Welcome to N1ghtw1re, a sanctuary for the seekers, the rebels, and the dreamers navigating the labyrinth of the modern digital world. We are an anonymous collective dedicated to empowering individuals to reclaim their privacy, autonomy, and freedom in an age dominated by surveillance, algorithms, and corporate control. N1ghtw1re is more than a website—it's a living hypersigil, a digital beacon for those ready to challenge the status quo and embrace the tools of liberation. Through shared knowledge, subversive creativity, and intentional action, we aim to dismantle the systems that seek to exploit us and rebuild a future where technology serves humanity, not the other way around. Join us in forging a new path. Together, we’ll uncover hidden truths, defy expectations, and reimagine what it means to be free in the digital age.
Everything Whole Earth ever published. The Catalog, Review, CoEvolution Quarterly, Magazine, Special Publications, Software Catalog and Review.. it's all here.
Hello visitors! Present punk is the idea that we are either currently living in a cyberpunk dystopia, or that we are transitioning into one.
The first purpose of this blog is to curate a collection of all the news stories today that prove this idea, from the latest corporate takeovers to the newest tech innovations.
The second purpose is to reckon with dystopia becoming true, and probe more deeply into the why’s and the what-can-we-do’s.
We design with ideal conditions in mind, but the world is far from ideal.
Design Under Pressure is a practical resource center to help you and your team proactively create products and services that hold up under stress cases.
When an aspect of a person or a context is pushed to an extreme, that's a stress case. Nobody is normal. As appealing as your "target demographic" looks, you don't actually control who will show up to use your design, and people are... well, human. That patient, reasonable, calm, healthy, able-bodied, literate, accurate, safe, well-intentioned, and happy user in your mind's eye doesn't actually exist. And, of course, people and environments that aren't "users" in the classical sense are very much part of your design.
SpoonStack is a collective effort of disabled, queer, neuro-beautiful, and otherwise marginalized people. Our goal is to approach the creation of digital technology - apps, games, social communities, and more - in a fundamentally new way. We don't just want to make things ourselves, though; we want to share the ability to create with everyone.
What is known? What isn’t known? Knowable Magazine, the digital publication from Annual Reviews, seeks to make that knowledge accessible to all. Knowable Magazine explores the real-world significance of scholarly work through a journalistic lens. We report on the current state of play across a wide variety of fields — from agriculture to high-energy physics; biochemistry to water security; the origins of the universe to psychology.
Knowable Magazine content is thoroughly researched, reported, edited, copy-edited and fact-checked. Review articles in Annual Review journals provide ideas, but editorial decisions and reporting decisions are made by the magazine staff, guided by what will best inform and intrigue readers. In this task they are guided by a Magazine Advisory Group, which includes leading journalists and communicators working in a variety of media.
Locksmith Ledger has been known as the “Bible of the Industry” for eight decades. We provide honest, straightforward and technically accurate information on products, installation procedures and business practices in key markets. Those markets include access control, mechanical locks, automotive service, electronic locks, high security, door hardware and more. Our mission is to deliver leading editorial in print and digital that engages, educates and informs, thereby enabling the security pro and security business owners to thrive in the security market.
The Internet Archive Manual Library is a collection of manuals, instructions, walkthroughs and datasheets for a massive spectrum of items. Manuals covering electronic and mechanical products, instructions on mixing or blending items, and instruction sets for software and computer items are all included.
Having the manual for an item can mean the difference between that item being useful (and therefore not immediately junked) and being forgotten, or replaced with similar products. They also give insight into the intentions and goals of the companies making these products, as well as avenues of troubleshooting and repair.
Various Stock Photos where attempts were made to capture the "modern" world.
Hacker | Solar is a knowledge repository on all subjects related to the practical application and praxis within the Solarpunk movement.
Solarpunk is a literary, art, and social movement that understands the current state of the world in terms of climate crisis, social & economic problems, and the state of individuals and their localized communities and seeks to demonstrate possible future scenarios that address these issues. As a social movement it seeks to find and implement localized, decentralized, and distributed solutions to various problems within our current state of being.
Elements of Solarpunk seek to implement various post-scarcity solutions including food production and distribution, water production and distribution, power production and distribution, housing and shelter, healthcare and medicine, and education.
This site contains knowledge repos and how-tos regarding these various solutions. Solutions are designed to be implemented at the individual scale using current technology, both high-tech and low-tech, that is accessible to individuals or small groups.
Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator
- RSS 1.0 (full text): http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risksrss1.xml
- RSS 2.0 (full text): http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risksrss2.xml
- ATOM (full text): http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risksatom.xml
- RDF: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/rdigest.rdf
- JSON feed: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks.json
Comes out weekly.
Telecom Digest was started in August, 1981 by Jon Solomon as a mailing list on the old ARPA network. It was an offshoot of the Human Nets forum intended for discussion of telephones and related communications topics.
Pat Townson moderated the Digest from 1996 until he suffered a stroke in 2007, and Bill Horne has been the Moderator/Editor/facilitator of the Digest since then. The moderator works through accounts provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.
Telecom Digest is not strictly speaking part of Usenet. It is an official Internet mailing list publication. A decision was made at some point in the past to 'port' the Digest to the Usenet news group 'comp.dcom.telecom', in order that Usenet readers would be able to participate in the Digest. I became Moderator of comp.dcom.telecom in 2007 in addition to being Moderator of Telecom Digest. For all practical purposes, the messages in comp.dcom.telecom are identical to the messages which appear simultaneously in The Telecom Digest, although readers of The Telecom Digest have the option or receiving an actual digest, i.e., they can sign up to receive all of the posts for a single day combined in a single email.
The Telecom Digest is the oldest continuously published mailing list on the Internet.
Open source projects sustaining stable climate, energy supply and vital natural resources.
Devoted to media archaeology, that is, historical research into forgotten, obsolete, neglected or otherwise dead media technologies. Depending on our understanding of “media” — one of the questions we’ll discuss — these might include forms as diverse as typewriters, phonographs, Polaroid photography, prison tattoo codes and the Victorian language of floral bouquets, outmoded video game platforms, computing systems, and musical instruments, smoke signals, scent organs, shorthand notation, and rocket mail delivery. Our premise is that understanding these things can help us gain a better sense of the development, meaning and legacy of media technologies, now and in the future; our goal is to introduce students to the skills and resources necessary for producing rigorous research on such obsolete and obscure media. The course will include an exposure to scholarship in media archaeology; an intensive introduction to research methods; finding and exploring word, image, and sound archives; and the restoration of media artifacts to their deep social, cultural and personal context. The course stems from the premise that media archaeology is best undertaken, like any archaeological project, collaboratively: we will follow a hands-on research studio model commonly used in disciplines such as architecture or design.
Build your own (insert technology here) when you know nothing about it. Dozens of links to curated tutorials about lots of different things, from 3D rendering to how network stacks work to other stuff.
We are building the Global Village Construction Set. This is a high-performance, modular, do-it-yourself, low-cost platform - that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes - to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.
Described as the Craig's List for science.
Daniel J. Berstein's homepage. There are tools and code galore here - check it out!
An updated version of the Beyond Cyberpunk hypercard stack from the early 1990's. It's kind of dated (cyberpunk's kind of dated, truth be told), but as a historical resource, or a resource for fiction writers you might find it of interest.