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🔗 linkblog: The Real Monsters of Street Level Surveillance'
This is cute, but also Ring doorbells are seriously the thing that scares me most on Halloween.
🔗 linkblog: For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment'
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
🔗 linkblog: Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic Over WordPress Chaos'
Wild to read this so soon after finishing Character Limit, because I’m getting very similar vibes.
🔗 linkblog: Baseball Baptisms and the British Mission'
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.
🔗 linkblog: McConnell called Trump 'stupid' and 'despicable' in private after the 2020 election, a new book says'
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.
🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'
RSS forever! I love RSS, I love Cory Doctorow, and I love this post.
🔗 linkblog: Trump Escalates Threats to Political Opponents He Deems the ‘Enemy’'
Like so many other things, this alone should disqualify him. Gift link.
🔗 linkblog: Invitation to Commit Scientific Fraud – Ryan and Debi & Toren'
What a gross offer to receive.
🔗 linkblog: WordPress.org’s latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin'
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.
🔗 linkblog: We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker.'
This is terrifying—but needs more attention.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter Barred Them. What Happened When Elon Musk Brought Them Back?'
I don’t understand why anyone would stay on Twitter at this point, unless they’re staying for the nonsense. gift link
🔗 linkblog: Steam Finally Makes It Clear You Don’t Own Your Games'
Look, I like Steam, but it’s still a sucky business model, like so many others today,
🔗 linkblog: ‘The Community Is In Chaos:’ WordPress.org Now Requires You Denounce Affiliation With WP Engine To Log In'
This was a hell of a semester to decide to not dedicate a whole lecture to WordPress in my CMS class.
🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk Is Now Seizing Other People’s Twitter Accounts To Promote Donald Trump'
Masnick is excellent at balancing “Musk has a right to do this” with “the hypocrisy is shameful.”
🔗 linkblog: Michigan Father Dies in Israeli Airstrike in Lebanon, Family Says'
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
🔗 linkblog: State Education Department Seeks Bids for 55,000 Classroom Bibles - Oklahoma Watch'
This makes a bad story even worse. What a joke.
🔗 linkblog: Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats'
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…
🔗 linkblog: Trump condemned for suggesting ‘one really violent day’ to combat crime'
How is this guy a legitimate candidate?
🔗 linkblog: More academic publishers are doing AI deals'
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.
🔗 linkblog: If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed'
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.
🔗 linkblog: Rep. Clay Higgins Posts, Then Deletes, Racist Comments About Haitians'
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
🔗 linkblog: I Love My Kids, But I Sometimes Regret Having Them - The Rev. Dev.'
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.