.

The best defense is to not be offensive.

What would internet access look like if it wasn't controlled by megacorps, but by YOU. Publicly-owned infrastructure isn't new and it doesn't have to stay a dream in Portland. Come out and chat with other people fed up with the status quo: cbbpdx.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/…

In Minnesota’s Beltrami County (pop 46,288; density 18.6 people/square mile, median income $33,392/household), the local co-op Paul Bunyan Communications offers symmetrical fiber at speeds up to 10gb/s. But that’s just table-stakes: Paul Bunyan doesn’t just offer reasonably

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When enshittification comes for science, institutions need to band together to embrace new platforms. #OAWeek eff.org/deeplinks/2025…

Today I learned that Dick Cheney has escaped justice.

One key thing Zohran can learn from Milwaukee's sewer socialists is that to deliver transformative reforms you need to lean on mass movement pressure

Capitalists have gone from profit-seekers to rent-seekers, largely or completely divorced from material production using the levers of politcal power to extract such rents Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/big…

Texas tried to turn the App Store into a checkpoint, forcing digital ID scans to download anything. A federal judge just froze the law, calling it a First Amendment violation. The state can’t run the internet like a DMV.

In the first nine months of 2025, nearly 300 farms filed for bankruptcy, up almost 40% from 2024, according to U.S. court data.

Community Broadband PDX is having another in-person meetup tomorrow evening at the Holgate Branch library, starting at about 5pm: calagator.org/events/1250482…

pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-… might help illustrate why the Portland Police have trouble with recruiting? The article doesn't even bother to name the officers involved.

Every politician says "more housing." It's not enough to say "more housing." We should demand a serious housing agenda. Build millions of public units. Pass a nationwide tenant bill of rights. Ban hedge funds owning homes.

Could you imagine if there were journalists whose beat was covering magicians, but they think magic is real, so they're always breathlessly reporting on the lady they saw cut in half.

Love this opinion piece from The Seattle Times. 🔥 If Chattanooga can do it, so can cities across America. Let’s make municipal broadband happen, Seattle City Light. 👏 seattletimes.com/opinion/seattl…

In June 2003, our founder gave a nice inspirational farewell speech as he was about to go off to a different life in a country over the seas: personaltelco.net/~russell/ptp-m…

Hoy es domingo nuevamente, mi día de descanso. Esta semana, he cumplido 97 años y te anuncio con mucha alegría que comenzó para mí un nuevo ciclo de vida y de creación. Te deposito un abrazo hasta el próximo domingo, Alejandro . Photo Pascale Montandon-J.