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21 July link roundup

I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era, by עֹמֶר בַּרְטוֹב, via Kottke.

Confessions of an emigrant, by Elia Scotto.

In Poland, for the first time, a majority of citizens opposed accepting Ukrainian refugees – poll, by .


Being queer in Ukraine: tales of citizenship and resistance, an interview with J. Lester Feder by Connor O’Brien.

De Gezondheidsraad: Transgenderzorg voor jongeren. (via Erin Reed)

WPATH’s Fight Against the Trump Administration to Practice Medicine, and What it Means For Your Hormones, by Jane Migliara Brigham.

After Trans Athlete Bans, Heritage Foundation Sets Its Sights On Dismantling Title Ⅸ, by s. baum.

A trans ban came to rugby. Baltimore’s Ferals played on, by Kyle Goon.

Transgender employee at KU reported for using the bathroom, by Wulfe Wulfemeyer, via GO.


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Japan’s Design for Humans, by Anne Lutz Fernandez, via Kottke.

Shinjuku people and places, by Lee, via Karl.


Also via Karl: Programmation éditoriale, by Arthur Perret.

HTML Day is coming up again, on August 8th! Is there an event near you?

Bring Back Crappy Forums, by Ernie Smith, via Eric Bailey.

On the semantic web, by Karl Koch, also via Eric.


AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making, by Nikhil Suresh, via many.

When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get a page of ads, then an AI-generated answer trained on my content, then finally a link to my website. This has a devastating impact on traffic.

— Nicolas Bouliane

Two links via Faisal:

Human Emacs, from Phil et al., via sachac.


.gitignore Isn’t the Only Way To Ignore Files in Git, by Nelson Figueroa.

Streaks, by Frances Crossley.

How UI degrades over time, by Nikita Prokopov, via Gruber.


A golf course under a clear, sunny sky. A city skyline features along the horizon.
Downtown San Diego from Tobey’s 19th Hole, July 2012

John Waters on Working for Mary Oliver in Her Bookstore, an interview by , via Kottke. Speaking of Mary: Amérique primitive de Mary Oliver, by Jacques Josse, via Karl.


CSS animations, human rights, and big accessibility at the AB Web Meetup, by Hidde de Vries, about the meetup he organized while we were all in earlier this month. Speaking of which:

Webstandaarden en gezelligheid bij de W3C AB Web Meetup, door Florian Schroiff CPACC.

Making sense of ISO, IEC, and the standards maze, by Heather Flanagan.

Enthusiasm for contributing has a short shelf life. — Ben Ramsey

Leon Trampert, Lorenz Hetterich, Lukas Gerlach, Mona Schappert, Christian Rossow, and Michael Schwarz. 2025. Peripheral Instinct: How External Devices Breach Browser Sandboxes. In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025 (WWW ’25), April 28–May 2, 2025, Sydney, NSW, Australia. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3696410.3714637

, by mt.


Best Worst Headline of the Week goes to Orange Line riders once again yell phooey, after some signals again go kablooey, by .

Atlanta’s New Bike Barriers Are Flipping Cars and That’s a Good Thing, by Rahaan Mazumder.


One Judge Has the Guts to Put the Horror of This Supreme Court Term in Context, by Mark Joseph Stern.

Nosferatu McGoebbels is what would happen if an irrational hatred of all that is decent and good in this world became a real boy. — Jeff Tiedrich

Union Density Is the Cause of and Solution to Our Problems, by Hamilton Nolan