Mid-March link roundup
Kathleen and Shawn’s 11th Anniversary Edition
Time pressure in dungeon adventures is a bad idea, by Alex.
Also by Alex: The cost of social media.
In honor of , Mr. Paul F. Thompkins’ cake versus pie bit:
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security has issued its third Red Flag Alert (RFA) regarding the genocidal anti-trans agenda of the Trump Administration.
The Normative Mask: How the Supreme Court and the Federal Judiciary Built a Dual State for Trans Erasure, by Alejandra Caraballo.
Anti-trans hate groups petitioning FDA for registry of trans women, crackdown on transition, newly revealed document shows, by Artemis T. Douglas and Jane Migliara Brigham.
DOJ Takes Aim At Off-Label Prescriptions in Gender-Affirming Care Fight, by Garnet Henderson.
The United Kingdom continues to serve as the launchpad for anti-trans pseudoscience worldwide.
— Erin Reed, in New NHS England Review Excluded 97% Of All Trans Studies To Say Care Doesn’t Work.
Also by Erin:
- 4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To “Appreciate Their Sex” Via Care Bans.
- Federal Judge Rules Aetna’s Blanket Denial Of Facial Surgery For Trans Women Is Sex Discrimination.
- Florida Passes Bill That Lets DeSantis Remove Local Elected Officials From Office For “Promoting” Pride.
And some posts not by, but via Erin:
- She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway, by Nate Zuke.
- Indiana’s Anti-Trans Attorney General is Preparing to Revoke Trans People’s Documents, by Aleksandra Vaca.
Reynolds signs Iowa law barring local trans civil rights protections, by Stephen Gruber-Miller.
Billie Jean Sweeney violates Betteridge’s law of headlines by asking: Does The New York Times Want to Eradicate Trans People?
A World of Little Trump Puppet Regimes: Welcome to the Trump Bloc, by Justin Ling. See also Trump’s Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers, by Nick Turse.
Former military lawyers say use of JAG lawyers in Minnesota violates the Posse Comitatus Act, by Chris Geidner.
My journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump’s America, by Steven Scherer.
Les collaborateurs, par Frédéric Lordon, via Karl. Et pour les victimes de crimes racistes ?
Also via Karl: I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lousy new perspective on librarianship, by Hugh Rundle.
Gwtar: a static efficient single-file HTML format, by Gwern, via Leah. Very cool.
The web should remain anonymous by default, by mt.
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity, by Matheus Lima, via Jeremy. Anyone can add complexity. It takes experience and confidence to leave it out.
The Artisanal Web, by Carter Baxter, also via Jeremy.
I am in an abusive relationship with the technology industry, by Salma Alam-Naylor, also via Jeremy.
Grief and the AI Split, by Les Orchard, via Gruber.
Working with agents doesn’t feel like flow, by Bill de hÓra.