Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “link”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Refuge In Kakistocracy'
- kudos:Interested by Ken’s take here, even if it doesn’t necessarily make me feel better about gestures at everything. Also, this line cracked me up: Pete Hegseth’s chief qualification to be Secretary of Defense is that Trump saw him on the teevee a lot and his tattoos are not, technically, Nazi symbols. link to “Refuge In Kakistocracy”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'I Miss What The Mandalorian Was'
- kudos:Excellent article that sums up a lot of my thinking on this show. link to “I Miss What The Mandalorian Was”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'A classic that really made me laugh this morning: Pachelbel’...'
- kudos:Nearly spit out my lunch while watching this! link to “A classic that really made me laugh this morning: Pachelbel’…”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'And Yet It Moves'
- kudos:I don’t agree with Ken on everything, but I always appreciate his perspective. I could quibble about some of his finer points here, but I think this is worth a read. link to “And Yet It Moves”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web'
- kudos:Well, this sucks. link to “Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
- kudos:I appreciate these thoughts from Doctorow. I understand the excitement around Bluesky, I’m happy to follow people there, and I will likely lean into it more as a POSSE vector. That said, I still don’t know that it’s what I want the future of social media to look like. link to “Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Beshear calls for electing president by popular vote, says it would be better for Kentucky • Kentucky Lantern'
- kudos:Andy is a good one. link to “Beshear calls for electing president by popular vote, says it would be better for Kentucky • Kentucky Lantern”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says'
- kudos:I stopped using Strava over five years ago when the stories were about secret military bases being identified through the service were coming out. link to “Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Long lines reported on first day of early voting in Kentucky'
- kudos:Standing in one of these lines right now! Fingers crossed for the future. 🤞🏻😬🤞🏻 link to “Long lines reported on first day of early voting in Kentucky”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles'
- kudos:Some powerful stuff in here. link to “A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report'
- kudos:Rank hypocrisy. I don’t necessarily think Musk should have been deported way back when, but I think he should be called out on this. link to “Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report”
🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The Real Monsters of Street Level Surveillance'
- kudos:This is cute, but also Ring doorbells are seriously the thing that scares me most on Halloween. link to “The Real Monsters of Street Level Surveillance”
🔗 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”