Society & Culture
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https://radical-openness.org/
Art Meets Radical Openness (AMRO) is a biennial festival held in Linz, Austria, dedicated to art, hacktivism, and open culture, bringing together lectures, workshops, concerts, and exhibitions across multiple venues. The festival fosters critical discussion about technological monoculture and digital rights, positioning itself as a community gathering point for artists, activists, and open-source advocates.
http://medievalgenealogy.org.uk/vch/index.shtml
A comprehensive place index for the Victoria County History, an ongoing century-long project to publish detailed histories of every English county. Researchers into medieval English genealogy, family history, and local history will find this an invaluable reference for navigating over 200 published volumes organized by county and parish.
http://hymnsofthespirit.org/
Created by Rev. Scott Wells, this site is dedicated to the 1937 joint Unitarian-Universalist hymnal and service book 'Hymns of the Spirit,' offering orders of service, worship texts, and liturgical scholarship. It includes fascinating posts tracing connections between Unitarian, Universalist, and Reform Jewish liturgical traditions, making it a niche but valuable reference for historical liberal Protestant worship.
https://okgenweb.net/
OKGenWeb is the Oklahoma chapter of the USGenWeb Project, providing free online genealogy resources organized by all 77 Oklahoma counties and Indian Territory tribal nations. Researchers can explore records covering cemeteries, marriages, military service, slave narratives, land openings, and Native American heritage spanning dozens of tribes.
https://tranarchy-webring.neocities.org/
The Tranarchy Webring is an international collective connecting leftist and trans-friendly websites, uniting creators who oppose fascism and oppressive ideologies. Visitors can explore member sites or apply to join this politically engaged community ring.
https://tertullian.org/
The Tertullian Project is a comprehensive scholarly resource dedicated to the ancient Christian Latin writer Tertullian, offering Latin texts, translations in multiple languages, manuscript studies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of his works. Visitors can explore every known writing attributed to Tertullian alongside patrological context, manuscript traditions, and centuries of scholarly reception.
https://casparoesterheld.com/
Caspar Oesterheld's blog explores the intersections of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and effective altruism, with deep dives into decision theory, cooperative AI, and game-theoretic concepts like the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Posts are technically rigorous and research-oriented, making it a compelling read for anyone interested in AI alignment, rational agency, and the philosophical underpinnings of multi-agent systems.
https://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/
Principia Cybernetica Web is the online home of an international academic project that attempts to build a comprehensive philosophical world-view grounded in evolutionary cybernetics and systems theory. With over two thousand pages covering epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, memetics, the Global Brain concept, and collaborative knowledge networks, it stands as one of the most ambitious philosophy-meets-cybernetics resources on the old web.
https://mexicolore.co.uk/
Mexicolore is a London-based educational resource dedicated to the ancient cultures of Mexico, covering Aztec and Maya civilization, religion, art, music, and daily life in rich detail. Founded by Ian and Graciela, the site has served schools since 1980 and also offers consultancy, costumes, pinatas, and a unique photo library for events and educators.
https://cyberpunk.cl/
A minimalist cyberpunk-aesthetic personal page built around leet-speak text art, protocol references, and the visual language of underground hacker and cyberpunk culture. The site's sparse content layers internet protocol codes (SMTP, XMPP, PGP, IPFS, Tor onion) with themes of alienation, paranoia, and isolation in a style that feels like a terminal readout from a dystopian future.