A smaller but higher traffic list focused on people curating third party posts that I find notable. The net is healthier when people link out to other sites. Adding a few related links to a post sets up a vast linked network to explore and discover. 2025-11-18T20:58:11.761Z BlogFlock SIMON REYNOLDS, Web Curios, Kellan Elliott-McCrea, Cecily, Johnny Webber - Links, Modern Mrs Darcy: Links I Love, Arts & Letters Daily, Critical Distance, LinkMachineGo, Tiny Awards, Longreads, joe jenett, Perfect Sentences, Fix The News, Web Wanderings by Cloudhiker, JSTOR Suggested Readings, ResearchBuzz: Firehose, Nelson Minar, Pinboard (jm), Waxy.org, Best of the Net, Rock Paper Shotgun: The Sunday Papers http://thekramerisnow.blogspot.com/2015/11/sexual-liberty-and-its-discontents.html 2025-11-18T20:00:32.000Z

<p>Patricia Marino | The Kramer Is Now | 16th November 2015 | U</p><p>Read the full article on the site...</p> https://cyrilhedoin.substack.com/p/externalities-rights-and-the-problem 2025-11-18T20:00:32.000Z

<p>Cyril Hédoin | The Archimedean Point | 14th November 2025 | U</p><p>Read the full article on the site...</p> https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article312597117.html 2025-11-18T20:00:32.000Z

<p>Brittany Wallman &amp; Susan Merriam | Miami Herald | 9th November 2025 | B</p><p>Read the full article on the site...</p> https://aeon.co/essays/victorian-diary-writers-kicked-off-our-age-of-self-optimisation 2025-11-18T20:00:32.000Z

<p>Elena Mary | Aeon | 17th November 2025 | U</p><p>Read the full article on the site...</p> https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/music/the-beauty-of-dissonance 2025-11-18T20:00:32.000Z

<p>Jay Nordlinger | Plough | 18th November 2025 | U</p><p>Read the full article on the site...</p> https://waxy.org/?p=50419 2025-11-18T17:28:23.000Z

Ryan Feigenbaum made "a <a href="https://ryanfeigenbaum.com/color-palette-pro/">synthesizer for color</a>" <a href="https://waxy.org/2025/11/color-palette-pro/">#</a> https://mastodon.world/@longreads/115571373703530103 2025-11-18T15:20:13.000Z

<p>America&#39;s liminal wetlands don&#39;t just persist, writes Ashley Stimpson. They insist. Today&#39;s inspiration for flagging resilience comes from a place you might not expect. </p><p><a href="https://longreads.com/2025/10/02/to-love-a-swamp/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/10/02/to-lo</span><span class="invisible">ve-a-swamp/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Swamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Swamps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Wetlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wetlands</span></a></p> https://rbfirehose.com/?p=280772 2025-11-18T14:08:51.000Z

<p>Engadget: <a href="https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-and-google-delay-undersea-cables-over-security-concerns-163508037.html?src=rss">Meta and Google delay undersea cables over security concerns</a>. &#8220;Meta and Google are facing delays with long-promised undersea cable projects, according to a report by Bloomberg. A Meta spokesperson blames the delays on a &#8216;range of operational factors, regulatory concerns and geopolitical risk.'&#8221;</p>The post <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/engadget-meta-and-google-delay-undersea-cables-over-security-concerns/">Engadget: Meta and Google delay undersea cables over security concerns</a> first appeared on <a href="https://rbfirehose.com">ResearchBuzz: Firehose</a>. https://rbfirehose.com/?p=280767 2025-11-18T14:01:51.000Z

<p>CBC: <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/streets-of-the-past-ai-series-9.6981685?cmp=rss">Creator of AI actor Tilly Norwood announces AI-assisted History Channel series</a>. &#8220;Straten van Toen (Streets of the Past) is a planned 10-part series commissioned by Hearst Networks, a partial owner of History, that will see historian and author Corjan Mol travel to different Dutch sights, which will then be made to appear as they did during various historical periods via generative artificial intelligence tools.&#8221;</p>The post <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/cbc-creator-of-ai-actor-tilly-norwood-announces-ai-assisted-history-channel-series/">CBC: Creator of AI actor Tilly Norwood announces AI-assisted History Channel series</a> first appeared on <a href="https://rbfirehose.com">ResearchBuzz: Firehose</a>. https://rbfirehose.com/?p=280761 2025-11-18T13:59:24.000Z

<p>Mashable: <a href="https://mashable.com/article/age-verification-may-impede-on-adults-rights-study-suggests?test_uuid=04wb5avZVbBe1OWK6996faM&#038;test_variant=a">Age-verification laws don&#8217;t keep minors away from adult sites, study suggests</a>. &#8220;Back in March, a working paper from researchers at NYU and other universities suggested that age-verification laws are ineffective. Now, a new analysis not only supports the same finding but also suggests that these laws may impose a burden on adults&#8217; First Amendment rights.&#8221;</p>The post <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/mashable-age-verification-laws-dont-keep-minors-away-from-adult-sites-study-suggests/">Mashable: Age-verification laws don’t keep minors away from adult sites, study suggests</a> first appeared on <a href="https://rbfirehose.com">ResearchBuzz: Firehose</a>. https://rbfirehose.com/?p=280756 2025-11-18T13:57:28.000Z

<p>Ahmad Alfy: <a href="https://alfy.blog/2025/10/31/your-url-is-your-state.html">Your URL Is Your State</a>. &#8220;We reach for all sorts of abstractions to manage state such as global stores, contexts, and caches while ignoring one of the web’s most elegant and oldest features: the humble URL. In my previous article, I wrote about the hidden costs of bad URL design. Today, I want to flip that perspective and talk about the immense value of good URL design.&#8221; <i>I do a lot of URL-building with the tools I make since I don&#8217;t want to scrape Google and I can&#8217;t afford APIs. This is a terrific article.</i></p>The post <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/ahmad-alfy-your-url-is-your-state/">Ahmad Alfy: Your URL Is Your State</a> first appeared on <a href="https://rbfirehose.com">ResearchBuzz: Firehose</a>. https://rbfirehose.com/?p=280750 2025-11-18T13:52:35.000Z

<p>MakeUseOf: <a href="https://www.makeuseof.com/ai-browser-security-warning/">Before you install an AI browser, read this </a>. &#8220;I am all for competition, especially in a space that has basically become a monopoly. But after actually using some of these so-called AI browsers, I am not convinced. I tried the new ChatGPT Atlas browser for about a week before removing it, and that pretty much pushed me into looking deeper into the whole category. The more I looked, the more it felt like we are heading in the wrong direction.&#8221;</p>The post <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/makeuseof-before-you-install-an-ai-browser-read-this/">MakeUseOf: Before you install an AI browser, read this</a> first appeared on <a href="https://rbfirehose.com">ResearchBuzz: Firehose</a>. https://rbfirehose.com/?p=280745 2025-11-18T13:52:00.000Z

<p>La Voz de Lanzarote: <A href="https://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/en/news/politics/lanzarote-promotes-sound-archive-to-preserve-the-memory-of-its-elders_239304_102.html">Lanzarote promotes a sound archive to preserve the memory of its elders</a>. &#8220;The Island Service of Historical Heritage of the Cabildo de Lanzarote is promoting the podcast project Tales of the Canary Grandparents, a proposal that seeks to preserve and disseminate the richness of the oral memory of the elders of Lanzarote and La Graciosa.&#8221;</p>The post <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/la-voz-de-lanzarote-lanzarote-promotes-a-sound-archive-to-preserve-the-memory-of-its-elders/">La Voz de Lanzarote: Lanzarote promotes a sound archive to preserve the memory of its elders</a> first appeared on <a href="https://rbfirehose.com">ResearchBuzz: Firehose</a>. https://rbfirehose.com/?p=280737 2025-11-18T13:45:11.000Z

<p>Variety: <a href="https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ai-generated-images-threaten-future-of-documentary-1236583466/">AI-Generated Images Threaten Future of Documentary as People ‘Will Stop Believing Anything’: ‘Deep Fake Is the Crime, AI Is a Tool’</a>. &#8220;Leading documentarians gathered at this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s largest festival for docs, to discuss best practices, pressing warnings and what the future may look like for documentaries as AI use becomes more and more widespread.&#8221;</p>The post <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/ai-generated-images-threaten-future-of-documentary-as-people-will-stop-believing-anything-deep-fake-is-the-crime-ai-is-a-tool-variety/">AI-Generated Images Threaten Future of Documentary as People ‘Will Stop Believing Anything’: ‘Deep Fake Is the Crime, AI Is a Tool’ (Variety)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://rbfirehose.com">ResearchBuzz: Firehose</a>. https://rbfirehose.com/?p=280729 2025-11-18T13:42:55.000Z

<p>Tom&#8217;s Hardware: <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/software/video-editing-graphic-design/gigantic-vhs-videotape-hoard-of-thousands-of-videos-stored-in-mcdonalds-boxes-being-given-away-for-free-internet-archive-looks-set-to-claim-the-tapes-of-u-s-news-output-spanning-2004-09">Gigantic VHS videotape hoard of thousands of videos stored in McDonald&#8217;s boxes being given away for free — Internet Archive looks set to claim the tapes of U.S. news output spanning 2004-09</a>. &#8220;If you would like to rehome thousands of old VHS videotapes, there’s an incredible hoard of these nostalgic artifacts from the days of analog TV, stored carefully in McDonald&#8217;s boxes, being given away for free. However, you’ll need a convincing story, as it already looks like a representative from the Internet Archive is a hot favorite to claim this truckload of tapes and digitize them.&#8221;</p>The post <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/toms-hardware-gigantic-vhs-videotape-hoard-of-thousands-of-videos-stored-in-mcdonalds-boxes-being-given-away-for-free-internet-archive-looks-set-to-claim-the-tapes-of-u-s-news-output-s/">Tom’s Hardware: Gigantic VHS videotape hoard of thousands of videos stored in McDonald’s boxes being given away for free — Internet Archive looks set to claim the tapes of U.S. news output spanning 2004-09</a> first appeared on <a href="https://rbfirehose.com">ResearchBuzz: Firehose</a>. https://rbfirehose.com/?p=280724 2025-11-18T13:40:41.000Z

<p>Video Game History Foundation: <a href="https://gamehistory.org/library-highlight-the-art-of-gamepro/">Library Highlight: The art of GamePro</a>. &#8220;Years ago, we were donated the internal art archives from GamePro magazine. Whenever the staff at GamePro received artwork or screenshots from a game publisher, they backed it up on a CD and organized it in a set of binders for future reference. As part of our preservation mission, we’ve been digitizing the GamePro press CDs and adding them to our digital archive.&#8221;</p>The post <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/library-highlight-the-art-of-gamepro-video-game-history-foundation/">Library Highlight: The art of GamePro (Video Game History Foundation)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://rbfirehose.com">ResearchBuzz: Firehose</a>. https://rbfirehose.com/?p=280717 2025-11-18T13:36:32.000Z

<p>TechCrunch: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/apples-new-app-review-guidelines-clamp-down-on-apps-sharing-personal-data-with-third-party-ai/">Apple’s new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with ‘third-party AI’ </a>. &#8220;Apple on Thursday introduced a new set of App Review Guidelines for developers, which now specifically state that apps must disclose and obtain users’ permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI.&#8221;</p>The post <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/techcrunch-apples-new-app-review-guidelines-clamp-down-on-apps-sharing-personal-data-with-third-party-ai/">TechCrunch: Apple’s new App Review Guidelines clamp down on apps sharing personal data with ‘third-party AI’</a> first appeared on <a href="https://rbfirehose.com">ResearchBuzz: Firehose</a>. https://rbfirehose.com/?p=280709 2025-11-18T13:31:01.000Z

<p>ARTnews: <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/video-data-bank-downsizing-school-art-institute-chicago-1234761928/">Key Video Art Organization’s Future Is Uncertain After Downsizing by School of the Art Institute of Chicago</a>. &#8220;The School of the Art Institute of Chicago dismissed more than half of the staff last week at the Video Data Bank, a video art–focused organization whose services are used widely by museums across the globe. Three of the organization’s five staff members saw their positions eliminated by the school on November 12, according to Tom Colley, the Video Data Bank’s former director.&#8221;</p>The post <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/artnews-key-video-art-organizations-future-is-uncertain-after-downsizing-by-school-of-the-art-institute-of-chicago/">ARTnews: Key Video Art Organization’s Future Is Uncertain After Downsizing by School of the Art Institute of Chicago</a> first appeared on <a href="https://rbfirehose.com">ResearchBuzz: Firehose</a>. https://rbfirehose.com/?p=280704 2025-11-18T13:28:34.000Z

<p>New York Times: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/crypto-exchanges-dirty-money.html?unlocked_article_code=1.108.gX9_.WiCPj_lLjvHN&#038;smid=url-share">The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’</a>. <i>This link goes to a gift article.</i> &#8220;&#8230;even as the crypto industry gains mainstream acceptance, at least $28 billion tied to illicit activity has flowed into crypto exchanges over the last two years, according to an examination by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The New York Times and 36 other news organizations around the world.&#8221;</p>The post <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/new-york-times-the-crypto-industrys-28-billion-in-dirty-money/">New York Times: The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’</a> first appeared on <a href="https://rbfirehose.com">ResearchBuzz: Firehose</a>. https://rbfirehose.com/?p=280693 2025-11-18T13:25:14.000Z

<p>NPR: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/11/16/nx-s1-5607245/harlems-studio-museum-an-important-home-for-black-art-finds-a-permanent-location">Harlem&#8217;s Studio Museum, an important home for Black art, finds a permanent location</a>. &#8220;Back in 1968, a group of artists and activists rented a loft above an uptown Manhattan liquor store, determined to turn it into a nexus for Black culture. They called it the Studio Museum in Harlem. In the 57 years since, the Studio Museum has become an internationally acclaimed hub for artists of African descent, and now it has a home worthy of its influence.&#8221; </p>The post <a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/18/npr-harlems-studio-museum-an-important-home-for-black-art-finds-a-permanent-location/">NPR: Harlem’s Studio Museum, an important home for Black art, finds a permanent location</a> first appeared on <a href="https://rbfirehose.com">ResearchBuzz: Firehose</a>.