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The rate at which ransomware victims paid cybercriminals fell last year while the overall number of attacks ballooned, Chainalysis found.

3D TV, AMP, Augmented Reality, Beanie Babies, Blockchain, Cartoon Avatars, Curved TVs, Frogans, Hoverboards, iBeacons, Jetpacks, Metaverse, NFTs, Physical Web, Quantum Computing, Quibi, Small and

A technical analysis of the worst possible artist name in the streaming era

500 tracks released in one year across three deliberately invisible identities

6 insights curated. Top: OCC Lays Out Framework for Regulated Stablecoins Under GE... (33.4/10)

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Previously: What's the deal with SvelteKit? (/blog/whats-the-deal-with-sveltekit) It's time. After five months and hundreds of commits, you're finally invited to try out the SvelteKit beta. It's not

Two projects that have been months (even years) in the making have made their way out into the world. SvelteKit is now in public beta and slotted components are now available in Svelte! What's up

From The Changelog (JS Party Ep. 182 (https://changelog.com/jsparty/182)) to Svelte Radio (Episodes 29 (https://share.transistor.fm/s/adc23e84) and 30 (https://share.transistor.fm/s/6316622d)), it

This month, Svelte was voted StackOverflow's most loved web framework (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-web-frameworks), Tan Li Hau talked to

Hey y'all 👋 It's been 1 year since "What's new in Svelte" started being cross-posted to the Svelte blog. I wanted to take this moment at the top to thank all of you for reading and for all the

With SvelteKit crossing the 80% complete mark (https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/milestone/2), over 5000 stars (https://github.com/sveltejs/kit) on GitHub, and now having more usage than Sapper,

With SvelteKit getting more and more stable each day, there's not much to cover in terms of code changes other than bug fixes... So, in this month's newsletter, we'll be covering Svelte Summit Fall

Happy new year, Svelte Community! Lots to share this month across Svelte, SvelteKit, Language Tools and the Showcase. Thanks to everyone who made 2021 a great year to use Svelte. Looking forward to

In this week’s Ag Tribes Report, Vance Crowe is joined by entrepreneur, farmer, and Iowa Corn Growers director Elliot Henderson for a fast-moving breakdown of four big stories shaping agriculture.

Just released: Kubo 0.40.0!

PAI turns Claude Code into composable personal infrastructure you own through Markdown files. OpenClaw routes messages through a daemon you maintain.

I Just Launched a Data Vending Machine on Nostr

Twitch is asking streamers to hand over a government ID and selfie to a controversial third-party service to collect money they've already earned. The post Twitch Forces Partners to Show ID To

The body keeps the score The post The Surprising Benefits of Yo-Yo Dieting (https://nautil.us/the-surprising-benefits-of-yo-yo-dieting-1270462/) appeared first on Nautilus (https://nautil.us).

Power does not concentrate as a result of bad actors, it concentrates because the system rewards it. "Big Government" is not a Left or Right issue despite what both sides of the aisle would lead you to believe; it is simply a symptom of a system with incorrect incentives.

Welcome to the seventh edition of the Human Rights Foundation’s AI for Individual Rights newsletter.

Credit card fees cost Canadian SMBs ,500-,500 per K in sales. The CAD has lost 30% of purchasing power in a decade. Bitcoin Lightning fixes the first problem. A 21M hard cap addresses the second. Here's the math, the CRA rules, and the honest objections.

Screens dominated computing for decades not because they were ideal, but because they were necessary - computers couldn't understand natural language. Now that LLMs handle input and agents handle output, that constraint just evaporated. This essay explores what replaces screens, using PullThatUpJamie as a real-world case study of agent-first design.

Bitcoin from a Stoic Perspective explores the philosophical parallels between Bitcoin and Stoicism — two systems separated by millennia yet united by a shared commitment to natural law, incorruptibility, and the primacy of action over intention. Drawing parallels between Stoic concepts and Bitcoin's architecture, the essay argues that while Bitcoin is not itself a moral agent, its rule-based design reflects and reinforces Stoic principles in the realm of money.

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Continuum is a a local-first publishing and identity tool built on Nostr

Growth is welcome. But growth that fractures trust boundaries is corrosion. In this chapter, I confront the real temptation behind slow adoption—the shortcut of central hosting—and explain why Continuum rests on seven rules that do not bend. These rules are not aesthetic preferences; they are structural constraints designed to prevent leverage, inconsistency, and quiet self-betrayal. Ease is welcome. Dilution is not.

Obscurity tests conviction. Growth tests clarity. In this chapter, I explore what would happen if Continuum scaled faster than expected. The real danger would not be failure. It would be drift—convenience pressure, feature accumulation, and the quiet erosion of simplicity. If Continuum grows, it must remain understandable, constrained, and structurally coherent.

Continuum is not finished. Some elements remain incomplete—relay management per identity, targeted publishing, offline signing, mirrored dashboards, large encrypted attachments, and a sovereign marketplace layer. But incompleteness is not incoherence. This chapter reflects on what Continuum might become, what happens if it fails, and how building it fundamentally transformed the builder. The system may evolve. The shift does not reverse. Freedom is worth building for.

I’ve been writing about freedom lately — and noticed how naturally I drifted into Scripture. That wasn’t accidental. The freedom I feel building and publishing locally-first isn’t just technical. It’s structural. And it mirrors deeper truths about custody, authority, and release from silent masters.

There are days when it feels like everyone else is being seen — more replies, more likes, more engagement — while my work drifts quietly past. I felt that. Deeply. But then something shifted. I realized: even if no one reacts, I am still free. And that realization pulled me back from despair.

Tonight I realized something unexpected: local-first publishing is a gift. Not a feature. Not a technical preference. A gift. I didn’t fully recognize it until I felt ignored — and then discovered that I was still free.