Posts Tagged reading

This lovely science-fiction-story-as-blog story, and the story-about-the-story, is hitting me strangely hard today.

https://www.tor.com/2020/04/14/didnt-i-write-this-story-already-when-your-fictional-pandemic-becomes-reality/

You can find the original story here: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_11_15/

Was pretty excited last month to see Caitlin Doughty talk about her new book Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? at The Strand bookstore. There’s video of it!

https://youtu.be/6ESOhFiZ9ps

Facebook shuts down a tool used to find human rights abuses.

For a company whose main problem is the public finding out about human rights abuses (and genocide) facilitated with its platform, or Russian attacks on American society, or the prevalence and activities of nationalist and neo-Nazi hate groups on Facebook, or any number of things, it’s a brutal tactic from a company that will apparently protect its own interests at any cost.

Another great cybersecurity roundup from @violetblue.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-11-27548521

Always enjoy @violetblue spilling the cybersecuritea. Click for the Baltimore ransomware drama. Stay for the thrice-dunked Facebook. Then, learn how moralizing capitalists make bank creeping on and silencing sex workers.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-4-27371489

Feeling pretty empowered by understanding more of the nuts-and-bolts of working with SVGs. Inspires me to work on improving my design skills and sensibilities.

A great intro to the power of service workers, a great collection of resources for learning more, and a great inspiration for improving the things I build on the web!