Non-theist Christian and elder in Community of Christ. I have Mormon roots and aspirations to do better with justice and peacemaking—especially in the digital sphere but also in Lexington, Kentucky, the U.S., and the world more broadly.

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🔗 linkblog: just read 'How hospitals inflate bills for healthy births by labeling them 'emergencies' : Shots - Health News : NPR'


So much ugh.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Viewing website HTML code is not illegal or “hacking,” prof. tells Missouri gov. | Ars Technica'


This story just gets more and more ridiculous.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Employees pleaded with Facebook to stop letting politicians bend rules | Ars Technica'


Facebook might need more moderators, but they shouldn’t be company executives…

🔗 linkblog: just read 'She Is Breaking Glass Ceilings in Space, but Facing Sexism on Earth - The New York Times'


Sobering read.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Trump’s site Truth Social broke software rules, says copyleft group - The Verge'


Do not mess with open licensing.


Just finished Cory Doctorow’s Attack Surface, a few months after reading Little Brother and Homeland. It is the addition to that series we need right now.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Texas Removed an L.G.B.T.Q. Resource Page After a Candidate Complained - The New York Times'


This is frustrating and sad.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Missouri governor threatens reporter who discovered state site spilling private info - The Verge'


If viewing the source code of a web page is hacking, my black hat skills just went up a thousandfold.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'U.S. Antigovernment Groups Are Influencing the French Far Right - The New York Times'


This is worrying. There’s a long tradition of open far right movements in France, and if the U.S has something to teach them, it should make us think twice about what’s happening here.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Facebook whistleblower hearing: France Haugen finally got Republicans to stop yapping about anti-conservative bias.'


Interesting article. I’m particularly interested in the idea of focusing on algorithms rather than content.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Facebook’s outage likely cost the company over $60 million | Ars Technica'


A compelling reminder that social media companies make money from eyeballs pointed at screens.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Opinion | Don’t Let Amazon Eat the Film Industry - The New York Times'


The more pies Amazon has its fingers in, the more concerning it becomes.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Amazon Astro Leaks Data All Over New Carpet'


Well played, The Onion. Well played.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Fairphone’s latest sustainable smartphone comes with a five-year warranty - The Verge'


Really want to see Fairphone start selling in U.S.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Majority of Americans support national data privacy standards: poll | TheHill'


This means we’re going to get some soon, right?

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Despite Arrests And Setbacks, Far-Right Proud Boys Press New Ambitions : NPR'


Worrying read but important one.


Something feels characteristically Utah about this Park City company trying to turn graham crackers into a rugged frontier food while conveniently omitting its origins in the temperance movement.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'IRS Reports Your Taxes Specifically Were Spent To Drone-Strike Kids'


I get that this is The Onion and that this isn’t how taxes work, but this article still fees like a gut punch.


I think you can be glad a villain got unmasked but uneasy that Batman’s the one who did it.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Pentagon Acknowledges Aug. 29 Drone Strike in Afghanistan Was Tragic Mistake - The New York Times'


What a heartbreaking story. We need to rethink our relationship with drones—and war.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Apple and Google Remove ‘Navalny’ Voting App in Russia - The New York Times'


This is maybe the best example I’ve seen of app stores being a problematic model. Is there an Android app that could be sideloaded? Definitely isn’t for Apple, and that’s shameful.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Political parties complained Facebook’s algorithm promoted polarization - The Verge'


What a read. Platforms don’t just host content, they manipulate that content.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Secret Facebook program reportedly let celebrities avoid moderation - The Verge'


Bookmarking this for my content management class.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Opinion | Which Victims of 9/11 Get Remembered? - The New York Times'


A very powerful read. I was not politically confident as a teenager, but I remember already feeing uneasy with how the attacks were being evoked within a couple of years. A couple of decades later, I think we all need to be asking the hard questions.

🔗 linkblog: just read 'How Wikipedia grew up with the war on terror.'


Great read on what’s become perhaps the most defensible platform on the social web (though Wikipedia certainly still has its problems).