Pet Door Show’s Up-and-Coming Artists You Should Know in 2022
My sister’s epic list of new, independent artists that are worth a listen. Amazing as always. [Link]
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This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
A treatise on love and conflict wrapped up in beautiful, occasionally wryly hilarious prose and a science fiction conceit. It took me a little while for this to hook me, but when it did, I found myself wanting a lot more. It stops just as the story becomes really interesting;
Reading, watching, playing, using: December, 2021
This is my monthly roundup of the books, articles, and streaming media I found interesting. Here's my list for December, 2021. Books Foundation, by Isaac Asimov. This was a groundbreaking, genre-defining book when it was written, and some of the ideas remain outstanding. Reading it this year was
Betty White, a TV Fixture for Seven Decades, Is Dead at 99
Such a loss; such a life. [Link]
Fairness Friday: Bread and Roses Community Fund
I’m posting Fairness Fridays: a new community social justice organization each week. I donate to each featured organization. If you feel so inclined, please join me. This week I’m donating to Bread and Roses Community Fund. Based in Philadelphia, the fund is “a multiracial and cross-class community of
Reporter likely to be charged for using "view source" feature on web browser
“The reporter discovered that the source code of the website contained Social Security numbers of educators. The reporter alerted the state about the social security numbers. After the state removed the numbers from the web page, the Post-Dispatch reported the vulnerability. Soon after, Governor Parson, "who has often tangled
Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
“A blockchain is a worse database. It is slower, requires way more storage and compute, doesn’t have customer support, etc. And yet it has one dimension along which it is radically different. No single entity or small group of entities controls it – something people try to convey, albeit poorly,
Hopes for 2022
I don’t know that any of us need a review of the year. I’m also not up for making predictions for next year: I just don’t know what’s going to happen. So instead, here are some hopes I have for 2022. I don’t think they’
The Asymmetry of Open Source
“With the recent revival of the discussion about sustaining open source spurred on by multiple severe CVEs in a popular logging library, and with so many hot takes clamoring for more funding—some calling on companies, others on maintainers—I wanted to write about the problem and its solutions more
Upgrading my avatar
For a while now, I've been using this drawing of me by Hallie Bateman as my avatar: I love it, particularly because I'm a big fan of Hallie's work. But it's also not quite me, exactly: you get the same whimsical drawing
Thoughts and actions for the week of December 27, 2021
Thoughts 1. It’s an obvious statement to make, but 2021 was … quite a year. Leaving aside my own personal family health journey, which I’ve written a lot about here, we saw an attempt at a fascist coup, and the second year of a pandemic that has now claimed
The Future Is Not Only Useless, It’s Expensive
“It’s tempting to say they suck the way everything sucks now, but it’s more like how one particular strain of American aesthetics has sucked for the last 20 years. NFTs are the human capacity for visual expression as understood by the guy at the vape store.” This piece