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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friendsmessy queer representation
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya (Autostraddle)Seeing someone familiar fail gives us permission to fail, too. Or, at least, to be softer with ourselves when we do fail. (…) I want queer representation that is varied and dynamic and expansive. That’s what queerness is all about.
Vox Populi, Vox Deorum: Elections in ASOIAF, Part I
In ASOS, the election of a new Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch is the first opportunity GRRM has to describe a Westerosi election. And thanks to Samwell Tarly and Jon Snow’s POVs being right at the heart of the contest – the campaign manager and his winning candidate, respectively – we have a wealth of information on how the elections process works in the Night’s Watch. So how do the black brothers run their elections?
An amazing look at the elections for Commander of the Wall in ASOIAF. Full nerdery ahead − I highly recommend it.
AI Is Threatening My Tech and Lifestyle Content Mill
As the editor of a content mill that generates great articles every 4.2 seconds, like “Five Hacks for Your Roku” and “Seven Hacks for Your Roku,” I feel the need to take a stand against the rise of AI articles and the threat they pose to my team of human writers, who we treat like robots.
la triste fin de railcoop
Simon Barthélémysucker
7 articles en 7 jours
Et voilà : 7 billets en 7 jours ; on peut dire que je me suis pris au jeu. (…) Le constat est simple : je trouve que le Web ne va pas fort en ce moment, et je voulais à ma petite échelle montrer un peu l’exemple.
Bravo pour tes 7 articles en 7 jours. C’est un super moyen de s’y (re)mettre et de combattre un peu cette peur de l’article « pas assez bon » − et tes raisons de publier sont partagées. Merci d’avoir ajouté ta pierre au web indépendant !
The enshittification of the web… in 2012
Anil Dash (Anil Dash)The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment. They seldom talk about what we’ve lost along the way in this transition, and I find that younger folks may not even know how the web used to be.
Devastatia (NSFW website) shared this post that really made me smile. She found this 2012 post by Anil Dash called The Web We Lost. Although I had been blogging since middle school, I bought my first domain name in 2012 (actually, two of them: the personal one (Internet Archive didn’t keep the design, sad times)…
Carmen Phillips