link roundup
A gcéad pholasaí Gaeilge riamh faofa ag Comhairle Cathrach Bhéal Feirste.en: Belfast City Council approves first ever Irish language policy.
When your website makes you smile, by James.
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It, by Julian Lucas. Also: Sir Tim Berners-Lee to Receive the 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award, by Chris Freeland.
A threat model for accessibility on the web, a brilliant piece by my dear Alice.
Brian’s been thinking about how much stuff there is on the web platform that needs more attention than it gets in practice. And despite “testing infrastructure” (rightly) appearing on his list, WPT has made things so much better than we had it in the bad old days. Read How a Shared Test Suite Fixed the Web’s Biggest Problems, by Mary Branscombe, for more.
If I get killed by Israeli bombs or my family is harmed, I blame Bari Weiss @bariweiss and her likes.
Paramount Buys The Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News, by Benjamin Mullin, Lauren Hirsch, and Michael M. Grynbaum. Bari Weiss, a founder of The Free Press, will become editor in chief of CBS News.
Who is Bari Weiss, the right-wing anti-trans queer woman being given the keys to CBS News?, by Christopher Wiggins.
A parade in Oakland, by Bryan Cantrill.
Over 80% of trans workers have experienced discrimination or harassment, report finds, by Jo Yurcaba, via Gillian Branstetter.
Some good news and some bad news from s. baum:
- We Are Finally Free of Oklahoma’s Anti-Trans Superintendent Ryan Walters
- Texas Universities Are Now Banning Professors From Even Acknowledging Trans People Exist
- Kansas Supreme Court Delivers Big Win For Driver’s License Gender Markers
On Being Labeled a Terrorist in Transphobic America, by Gabe Dunn.
ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program, by Dan Gooding, via EITM.
I cannot express how tired i am of thinking about, worrying about, talking about, and stressing about whether it’s time for me to flee the United States while I have the means and opportunity to do so.
Two pieces from Margaret Hetherman:
- 16 States Sue HHS To Protect Funding For Sex Ed Programs That Recognize Gender Diversity
- Federal Investigation Into Girls’ Sports Concludes Minnesota Violated Title Ⅸ (by being inclusive of trans student athletes)
The Government Is Shut Down. What It Means For The LGBTQ+ Appropriations Fight, by Erin Reed.
cis people don’t understand trans people have been living with a gun to our head for nine months and every so often the guy holding it yells BANG and we’re expected to go on as normal
How the Supreme Court’s conversion therapy case could reshape LGBTQ+ protections across America, also by Christopher Wiggins.
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed, by Nikole Hannah-Jones, via Kottke.
When shooters are MAGA and anti-LGBTQ+, the right suddenly loses its appetite for conspiracy theories, by John Casey.
Like a lot of you, I watched the conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein. I’m not going to write yet another take, but I recommend Andrea Pitzer’s (also via Kottke).
For as long as I’ve been alive, American presidents have defined tyrants by their willingness to use military force against their own people in reprisal for political opposition. […] A leader who uses military force to suppress their political opposition forfeits the right to govern. You could call this the “tyrant test,” and Trump is already failing it.
Judge William Young’s ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era, by Chris Geidner.
It’s Extremely Divisive of You to Tell the Truth, by Chas GIllespie.
The corrosive rigidity of fascism, by Philip Bump. Creating a more perfect union means fighting one battle after another, indefinitely.
It’s up to us, the good people of the United States, to put a stop to this. We must take to the streets every day and keep showing up until those in charge are forced to change. We must install a new federal government as soon as possible and build new systems and institutions and rules of governance to prevent an authoritarian executive branch, along with an acquiescing judicial branch from doing this ever again.
Those who made the lawless plans to do this to the US must be prosecuted and never be allowed to hold office again. The agents and military members who are following these unlawful orders must also face legal consequences of their own.
America’s Zombie Democracy, by George Packer. [Democracies] erode. Opposition parties, the judiciary, the press, and civil-society groups aren’t destroyed, but over time they lose their life, staggering on like zombie institutions, giving the impression that democracy is still alive.
A fertile corpse, by Steve Randy Waldman. The Democratic Party should campaign and run on a single issue: Blowing up the two-party system.
Tristan demande : Pourquoi les investisseurs font-ils de l’IA une bulle ?
He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks, by and via Miles Klee. It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.
Tæpir tíu þúsund strandaglópar vegna falls Play, by Brynjólfur Þór Guðmundsson, Hugrún Hannesdóttir Diego, Erla María Markúsdóttir and Guðmundur Atli Hlynsson, via Carly Sagan:
Þeir hafa ákveðið að hætta starfsemi.
- Allar flugferðir hafa verið felldar niður.
- Þúsundir farþega þurfa að endurskipuleggja heimför.
- Um 400 manns missa vinnuna.
S.F. was supposed to have zero traffic deaths by now. What happened?, by Sage Ríos Mace. We know it’s possible: Hoboken’s done it.
Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet, by Samanth Subramanian, via Jeremy.
Citizen Scientists Spot a Perfect Extragalactic Venn Diagram, by 이 가영, via Kottke.