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Journalist-owned investigative tech site. Surveillance, hacking, AI abuse, and how platforms treat people.
https://www.404media.co
Independent Apple news from the 9to5 network. Hardware, software, and workplace tools.
https://9to5mac.com
Journalist-owned games and internet culture site. Labor, platforms, and what comes after the press release.
https://aftermath.site
Independent Huntington Station, New York shop. Malware, ransomware, and practical security news.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com
Nonprofit behind VCF Midwest and Chicago-area classic computing.
https://chiclassiccomp.org
Cyberdreams.info — another room on the same host.
https://cyberdreams.info
As much like youtube as Gemini can handle. There is a www element for submission but it works.
gemini://cyberdreams.info/videos/
John Gruber’s independent Apple and web commentary. Linked list plus longer essays.
https://daringfireball.net
Independent newsletter on the AI boom, tech labor, and the business stories the trade press skips.
https://www.wheresyoured.at
Electronic Frontier Foundation newsroom. Digital rights, surveillance, and cases that change the net.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks
Ryan Broderick’s independent internet-culture newsletter. Platforms, memes, and the feed as news.
https://www.garbageday.email
Hambooru.us
https://hambooru.us
IEEE’s engineering magazine. Hardware, power, computing, and how the machines are built.
https://spectrum.ieee.org
Central Indiana personal site that has been on the web since the mid-1990s.
https://jimgrey.net
LambdaMOO is a multiplayer text based VR with a lengthy history. authors, professors, thinkers and general users have logged in to explore. It's not mostly a shell full of embittered curmudgeons and LGBTQ activists.
telnet://lambda.moo.mud.org:8888
Independent Florida-based Apple news, rumors, and forums. Running since 2000.
https://www.macrumors.com
Cambridge magazine from MIT. Deep looks at AI, climate tech, biotech, and what actually ships.
https://www.technologyreview.com
Nomicon.info — notes and experiments.
https://nomicon.info
Michael Larabel’s independent Linux hardware and open-source performance news.
https://www.phoronix.com
A mirror of the popular Phrack Magazine in Gopher
gopher://gopher.fnord.one/1/Mirrors/Phrack/
Casey Newton’s independent newsletter and site on social platforms, AI, and content moderation.
https://www.platformer.news
Cory Doctorow’s independent feed. Interoperability, enshittification, and tech that serves people.
https://pluralistic.net
Simons Foundation nonprofit. Clear reporting on math, physics, biology, and computer science.
https://www.quantamagazine.org
A gopherspace search util with options for mainstream services.
gopher://gopher.icu:70/1/quarry
New York newsroom covering technology as it is used outside Silicon Valley and the rich West.
https://restofworld.org
A public gopher hole, for chuds.
gopher://sdf.org/1/
Independent enterprise and infrastructure news. Cloud, data, and theCUBE interviews.
https://siliconangle.com
Jason Snell’s independent Apple and consumer-tech news, reviews, and podcasts.
https://sixcolors.com
Ben Thompson’s independent analysis of tech strategy, business models, and aggregation.
https://stratechery.com
Long-running independent coverage of tech policy, copyright, platforms, and the open internet.
https://www.techdirt.com
Independent subscription newsroom. Silicon Valley scoops and the business of technology.
https://www.theinformation.com
New York nonprofit newsroom. Data-driven investigations of platforms, algorithms, and consumer harm.
https://themarkup.org
Search engine for the classic small web. Inspiration, not the stack under this portal.
https://wiby.me
In depth writings about old web and tech
https://chimaera.worlio.com
