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usonian

(26,458 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2026, 04:24 PM Apr 20

The completely unreadable internet. [View all]

Small type, "not quite black" type against a gray background, skinny columns, absolutely idiotic and often wildly unrelated graphics at the top. And lots more stuff that makes me want to get new reading glasses. But there's a cure.

Look at this article (but not for long unless you're a glutton for punishment).

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-wants-power-without-accountability

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto
The problems with our tech philosopher kings

While it's on point, I don't want to see some filthy rich technocrat making millions off the death of others in his codpiece (I think he got it at Trader Joe's)





And besides, it's tough reading, as described above.

When I go to print to PDF, simplified format, in Firefox, it looks like a nice LaTEX scientific paper, highly readable (limited by the crappiness of image hosts shrinking graphics down to DU-friendly size.)



I save articles for easier search and for readability I enforce on them.

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