This month’s picks came by pretty early in the month which was pretty nice! And they came by really organically, usually suggestions by friends.
Don’t hesitate to send music on Bandcamp my way, I always appreciate folks sharing music with me!
Things I read in Week 21 of 2019
This week I recommend the essay by L.M Sacasas about modern social networking.
- Some thoughts on Red Hat Enterprise 8 including Python 2 and what it means by ChrisSiebenmann
- The Inescapable Town Square by L.M Sacasas
- Twilight—the Many-Faced God by Volamel
- In 1998, ‘Jagged Alliance’ Developers Threatened a Walkout—And It Worked by Darius Kazemi
Things I read in Week 20 of 2019
This week I highly recommend reading the report by the Human Rights Watch about censorship and repression of civil liberties in China.
- China’s Algorithms of Repression by Human Rights Watch
- PHP in 2019 by Brent
- ‘Rage 2’ Is ‘Doom’ Meets ‘Mad Max’ Meets Mediocrity by Rob Zacny
- AirPods Are a Tragedy by Caroline Haskins
Things I read in Week 19 of 2019
This week I recommend reading the piece by Colin Campbell about crunch at Epic Games and the essay by Arkady Martine.
- New Feelings: Selfish Intimacy by Alexandra Molotkow
- A Teen Dirtbag Beat-Em-Up With Phenomenal Writing by Tim Rogers
- How Fortnite’s success led to months of intense crunch at Epic Games by Colin Campbell
- MCC Development Update – April 2019 by Postums
- The speed of BGP network propagation by Ben Cox
- Everyone’s World Is Ending All the Time: notes on becoming a climate resilience planner at the edge of the anthropocene by Arkady Martine
Things I read in Week 18 of 2019
This week I highly recommend reading the piece by danah boyd about the nature of information in the current era..
- 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook by Nicholas Thompson and Fred Vogelstein
- The Fragmentation of Truth by danah boyd
- Defending Democracies Against Information Attacks by Bruce Schneier and Henry Farrell
- The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities by Kelsey Ables