[SC 2.4.4] Marking some of these newsletters as dangerous
A subscriber kindly informed me that Gmail is marking some of these newsletters as dangerous, which is a good reminder that I really should get off Gmail.
Anyways, fuck 2023, and may 2024 be everything it wasn't (but in the good ways).
Black Triangles
I love this term, and will steal it for my everyday use.
Big Insurance Met Its Match When It Turned Down a Top Trial Lawyer’s Request for Cancer Treatment
Get 'em,
walk and talk
I would do this in a heartbeat.
Why This Doctor Is Fighting for Her Patients’ Pain to Be Taken More Seriously
"The larger culture within the United States is very ableist and discriminatory against disabled people. We shouldn't necessarily only glorify people being the smartest, the healthiest."
HTML, The Programming Language: A Programming Language
htML isN'T A proGRaMming LANgUAGe
Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content
Hey! If you use Substack, maybe consider a different platform. I quite like Buttondown.
Women in IT are on a 283-year march to parity, BCS warns
Good to know things will have caught up just in time for the climate to have been collapsed for a century or so.
Accessibility update: arXiv now offers papers in HTML format
This is great news.
Inside China’s Brutal Internet Addiction Clinics
There are a lot of disturbing things about this, especially how the "research" is manufactured and packaged for consumption.
Indoor Gardening and My Design Practice
My coworker Mike wrote this! It's really good!
The Brainwashing Of My Dad — Personal Stories From You
Sharing this during the holidays for no real reason.
They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like
"It’s an art when done well, and the people who do it care so much about what they do. But the modern application of much of AI is precisely about taking labor out of the equation. "
AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism
"Real AI isn't sci-fi but the precaritisation of jobs, the continued privatisation of everything and the erasure of actual social relations."
Standing Up for Gaza
"Nearly 1 out of every 100 Palestinians alive in Gaza three months ago is now dead. 20,000 people and counting."
What is hecomi ?
This isn't quite Kintsugi, but it sure is reminiscent of it.