Boy, sending a newsletter email about helping trans people turns out to be an efficient way to lose subscribers. Luckily, I absolutely do not want those subscribers.
Life in Weeks is a cool idea, but here's why I'm not going to share mine with you.
"Being “in tech” in 2025 is depressing, and if I’m going to stick around, I need to remember why I’m here." Every word of this resonated for me. #Technology
"The Social Web Foundation has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to advance open standards for the social web." #Fediverse
"Automattic confirmed to TechCrunch that when the migration is complete, every Tumblr user will be able to federate their blog via ActivityPub." I didn't realize this was still happening! #Fediverse
Some thoughts about the state of typical online discourse and what it says about America.
"Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?" #Democracy
"Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them." Posting is not activism. #Democracy
"Google’s head of HR, Fiona Cicconi, said there will no longer be DEI hiring targets due to the company’s status as a federal contractor and recent “court decisions and US Executive Orders on this topic.”" #Technology
"Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week." #AI