~ Early Web Links ~

TUC Radio is an independent radio producer based in Calpella, California, offering podcasts, audio CDs, and DVDs covering progressive political commentary and social issues. The site features an extensive archive of programs dating back to 2011, with a notable focus on the work of political analyst Michael Parenti, covering topics like democracy, theocracy, and U.S. foreign policy.

A low-bandwidth podcast archive hosting daily episodes of TOSOM (The Other Side of Midnight), optimized for listeners with limited data caps. The site provides a practical alternative feed so fans can consume roughly 20 episodes per month using only a fraction of a typical 10GB bandwidth allowance.

Nice Marmot is a thoughtful personal blog by a U.S. Navy veteran who weaves together firsthand military history, current events, and geopolitical commentary with a distinctly lived-in perspective. Posts draw on the author's own service experience, including time aboard USS Stephen W. Groves during the tanker war in the Persian Gulf, making for unusually grounded and personal writing.

Link Punk is a linkblog by Braden Slen that curates and comments on daily news stories spanning politics, civil liberties, and current events with a distinctly skeptical, left-leaning voice. The format is clean and RSS-friendly, offering a steady stream of annotated links to journalism and longform reads from across the web.

John Philpin's public journal serves as an outward window into his private writing life, sharing daily commentary on technology, culture, media, and the open web. Posts link out to and riff on articles about AI, RSS, credit bureaus, and design history, making it a thoughtful stream-of-consciousness digest for the curious reader.

Ronan Jouchet's 'blag' features weekly roundups of curated links spanning music discoveries, tech commentary, geopolitics, and cultural oddities from his life in Montreal. Each post is a personal digest mixing Bandcamp embeds, Kottke finds, and bilingual (French/English) reads that reflect a curious, wide-ranging mind.

Slower News is a human-curated digest tracking technology's effects on geopolitics, politics, economy, society, ecology, and more, deliberately filtered to surface relevant trends and edge cases without the noise of mainstream news cycles. Hand-coded, JavaScript-free, and tracking-free, it offers a thoughtfully minimal reading experience organized around broad themes like AI, de-dollarization, demographic shifts, and free speech.

OnlyTheGood.org is an experimental art-tech project by Donnachie, Simionato & son and Antonio Riello that automatically classifies news headlines from major services like Google News and Reuters as emotionally positive or negative, then plots the results in real-time graphs. The project blurs the line between digital art installation and media criticism, and was exhibited at a solo show in Stuttgart, Germany, with RSS feeds and a portable graph widget offered for public use.

Beeks.cool's Obscure Media section is a curated linkdump of rare, weird, and ephemeral media assembled by a collector with a sharp eye for the forgotten and strange. Visitors will find VHS oddities, old TV commercial breaks, vintage TTRPG magazines, anime convention ephemera, educational films, and promotional curiosities spanning several decades.

Consumer World is a long-running consumer advocacy hub curating breaking consumer news, shopping bargains, scam warnings, and price comparison tools all in one place. Founded in 1995, it covers everything from shrinkflation and fake product alerts to mortgage rates and prescription drug discounts, making it a go-to resource for savvy shoppers and consumer rights advocates.