2022 - To Read

On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens

Transitioning, employment, and personal happiness Autism spectrum disorder is not specifically a pediatric issue. Statistics show that in the United States, 1 in 45, or 2.21% of adults over the age of 18, have autism. This is higher than the 1.85% prevalence rate of children in the US with ASD. Despite these numbers, until recently, … 8 Books by and for Adults with ASD Read More »

Living with untreated OCD can be brutal. You wake up in the morning, begin obsessing immediately, and then go to sleep twelve hours later hoping your next

Image Credit: ‘African and Caribbean War Memorial, Windrush Square, Brixton London’ by Kelly Foster licensed under CC BY SA 4.0 In this reading list, we recommend fifteen books previous…

“What is Decolonization? If settler colonialism is the elimination of the Native, decolonization is the structural and legal elimination of settler privilege and settler domination.” – Dr. Nick Estes “Representation alone cannot solve the problem of white privilege in LIS any more than (self-) congratulatory visions of inclusive multiculturalism can defeat historical legacies and institutional manifestations of racial discrimination.” – Todd Honma “..it is time archival repositories and archivists stop wondering about how to address the recommendations of the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials and simply begin doing the work.” – Jennifer O’Neil “Decolonizing does not mean the same thing as diversity and inclusivity. You can have diverse spaces and still have colonialism and colonial mentality present.” – Dr. Rosales Meza I have been asked for book and article recommendations over the years for […]

Books that challenge the notion of empire and offer a history of anti-colonial, anti-racist struggle.

The best anticolonial writing, as recommended by Daniel Elam, assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong and Fellow of Cornell's Society for the Humanities.

There are three interesting things to do with a computing museum. Museum directors and curators should be aware of all three and design galleries, present information, and make archives available t…

It appears that the highly touted 988 suicide hotline includes involuntary call tracing, police intervention, geolocation and surveillance.The police alone is a no for me.Abuse of trust seems to be built into this system and I am skeptical.https://t.co/yVTAkyX20b— LolaMina (@absurdistwords) July 17, 2022

I'm gonna say something every artist already knows.in games, we know that *how you feel* when interacting with a system will change what you do with it.HOW YOU FEELWHEN USING A CREATIVE TOOLWILL CHANGE WHAT YOU MAKE.— Samperson (@SamNChiet) July 17, 2022

I DID IT. i beat snake in breath of the wild. it took me 8 months and 6 restarts and countless moments of terror as it began to rain, but it is DONE pic.twitter.com/OwHTxauYP5— everest (@everestpipkin) July 1, 2021

ok. starting November 11th, i'm gonna be streaming a weekly playthrough of Breath of the Wild where i use the hero's path mode to never cross my own trail; a fiddly, spiraling, backtracking journey that will force me into increasingly byzantine paths through the world. pic.twitter.com/6Mo1EIi1aI— everest (@everestpipkin) October 25, 2020

Top 1 million domains? More like the top 1 million lies

minimal computing is perhaps best understood as a heuristic comprising four questions to determine what is, in fact, necessary and sufficient when developing a digital humanities project under constraint: 1) “what do we need?”; 2) “what do we have”; 3) “what must we prioritize?”; and 4) “what are we willing to give up?” http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000646/000646.html

What we can learn from technology that’s designed to be stepped on

I was starting to write a really big thing about permacomputing--I'd already made an outline and was drafting--but then I read this article and feel like I see things very differently now: https://applied-langua.ge/posts/terminal-boredom.html

If we just see our task as documenting solutions that engineers have solved, it removes the creativity and critical thinking dimension from tech comm. The creative dimension in tech comm comes into play as we identify and solve tech comm challenges, such as devising ways to simplify complexity or otherwise improve the user experience.

I'm not dead! I've been meaning to come back to merveilles for a while, just kept being put off until tomorrow. Well, I'm back, and while I was away I wrote a 30,000 word rant on why the way we interact with computers sucks for you all to read: https://opguides.info/other/hci2/intro/

“Because to tell the truth, nothing happens anymore. Nothing any longer has the time to happen. There is no duration left for anything to unfold in. Nothing can anchor itself in the world lon…

With the pandemic exacerbating long-standing workforce issues, fewer applicants are vying for open postdoc positions

I grew up in a semi-rural suburb. Somebody was always working on something – welding. Shoeing horses. Fixing tractors. You almost couldn’t help learning to use tools. Knowledge work on the other hand – it’s mostly done alone in front of a screen. In private. You don’t get a chance to observe the way a…

Sup y’all — How's everybody doing today? I hope everything's good. I want to extend a special welcome to all the new subscribers. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoy this email, please share it with a friend. Today I want to share two theories about the internet.

I wrote about why I think hn and lobste.rs aren't good places here https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/escaping-the-webs-dark-forest?s=r But basically it falls into the engagement trap, gamification (karma) and promoting kahneman's System 1 vs System 2 thinking when commenting, often convincing people otherwise along the way.

Datagubbe wrote a brilliant page on Sage advice for a calmer, more fulfilling digital life. If people here ever feel being online is stressful or tiring its worth a read: https://datagubbe.se/sage/

Hi I'm Herman Martinus. I'm an internet person and maker of things. Currently working on Bear Blog and JustSketchMe!

When I started thinking about writing a post about web font loading my intention was to propose relatively sophisticated ideas that I've...