Today I got confirmation about something that I've been suspecting for awhile now: I've been getting slow-boiled away from doing accessibility work for my day job.

I hope I can say this without sounding arrogant, but I am, ah, extremely good at doing digital accessibility work.

It feels like it's time to start putting some feelers out. Please reply to this email if you're interested and would like to chat!

If Bostonians Loved Other Local Institutions the Way They Love Their Local Sports Franchises
It's true, all of it.

Extrapolated Futures Archive
Well, this is extensive.

The end of oil? As fuel shocks cascade, 53 nations gather to plan a fossil fuel phaseout
Looks longingly out of the window

Sneaky spam in conversational replies to blog posts
I think this thing is two things in that they're both seeing what they can get away with, and also seeing if they can legitimatize what gets through for efforts on other sites.

This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price
When I replaced our washing machine I told the technician I wanted something with zero computers, and I think he got it the same way Ursa Ag does.

Stop and Smell the Geosmin
So that's the name of the thing.

AI as a Fascist Artifact
"That’s how fascists think: Turning people into means, into objects that have to serve a purpose or need to be destroyed."

Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans
Hell. Yes.

When Your Digital Life Vanishes
I used these guys to retrieve some data awhile back, and was surprised and impressed with the care they demonstrated throughout the process.

The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
Every Jimmy Fallon is taking away a chance of someone more deserving.

Do I belong in tech anymore?
Ky is good people and this hits hard.

How to Euthanize a Whale
I never thought to think about this, but fortunately some other folks have.

Why Florida Crocs Are Thriving Outside a Nuclear Power Plant
I played bass for the Nuclear Crocodile Sex Pit 🤘

Sight and blindness in the same person: Gating in the visual system
Brains are… extremely weird.

10 years later, Enter the Gungeon's creators reflect on a genre in existential crisis
I am bad at Enter the Gungeon, but also obsessed with the layers upon layers of thought and detail put into the game.

The Sites We Lost
Definitely nostalgia-tripping on how much more fun and innocent the web used to be.

Addicted to social media? This adorable, infuriating cat will stop you from doomscrolling
And speaking of fun internet!

The Silent Frequency That Makes Old Buildings Feel Haunted
🎵 Now I've heard there was a secret chord,
That buildings play to scare you out of your gourd 🎵

The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet
Shit.

Turkey's underground city of 20,000 people
Folks, have you ever tried to chase down a missing chicken and found an ancient subterranean city that could conceal the whereabouts of up to 20,000 inhabitants?

The woes of sanitizing SVGs
I am still to this day surprised anyone lets us use SVGs.

Democratic Governance of AI Is the Real Solution
It's that or airstrikes.

Before GitHub
GitHub, like a lot of the web's infrastructure, should be a co-op.

Self-updating screenshots
Well, now this is clever!

AI, Tokens, and the Gathering Storm
"And when the bill arrives, the industry may discover that the storm was not intelligence. It was arithmetic."

What Physical ‘Life Force’ Turns Biology’s Wheels?
Go little guy! Go!