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The Archipelago of Memeland
ForkLog 48 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 122 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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Nepal’s Discord revolution
ForkLog 193 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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Death to the machine
ForkLog 103 02.10.2025

Death to the Machine

Writer Paul Kingsnorth on how people are building a new Tower of Babel.
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‘When someone dies, people become richer’
ForkLog 105 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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Freedom and Unanimity
ForkLog 55 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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BitChat kept communication flowing during protests in Indonesia and Nepal
ForkLog 462 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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A wallet as a passport: new world or prison?
ForkLog 97 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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The science of manipulation
ForkLog 42 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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Piercing the silence
ForkLog 61 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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Silicon Tanks: Ted Nelson's Vision
ForkLog 59 07.08.2025

Silicon Tanks: Ted Nelson’s Vision

Ted Nelson is a man who foresaw the future of the internet long before it came into being. He introduced the terms “hypertext” and “hypermedia,” which became the foundation of the World Wide Web. However, the internet we use today is but a pale and distorted shadow of the philosopher’s original vision. Nelson dreamed of […]
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The chat sovereign
ForkLog 33 06.08.2025

The chat sovereign

The very phrase “sovereign AI” evokes authoritarian regimes few would choose to inhabit. Yet “global artificial intelligence” conjures its own spectres: digital colonialism and other delights of a brave new world. Why, in AI development, both notions are largely meaningless and serve chiefly as tools of manipulation is the subject of this ForkLog essay by […]
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