Late May link roundup
W3C today announced that Seth Dobbs is stepping down as CEO of the organization.
— W3C leadership transition.
When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break, by Dave Rupert.
Understanding age assurance accuracy, by ekr.
The average quality of documentation available for most tech is abysmal.
— Iris Meredith
“No way to prevent this” say users of only package manager where this regularly happens, by Xe Iaso, via Faisal.
IANAL, but I enjoyed reading Ava’s zine about personal websites and the law (also available as PDF, TIFF, and PNG).
SF Camera, the latest experimental camera app from (optional.is), is super fun to play with.
Where I grew up, to hosey something means to stake a claim or reserve a right to [the thing]; to choose [the thing]; [or] the claim so made.
(Dictionary of American Regional English)
The California equivalent is to call dibs on something.
What do they say where you’re from?
Stephen Colbert, by John Dickerson, via Eryn.
There Is No Such Thing As Centrism, by
Denny Carter:
Americans don't want Democrats to make policy like Republicans. They want them to fight like Republicans.
The proposed arch obscures the Lincoln Memorial, built to honor the president who steered the country safely through the Civil War, but perfectly frames Arlington House, the mansion built by enslaved Americans and once owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The arch does not frame the nation’s honored dead, but frames instead the home of the man who led the armies of the Confederacy that killed them.
They Want Us Dead, by Josh Caress, published by Luke O’Neil.
The People Deserve a Guillotine Emoji, by Samantha Cole. See also On The Fuel Efficiency of Launching My Enemies Into The Sun, by Dustin Gierratio.
The quiet grief of adult friendship, by Pranav Jain, via Kottke.
Tenderly Tracking My Husband, by Caroline Bailey, via Kottke. Heartbreaking.
What’s left to say, by Iris Meredith.
The Eternal Sloptember, by George Hotz, also via Faisal.
All of my peers (bar the ones that work at Google) are shattered in a way I’ve never seen before. I don’t know where we go from here.
Clanker: A Word For The Machine, by Armin Ronacher.
Je n’ai pas mentionné le sujet chaud du jour, mais j’y pense. Et peu importe son actualité car cet état de fait existe à tous les niveaux de notre société. Le supermarché ou le jardin. Le préfabriqué ou le maçonné. L’ordinateur ou la machine à écrire. Le framework ou le code vanilla. La lampe électrique ou la bougie. Le robinet ou le puits. Le C ou le langage machine. L’ATM ou le guichet bancaire. La carte de crédit ou le paiement liquide. L’automobile ou le vélo.
Tous, absolument tous, ont des conséquences sur l’environnement, sur le politique, sur le social, sur le vivre ensemble.
Craft Is Not Culture, by Naz Hamid.
Wake up, babe! The first leonine encyclical just dropped: Magnifica Humanitas.
‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Human Toll of the Catholic Church’s Trans Healthcare Ban, by David Forbes.
Body of Missing Trans College Student Murry Foust Found by Search Party, by Samantha Allen.
Omar Thomas, Composer of Piece Banned by Wisconsin School Board, Conducted Students at Local Church, by Quispe López. Here’s the performance:
Community leaders outline their vision for Ireland’s trans healthcare system, by Sarah McKenna Barry.
"The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times." Butler said. "So the TERFs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people."
Anti trans organisations exerting powerful influence over media and politics, new analysis reveals, a report from Amnesty International UK.
Sharp increase in homophobic and transphobic bullying recorded in UK schools, by Michael Harris.
Labour's bathroom policy is significantly more bigoted, invasive, and restrictive towards trans people than anything that any American Republican red state has managed to implement. Labour, by implementing this policy, and for their earlier banning of gender affirming care for trans youth, are measurably more extreme on trans issues than the Republican party in the US.
DOJ’s fight against trans medical care in prison is a fight to erase trans people in the law, by Chris Geidner.
Federal employees to be fully barred from gender affirming care coverage, starting next year, by Jane Migliara Brigham.
These 8 House Democrats Voted for the Republican Party’s “Don’t Say Trans” Bill, by Dawn Ennis. Quislings, the lot of them.
Lawsuit Challenging Idaho’s Bathroom Bill Dismissed After Student Plaintiff Dies by Suicide, by Mathew Rodriguez.
Indiana is trying to undo court-approved birth record changes for transgender people, by Zak Cassel.
Maine Trans Sports/Bathroom Ban Referendum Invalid Over Signature Forgery Concerns And Improper Gathering, by Erin Reed.
Also by Erin: CA Gov Candidate Tom Steyer Calls Out Dems Capitulating On Trans People: “I’m Totally In Favor Of Trans Athletes”.
I’ve been devouring Páraic Kerrigan’s Reeling in the Queers that Gillian loaned me the other day.