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January, 2025

On its birthday, The 19th announces a new model for funding media

An endowment for reporting gender, politics, and policy ...
January 28, 2025

In the face of this, who do you want to be?

The time for hypotheticals is gone. It's time to decide. ...
January 24, 2025

Seeking trans-friendly employers who sponsor visas

Nobody should have to move to another country to be themselves. However, I’ve spoken to multiple people who feel they need to move away from the US in order to avoid harms caused by the new administration’s executive orders that target trans people. Exactly how to do this is sometimes opaque ...
January 21, 2025

The indie web should be a universe of discovery

In Oxford, my hometown, the flagship Blackwell’s bookshop looks like any ordinary bookstore at ground level. But if you go down a set of stairs, you find yourself in the Norrington Room: one of the largest rooms full of books in the world. The shelves expand out around you to encompass ...
January 12, 2025

Building an open web that protects us from harm

It's not enough to be neutral. Platform and protocol owners should be allies. ...
January 11, 2025

46 books

Previous birthday posts: 45 wishes, 44 thoughts about the future, 43 things, 42 / 42 admissions, 41 things. One. I lie in bed as Ma read Dodie Smith’s ‌The Hundred and One Dalmatians to me. It was the fifth, and last, straight time; after this, she would finally put her foot ...
January 7, 2025