Late July link roundup
Ecma International 65 years: A milestone celebrated.
Nied, Earl. Royalty-free Licensing in Standards. 2026. http://
Why in Building Protocols, Like Code, Starting Over Is Dumb, by mt.
Tigers, Giants Locked in Heated Pennant Race, by Yuri Karasawa.
HSE’s head of gender healthcare to step down after drafting new model of care, by Beatrice Fanucci.
Five Dems Crossed Party Lines To Strip Health Care From Trans Servicemembers And Their Families, by s. baum. Quislings, the lot of them.
Opinion: I didn’t move to Seattle for progressive politics. I moved here to survive, by Jessa Davis.
See also The American Transgender Refugee Crisis, by Silvaria Lysandra Zemaitis.
The Heritage Foundation Only Wanted to Protect Women’s Sports When It Was About Trans Athletes, by Madison Pauly.
Senior-level women are struggling and CEOs should not ignore it, by Stephanie Mehta.
We used to be able to buy things in this country, by Danny Katch, via Kottke.
Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose, by Keyana Sapp, via Virginia.
This Conversation Is Being Recorded. They All Are, by Katherine Bindley, via Ben Werdmuller.
See also Cal. Pen. Code § 632.
Who Is Dingle For? The Tourism Boom Pushing Locals Out, by Luke O’Connell.
Via James: The ‘IndieWeb Carnival’ prompt for this month is ‘Masks, Identities & Cosplay’.
It’s time to wake up: An Emacs alarm clock, by larsi.
FreeBSD Just Removed the Last of Its GPL-Licensed Code, by Maya Posch.
I believe in files, by Greg Wolanski, via Eric Bailey.
What just happened to The should worry us all, by Stephen Follows, via Kottke.
The data center backlash Is working. That’s why The New York Times is so concerned, by Dave Karpf.
Claude won’t let me talk about the Gaza genocide, by Evan Prodromou.
How Anti-Chinese Immigration Laws Unexpectedly Led to a Chinese Restaurant Boom in America, by Colin Marshall.
Also by Colin: Après Bowie, le déluge.
Actually, Nolan is kind of making a point about trans people, by Flint Del Sol.
See also two very different reviews:
- An Uncomplicated Man, by Emily Wilson, via Kottke.
- The Odyssey Will Slay Even Christopher Nolan Skeptics, by Dana Stevens, via Eryn.
Bored of the Swords: The Rebirth of Sword & Sorcery and the Death of the Weird, by Cynthia Ward, via Frances Crossley.
Also via Frances: It is time to revive the humanities: Undoing costly misgivings and misplaced systemic priorities, by V.H. Belvadi.
The Assault On Science Funding Continues, by Derek Lowe, via Kottke.
Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find, by Dr. Gary Fuller.
Sparling, Sarah. Gen Z constructions: An overview. Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America. 2024. https:// (Via Language Hat)