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The Right Click Save As Crowd Just Became the You Wouldn’t Download a Car Crowd

📅 July 27, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

The same developers who mocked NFT bagholders with ‘right click save as’ are now blocking AI scrapers by locking out human users. In the war against AI, the open web is being dismantled by its own champions—and the collateral damage is you.

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You’re Wrong About That ‘National Ballroom’ Website. It’s Not a Joke — It’s a Confession.

📅 July 26, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

The ‘We Need a National Ballroom’ website is a viral joke, but its real message is a devastating critique of modern digital activism. We create websites for problems we could solve in the real world. The joke is on us: we mistake online presence for offline progress. This article unpacks the irony and asks: What are you building instead of a ballroom?

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