Early August link roundup
Shai-Hulud and the risks of external dependencies, by Elia Scotto.
The 90 day disclosure policy is dead, by Himanshu Anand, via Faisal.
A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months, by Nate Anderson.
AOC Must Run For President, by Hamilton Nolan.
Independent Watch Retailer Collective Horology Sues Trump And Administration Over New Tariffs, by Andy Hoffman. Best of luck to Asher and the rest of the Collective. We’re all rooting for you.
Understanding 2D6 Math and Why I use 2d6 for my role-playing games these days, both by Alex.
Eric Bailey’s linkblog is one of my most frequent link sources. His post on 30 July was an absolute goldmine. Here are some highlights:
- Verisign is finally bringing
.webdomains to the internet after a decade of fighting, by Brian Fagioli. Someone’s gonna pay serious money to getwide, so they can have.web world..wide .web - What I think about when I edit, by Eva Parish.
- The Male Gazed: Surveillance, Power, and Gender, by Kate Losse back in 2014.
- Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious, by Jim Nielsen.
In the tech world, its high priests exist free from all bothersome real world problems, the grubiness of things like fascism. Instead, like English colonisers, they can only be guilty of irrationality, a sort of bad form. Not the done thing to needlessly upset the masses, or make a show, it’s just not cricket.
kjz (emphasis theirs, also via Eric)Never this young again, by Frances Crossley.
Your writing needs a permanent home—a domain that you own and control.
On writing to exist, and website graveyards, by Winnie Lim.
Please Use AI, by Shawn Smucker, via several.
The Productivity Mirage, by Alex Kotliarskyi, via David Larlet.
What we have won, by Dr. Ruth Pearce.
Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling, Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups “Anti-Rights”, by Erin Reed.
Also by Erin: Dem. Ohio Gov Candidate Amy Acton Scheduled a Meeting With LGBTQ+ Advocates, Didn’t Show Up, And Kicked Out Trans People Who Did.
She Defied Neo-Nazi Violence; Now Her U.S. Passport Has Been Revoked, by Artemis T. Douglas and Jane Migliara Brigham.
Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police, by s. baum.
California Police More Likely to Stop, Search, and Arrest People Perceived as Trans, Report Finds, by Alex Cooper.
Sandy Ernest Allen asks: Who goes transphobe?
Asmus, Sabine and
Ó Fionnáin, Mark.
The Early Concept of the Celtic Colour Term glas in Welsh and Irish and its Later Semantic Diversification
Journal of Celtic Linguistics,
Vol. 25,
№ 1,
January 2024,
pp. 1-36.
https://.
(via Fadi BouKaram)
Please Return to Your Seat: On the long haul flight, by Scott Monaco, via Kottke. 💯
As a Windows user, it’s a very surreal way to install a program, by Marcin Wichary, via Andy Baio.