Manifesto for a Humane Web

A look at search engines with their own indexes

free stickers and temp tattoos

You Don’t Have To Hate Your Job To Want A Union

Glossary of ableist phrases

fedivision song contest

Primer: Primer is a music podcast about translation and illumination. In its first season, music writer Yosuke Kitazawa (PBS SoCal, Light in the Attic) joins Christian Dueñas to explore Japanese City Pop.

We Are the Curators of the Web

Púsāmán: To a Female Friend, By Qiu Jin Translated from Chinese by Yilin Wang

software you can host yourself

We need to finish building the Fediverse

To Stop Climate Change, We Have to Learn How to Love

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/02/16/court-ruling-1900-fourth-street

https://fatherhood.gov/about-us https://sadgrl.online/shrines/webtv/

https://www.findinggravity.net/p/the-three-worst-things-ive-read-all

https://ko-fi.com/scribblerrva

https://politizoom.com/sure-trump-was-kicked-off-the-colorado-ballot-but-now-hes-received-news-thats-even-worse/

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/12/supreme-court-trump-cases-democracy-disaster.html

https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2023/5/

https://musgrave.substack.com/p/the-poem-i-dont-teach

https://parentsarehuman.com/?

https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/101-hidden-gems-the-greatest-films-youve-never-seen.html

https://substack.com/@400years https://400years.substack.com/p/will-we-believe-our-lying-eyes? https://400years.substack.com/p/id-rather-die-than-be-a-slave

https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/

I'm so horrible. You'd think I'd at least write a blurb for the links. Nope. Not today. Maybe some day?

#100DaysToOffload #1000TabsToOffload https://grist.org/economics/slow-down-do-less-a-qa-with-the-author-who-introduced-degrowth-to-a-mass-audience/

Imagine a world where you work three or four days a week. In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics. Overnight shipping, advertising, and private jets no longer exist, but healthcare, education, and clean electricity are free and available to all.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/03/marking-unmarked-category

An unmarked category is present when the category is considered so normal or ordinary in a particular context that it goes unnoticed. The category is the default setting in regard to social expectations, and it in a sense remains invisible

https://unconference.net/unconferencing-how-to-prepare-to-attend-an-unconference-2/

understanding what is an Unconference. It sounds cool except that the name/concept seems to be controlled by one organization. Could easily be duplicated.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/01/a-week-of-not-using-a-search-engine/

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16269/16269-h/16269-h.htm

https://publichealthpledge.com/

https://www.michalzelazny.com/links/

https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/personal-search-engine/

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/02/racism-as-general-proposition

https://platform.coop/ Platform cooperatives

https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2024/01/10/just-say-no-to-artificial-intelligence-in-your-creative-pursuits-please-jfc-wtaf/

https://thoughts.hnr.fyi/posts/2024/01/dear_algorithm/

https://www.brow.sh/

https://delightful.club/delightful-creative-tools/

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/lose-the-debate

https://archive.org/details/01-placebo-button-zukunftstanz/01-Placebo_Button-Zukunftstanz.flac

https://inessential.com/2024/01/17/corporations_are_not_to_be_loved.html

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/mercedes-benz-union-organizing-strategy-alabama

https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-17-medieval-fighting-snails-loud/

https://owncast.ghost.io/owncast-newsletter-january-2024/

https://fedia.social/explore

https://hacky.town/@rtyler/111966945395019757

https://noc.social/@todayilearned/111837260254278211

https://infosec.exchange/@Tarah/111615401238454443

https://fediverse.party/

https://alt-text-as-poetry.net/

https://neocities.org/ Create your own free website. Unlimited creativity, zero ads. Neocities is a social network of 734,600 web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web.

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/ Where have all the websites gone?Somewhere between the late 2000’s aggregator sites and the contemporary For You Page, we lost our ability to curate the web. Worse still, we’ve outsourced our discovery to corporate algorithms. Most of us did it in exchange for an endless content feed. By most, I mean upwards of 90% who don’t make content

https://stellarium.org/ Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope

https://jeena.net/content-is-king I was wrong about “Content is King.” This extreme concentration on only the content sucked out all the joy from having a website where you'd express yourself and showcase your personality. Instead to stand out you had to jump into the treadmill of faceless content creation.

https://crookedtimber.org/2020/07/24/in-praise-of-negativity/ On average, our criticism of others is going to be closer to the truth than our own original thoughts. Furthermore, our original thoughts are likely to be valuable just to the extent that they’re responsive to serious criticism from others, and have been modified in response to previous rounds of criticism. –This piece is referenced here: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/02/is-this-how-we-became-a-cooperative-species

https://indieweb.org/ a community of independent and personal websites

https://register.pridestudy.org/eligibility# Anonymous, long-term queer health study

https://livingwage.mit.edu/ Living wage calculator

https://radiofreefedi.net/ My new favorite thing online

https://duckduckgo.com/bangs Search precisely without tracking

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/01/kelly-odell-ammonites/ Do I like this art magazine site? I haven't decided.

https://owgf.org/2024/01/29/future-visualisations-for-preferable-futures-pascal-wicht/ “some of the best Solar Punk AI images I have seen” – @owgf@mastodon.world

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/917791 For Democratic Governance of Universities: The Case for Administrative Abolition

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/70543.html Gliding to the Matterhorn (video)

https://artemis.sh/2024/01/17/duplicate-information.html If you can't find it, it needs to be written. Collecting a lot of pieces of information into a cohesive source takes a lot of labor, and a lot of lived experience. What have I experienced in life? It’s different from others, and that perspective informs what I think is worth writing about

https://www.thepassivevoice.com/the-secret-to-reading-the-most-complex-literary-classics/ The secret to reading the most complex literary classics

https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa My grandpa was a Nazi

https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110979862/html?lang=en Kant for Children

1. Warped Front Pages: Researchers examine the self-serving fiction of ‘objective’ political news https://www.cjr.org/analysis/election-politics-front-pages.php Saved but not read because I believe in its veracity already. Kept open for possible future reference, and because of a nostalgic fondness for CJR. They covered my college humor mag when I was in charge, back when print was fun and influential.

2. https://mstdn.mx/explore Memo to self: make a feed or list or whatever it takes to get this instance's local feed in my home. It combines things I love: Mexico, the fediverse, and trying to learn Spanish.

3. https://www.citationneeded.news/citation-needed-has-a-new-home/ A lot of good places left Substack to protest that site's blech. Maybe I want to start reading Molly White regularly.

4. https://yacy.eskimo.com/ I'm always looking at alternative web search sites

5. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/artificium#Latin I'm always pondering the etymological connection of art, artifice, artificial, etc.

6. https://paper.wf/how2b/ One of my own other blog spaces. Why am I keeping it open? Probably to remind myself that at least one person is subscribed and not to forget it now that I'm posting here daily. (See ADHD & creativity.)

7. https://dotart.blog/humanissome/mutual-appreciation Another of my preexisting blog spaces I need to tidy up.

8. Funk & Soul Radio DJ'd by actor from Red Dwarf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Craig_Charles_Funk_and_Soul_Show I recently watched Red Dwarf for the first time and wondered what the lead actor was up to now. I feel like I should check this show out! Show page at BBC.

9. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346977/platform-socialism/ Probably a book recommendation from Mastodon.

10. https://diversebooks.org/resources/addressing-book-challenges/ We Need Diverse Books' resources to fight when books are challenged.

11. https://live.space/ A link from an artist I like on the fediverse led me to this platform. Is it for me? Based on this image of the site's landing page I would say no.

Laptop: 1. https://just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/an-ethical-internet/ 2. https://www.poetryfoundation.org 3. https://fallows.substack.com/p/the-court-cant-heal-itself-part-2 4. https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2023/11/11/therapy/ blog 5. https://alycia-pirmohamed.com poet

Politics
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/biden-mexico-gaffe-real-lesson/677402/
https://balloon-juice.com/2024/02/10/saturday-morning-open-thread-were-ridin-with-biden/
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/02/can-democrats-use-a-brokered-convention-to-nominate-johnny-unbeatable

Potential PeerTube Instances
https://spectra.video/about/instance
https://makertube.net/about/instance

Mastodon bookmarks:

I sense myself at a nexus of old and new. That sounds grandiose and sci-fi, but it's a mundane truth. Every moment is between old and new. I made some writing decisions—I want to categorize a few different types of writing by URL—that gave birth to this blog for uncategorized writing. I wanted continuity so I imported prior posts here. I have been working my way back to new. When I finished my importation I made a Post Zero as pivot point. That put me in mind of Inbox Zero, Browser Tab Zero, and fresh starts... A doctor once told me my post-surgery shoulder would be “as good as new!” That taught me some lessons:

The digital realm differs from life in that there are new starts. I could delete this entire post and start over. I can delete photos, profiles, programs, and hard drives.

> > But can I close my open browser tabs?! < <

I saw this toot...