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🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment'
- kudos:There are countless GOP politicians and voters who believe Harris is unqualified for the job for lesser (and often exaggerated or fabricated controversies), and yet none of this seems to bother them. gift link link to “For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos'
- kudos:Wild to read this so soon after finishing Character Limit, because I’m getting very similar vibes. link to “Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Baseball Baptisms and the British Mission'
- kudos:Fascinating look at a controversial element in Mormon history. I wish more of the data here were firm rather than anecdotal—I think this topic is enough that it could be its own book if there were enough data (made) available. link to “Baseball Baptisms and the British Mission”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'McConnell called Trump 'stupid' and 'despicable' in private after the 2020 election, a new book says'
- kudos:McConnell comes so close to having a conscience and then seems to always bail when it becomes inconvenient to him. That makes him more of a disappointment than if he showed no moral awareness at all. link to “McConnell called Trump ‘stupid’ and ‘despicable’ in private after the 2020 election, a new book says”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:RSS forever! I love RSS, I love Cory Doctorow, and I love this post. link to “Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Trump Escalates Threats to Political Opponents He Deems the ‘Enemy’'
- kudos:Like so many other things, this alone should disqualify him. Gift link. link to “Trump Escalates Threats to Political Opponents He Deems the ‘Enemy’”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Invitation to Commit Scientific Fraud – Ryan and Debi & Toren'
- kudos:What a gross offer to receive. link to “Invitation to Commit Scientific Fraud – Ryan and Debi & Toren”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin'
- kudos:I am slowly writing something related to open source governance this semester, so naturally this story keeps getting wilder to give me things to think about. link to “WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker.'
- kudos:This is terrifying—but needs more attention. link to “We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker.”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Twitter Barred Them. What Happened When Elon Musk Brought Them Back?'
- kudos:I don’t understand why anyone would stay on Twitter at this point, unless they’re staying for the nonsense. gift link link to “Twitter Barred Them. What Happened When Elon Musk Brought Them Back?”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Musk's Robot Tricks Were Used on Soviets in the 1950s, Too'
- kudos:A good, informing read. link to “Elon Musk’s Robot Tricks Were Used on Soviets in the 1950s, Too”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Steam Finally Makes It Clear You Don’t Own Your Games'
- kudos:Look, I like Steam, but it’s still a sucky business model, like so many others today, link to “Steam Finally Makes It Clear You Don’t Own Your Games”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on '‘The Community Is In Chaos:’ WordPress.org Now Requires You Denounce Affiliation With WP Engine To Log In'
- kudos:This was a hell of a semester to decide to not dedicate a whole lecture to WordPress in my CMS class. link to “‘The Community Is In Chaos:’ WordPress.org Now Requires You Denounce Affiliation With WP Engine To Log In”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Musk Is Now Seizing Other People’s Twitter Accounts To Promote Donald Trump'
- kudos:Masnick is excellent at balancing “Musk has a right to do this” with “the hypocrisy is shameful.” link to “Elon Musk Is Now Seizing Other People’s Twitter Accounts To Promote Donald Trump”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Michigan Father Dies in Israeli Airstrike in Lebanon, Family Says'
- kudos:This article was a one-two punch for me. I hoped that the death of a Michigander might draw more attention to victims of the conflict, but his daughter’s comment that “The fact that he was an American citizen should not make his story more important than others” quickly called me to task. Gift Link link to “Michigan Father Dies in Israeli Airstrike in Lebanon, Family Says”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'State Education Department Seeks Bids for 55,000 Classroom Bibles - Oklahoma Watch'
- kudos:This makes a bad story even worse. What a joke. link to “State Education Department Seeks Bids for 55,000 Classroom Bibles - Oklahoma Watch”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats'
- kudos:Worth reading (and bookmarking). I’ve been hesitant to make the “no, actually, Big Tech is biased against liberals” argument, but this seems a compelling datum for that conclusion… link to “Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Trump condemned for suggesting ‘one really violent day’ to combat crime'
- kudos:How is this guy a legitimate candidate? link to “Trump condemned for suggesting ‘one really violent day’ to combat crime”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'More academic publishers are doing AI deals'
- kudos:I keep thinking about the similarity of exploitation of academic labor by publishers to the exploitation of everyone’s labor by AI companies, and stories like this just make it more clear. link to “More academic publishers are doing AI deals”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed'
- kudos:I teach WordPress, and I guess I should be covering this this semester. I’ve been avoiding reading about recent drama at Automattic, but if this is a taste of it, wow, wow, wow. link to “If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Rep. Clay Higgins Posts, Then Deletes, Racist Comments About Haitians'
- kudos:Posting this as a bookmark. It’s mindboggling how overtly racist this is—and how much work the GOP will do to dismiss it as nothing. I want to be able to return back to this in the weeks and months to come, to remind myself and others just how bad things are. gift link link to “Rep. Clay Higgins Posts, Then Deletes, Racist Comments About Haitians”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'I Love My Kids, But I Sometimes Regret Having Them - The Rev. Dev.'
- kudos:It is hard to have honest conversations about the difficulty of parenting: Even in reading this post, I tensed up, because these are things you aren’t supposed to say. I’m glad someone was vulnerable enough to write this. link to “I Love My Kids, But I Sometimes Regret Having Them - The Rev. Dev.”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for trespassing on its ‘pristine’ property'
- kudos:What a wild story. link to “Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for trespassing on its ‘pristine’ property”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: Thinking the unthinkable (19 Sep 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:Compelling metaphor. link to “Pluralistic: Thinking the unthinkable (19 Sep 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Going the Distance at the Tram Driver Olympics'
- kudos:I had never heard of the tram driver Olympics before, and I love it. [gift link] link to “Going the Distance at the Tram Driver Olympics”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up'
- kudos:Taking cues from neo-Nazis is a great look for the GOP ticket. link to “Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies and emojis'
- kudos:24 hours on Elon’s Twitter feed is a great idea for a story, and I’m glad someone did it! link to “A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies and emojis”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'How Memphis became a battleground over Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer'
- kudos:Who benefits from AI? Who doesn’t? link to “How Memphis became a battleground over Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Big publishers think libraries are the enemy'
- kudos:A good take by Molly White. I remember when I stopped thinking about ebooks in terms of screens (as opposed to paper) and started thinking about them in terms of DRM (as opposed to free use). DRM helps the already powerful at the expense of everything else, and I want to do more to push back against it. link to “Big publishers think libraries are the enemy”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'What Musk's Twitter takeover could tell us about a possible government appointment'
- kudos:I’m currently reading Extremely Hardcore and can’t wait to read Character Limit. The Twitter purchase alone ought to dismiss any serious ideas that Musk could do this kind of work. link to “What Musk’s Twitter takeover could tell us about a possible government appointment”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Father of Ohio boy, 11, tells Trump and Vance to stop using son’s death for ‘political gain’'
- kudos:Good for the dad, and shame on the politicians being this terrible. link to “Father of Ohio boy, 11, tells Trump and Vance to stop using son’s death for ‘political gain’”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Musk Threatens to Impregnate Taylor Swift'
- kudos:Can something be shocking but not surprising? I’ve been thinking about this all day and still can’t believe it’s real. link to “Elon Musk Threatens to Impregnate Taylor Swift”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Fayette County schools leaving X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter'
- kudos:Wish it were for more principled reasons, but I’ll take it. link to “Fayette County schools leaving X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'What If Trump Wins?'
- kudos:It is wild—and worrying—just how close this race is. link to “What If Trump Wins?”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on '750 | What’s Brewing | Wasatch Front | Part II'
- kudos:I’m bookmarking this episode for later because it does a better job than I’ve ever heard of talking about how messy and complex and difficult it can be to have Mormon roots in Community of Christ—and it doesn’t even get into some of the “outside Utah” vs. “in Utah” dynamics that I personally think get overlooked. link to “750 | What’s Brewing | Wasatch Front | Part II”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'People are paying 'Strava mules' to do their runs for them, but why?
- kudos:This is a take on digital labor and datafication that I can honestly say I never expected. link to “People are paying “Strava mules” to do their runs for them, but why?”