21 June link roundup
Over at The Conversation,
Dexter—an 11 year old from Las Vegas—asked Who was the first transgender person?
The answer, by Ky Merkley PhD and Nick Winters PhD, is well worth a read.
Storied Colors, via Jeremy. The site’s design is lovely, including the design of its URLs (e.g. https://). I should try to remember to use it as a tag space.
Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles, by Declan Chidlow, via Andy Baio.
Development dependencies considered harmful, by Henri Bergius.
The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows, by Andy Baio.
Improvements to Web for AI Should Benefit All Users, by Jason Grigsby.
Imagining human-oriented online posts, by Tracy Durnell, via Frances Crossley.
The case for an accessibility designer vibe coding when all his coworkers are also vibe coding, by Eric Bailey.
And via Eric: If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort, by Tom Bedor.
Also via Eric: new england is still a calvinist experiment, by spencer pope.
Rebecca Solnit asks: In the Dark Times Will There Also Be Singing?
The Cult of the Enhanced Self, by Derek Thompson, via Matt Muir.
Textrovert, by Willow.
Amnesty International exposed years of anti-trans reporting at four UK newspapers. They ignored it, by Gareth Davies. See also How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People, by Alejandra Caraballo. Of course, this is as it should be. After all, it is journalism’s sacred duty to endanger the lives of as many trans people as possible.
Trans prisoners’ medical care remains protected after a flurry of court rulings on Wednesday, by Chris Geidner.
The US Government Is Engaged In A Modern Red Scare, And WPATH Is Its Latest Target, by Erin Reed.
Also by Erin: Federal Court Order Means Idaho Trans People Must Use Single-User Facilities When Available Or Could Face Arrest. See also Idaho trans bathroom ban still forcing its way into law despite partial block, by Jane Migliara Brigham.
Intersex Teacher Fired in Florida After Parent Falsely Claims He Is Trans, ACLU Says, by s. baum.
New Oklahoma law disrupts gender-affirming care for transgender adults, by Jillian Taylor.
Gender-Affirming Care Providers Aren’t Giving Up, But They’re Getting Harder to Find, by Garnet Henderson.
Forced labor in concentration camps, by Andrea Pitzer, via Kottke.
The United States has capitulated to Iran. There is a “deal,” which has been signed, on terms that can only be described as those of complete Iranian victory[…]
War, as some people apparently needed to learn, is not about the pleasure one takes in watching things blow up. It is politics by other means. To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States.
The Pro-Pandemic Administration, by Justin Ling.
[The] suggestion that the allegations against [Graham Platner] reflect the sort of behavior we should expect from “ordinary” or working class men raises some serious questions. What are women in this arrangement? Are they not also working class people deserving of the kind of solidarity some progressives seem determined to extend to Platner in perpetuity?
The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster, by Karl Bode, via Kottke.