Links for 04-11-25

“I am committed to getting around the silos of the owners of social media, and making it possible for developers and users to build their own networks with their own rules, and not have to wait for corporate programmers to give them the tools, we need to be able to make them for ourselves.”

Dave Winer on big tech and silos. Wise words.

“Cities, by contrast, are messy places: places of fluidity and freedom and possibility, places of chaos and collaboration and conflict. And sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t, but we embrace them nonetheless because in their forced intimacy, in their inexorable flow of ideas and influences and cuisines, they are the fullest expression of what it is to be human”

Wonderful words from Jonathan Liew.

Bike lanes crucial to preventing cycling near misses, major new study suggests

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