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FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
Jason Koebler, archive.ph, 2025/11/06

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This is the archived site of a paywalled 404 Media article describing how the American F.B.I. is trying to find out who is running the archive site this archive is on. "The subpoena, which was posted on X by archive.today on October 30, was sent by the FBI to Tucows, a popular Canadian domain registrar." I would think the FBI would subpoena services that are actually within its jurisdiction, but that's just me. Here's the archive of the original news article, in German, where the story surfaced. 

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Alliance for Decision Education
Alliance for Decision Education, 2025/11/06

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I'm not really sure what to make of this, even after spending a half hour or so reading everything on the site along with some associated links, such as the Society for Decision Education, Decision Education Foundation and podcast. Here's what the website says: "Decision Education prepares students to flourish in our ever-changing world. It';s about teaching students how to think, not what to think." Here are some tools, which all appear pretty basic. Maybe it's real, maybe it's corporate, maybe it's political - I really can't tell, so I just pass it on.

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Decentralised communities
tchop, 2025/11/06

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I referenced this in my presentation yesterday. Decentralized communities are "communities where decision-making, content creation, and governance are distributed among members rather than controlled by a central authority." As they say, "Decentralised communities are not a trend - they're a response to a deeper shift in how people connect, collaborate, and build trust online. They reflect a growing desire for autonomy, ownership, and collective agency."

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Projects - Storytelling
Northwestern University Knight Lab, 2025/11/06

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I saw this in the context of the student projects at the Reclaim Open conference. This page from Knight Lab is a set of storytelling tools. You've seen them on various news stories over the years - the slider that shows before/after pictures, VR stories, storylines with popups on a line, Timeline that does the same thing with a calendar.

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The Global Edge Platform that truly Hops
bunny.net, bunny.net, 2025/11/06

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Saw this at the Reclaim Hosting site. "Hop on bunny.net and speed up your web presence with the next-generation Content Delivery Service (CDN), Edge Storage, and Optimization Services at any scale." It was demonstrated in the context of creating your own video streaming site with a WordPress front-end. The specific service was Bunny.stream.

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LLM vs RAG vs Agent Workbook
Tom Yeh, AI by Hand, 2025/11/06

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This is pretty cool, a workbook (7 page PDF) that allows you to go through all the steps of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) by hand. "What I want to build is a playground — a place where you can touch everything, climb over ideas, stumble a little, maybe even fall once or twice. Because that's how real learning happens — not by watching, but by working with your hands."

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