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ForkLog 87 24.10.2025

In Search of a New World Consensus for the 21st Century

Anatoly Kaplan on why a network state is quite possible — but it is not Liberland.

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Digital ID goes global: rollouts, safeguards and backlash

ForkLog 405 21.10.2025

The All-Seeing ID: Tracking the Rise of State and Corporate Digital Identifiers

From Australia and Japan to Kenya and Argentina, ForkLog examines how countries are adopting digital identity.

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ForkLog 55 17.10.2025

The Meme Archipelago

What drives the world’s fourth-most populous country—and why crypto has become a substitute for social mobility.

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Silicon Tanks: Richard Stallman, father of copyleft

ForkLog 162 15.10.2025

Silicon Tanks: Richard Stallman, Father of the Copyleft Revolution

The most radical alternative to copyright—and its legendary creator.

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ForkLog 209 08.10.2025

Nepal’s Discord Revolution

What really drove Nepal’s Gen-Z uprising—and whether the country can still hope for a digital future.

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ForkLog 109 02.10.2025

Death to the Machine

Writer Paul Kingsnorth on how people are building a new Tower of Babel.

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ForkLog 109 23.09.2025

‘When someone dies, people become richer’

“Party of the Dead” deputy Maxim Evstropov on the economics of death and the possibilities of a Proof-of-Death algorithm.

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ForkLog 59 17.09.2025

Freedom and Unanimity

How a post-war cadre at the University of Virginia challenged faith in government efficacy.

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ForkLog 478 11.09.2025

BitChat kept communication flowing during protests in Indonesia and Nepal

On the growing real-world use of an anonymous messenger.

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ForkLog 103 21.08.2025

A wallet as a passport: new world or prison?

How a crypto wallet becomes an instrument of social control.

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ForkLog 44 12.08.2025

The science of manipulation

Classical economic theory assumes people act rationally and strive to maximise their gains. Yet a strand of scholarship disputes this, pointing out that people often act irrationally, swayed by emotions, biases and cognitive limits. In this ForkLog article, we examine how behavioural economics has changed the way we think about human action, why it became […]

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ForkLog 65 11.08.2025

Piercing the silence

Not only in Russia, but across the world, regulation of the open internet has tightened in recent years. The result is that the global web is starting to fray before our eyes. In this ForkLog report, together with Ilya Perevalov, a technical expert at “Роскомсвободы”, we examine the degree of isolation in the Runet and […]

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