A somewhat hopeful link roundup for once
on the occasion of my father’s birthday
Zohran Mamdani is the Mayor-elect of New York. This, among many other hopeful results this election night, is a a stunning rebuke of anti-trans politics
, and more generlaly to the politics that have dominated America over the last decade. This is what hope feels like.
Ten million Californians came out to stand up to Donald Trump. A million New Yorkers voted for Mamdani. Two million backed Democrats in New Jersey and Virginia. Diverse candidates, diverse issues, overlapping but distinct priorities. It was a good night for big-D Democrats and for little-d democracy. Perhaps the party should sew those things together.
Make No Mistake: Trump Is an Albatross, by Jamelle Bouie.
Fire The Consultants, by Katelyn Burns.
Erica Deuso Makes Trans History, Elected as Pennsylvania Mayor, by Samantha Riedel.
Three articles by Erin Reed:
- Every Trans Suicide Is A Murder By Those In Power
- Trump Admin Attempts To Ban Trans Youth Care Nationwide With New Federal Rules
- SCOTUS Rules Against Trans People’s Passport Gender Markers In Shadow Docket Ruling
On that last one, see also SCOTUS lets Trump administration implement anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy, by Chris Geidner.
Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made, a scathing obituary by Albert Burneko.
Over the weekend, images of an obscenely wealthy Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago hit social media. Half naked dancers dressed in plumes of feathers and sparkles gyrated and wriggled around for the nation’s richest and most powerful people. Girls danced around in oversized cocktail glasses while the men hobnobbed with the president.
That same day, SNAP benefits for the poorest people in the country, which represents 10% of all non-restaurant food revenue, expired. That means American families will go hungry. The party was a breathtaking display of greed without a hint of consideration for optics.
Now they’re just rubbing our faces in their wealth. These people rule over us little folk with no care for our lives.
Fuck your Gatsby party, you tone-deaf fuck, by Jeff Tiedrich.
Anti-Trans Congresswoman Nancy Mace Now Pushing Anti-Gay Slogans From The 80s, by s. baum.
Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades, by Stephen Burgen. ¡Solo es nuestro deseo acabar con el fascismo!
Software can be finished, by Ross Wintle, via David Larlet.
Parenthetical Asidenotes and Custom Asidenotes, by Eric.
GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.
Heather asks: Can Standards Survive Trade Wars and Sovereignty Battles?
WebKit Features for Safari 26.1, by Jen.
As I will try to show, the present government invites a terror attack. Most of the people directing the relevant agencies are incompetent; the next few layers down have been purged in culture wars; much the remaining personnel have resigned, been fired, or are demoralized; resources have been diverted away from terror prevention; Americans has been distracted by fiction and chaos; and potential attackers have been encouraged.
And so we have to think — now — about what would follow such an attack. Musk, Trump, Vance, and the rest would try to exploit the moment to undo remaining American freedoms.
Job cuts in October hit highest level for the month in 22 years, Challenger says, by Jeff Cox.
Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the Theory of Everything, by Drs. Mir Faizal, Lawrence M. Krauss, Arshid Shabir, and Francesco Marino, published in the Journal of Holography Applications in Physics.
Study: Why Can’t San Francisco Plant More Street Trees?, by Roger Rudick.
Every Tree Can Be a Buddha, by Kottke
In case you need it, here’s a list of Japanese terms that appear on washing machines and dryers.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue, by Allegra Kirkland, via Eric Bailey.
Une petite histoire de listes, by Arthur Perret, via Karl.
En étant en train de lire et voir Fondation, je me dis que rien n’a changé depuis des décennies. On aspire — à travers la SF ou des choix de vie — à faire partie de la marge qui transforme, à vivre à une époque charnière, à être le changement qui n’est de fait qu’une continuité tant qu’elle n’est pas racontée comme étant un changement.
Toujours se méfier du biais des conteurs.
You need to use the tools of the job you’ve chosen to do, by Baldur Bjarnason.