Wednesday Links
Another mid-week link dump. I'm trying to link beyond our new national nightmare a bit. If you only have time for one, make it The Great Silence. And then make time for Vicki Boykis' post about blogging. (Maybe I need to prioritize instead of categorize, hmm.)
The State of Things
The State of Things
- John Scalzi: Three Weeks In
- @quinnnorton: Let me say something to my friends about the political emotion of the moment.... (breathe, strategize, use reason)
- Kottke: Is liberal democracy in trouble? "Warning signs are flashing red."
- George Lakoff interview: A Brain Scientist Explains How To Turn Trump Into A 'Loser' (eg. FiveThirtyEight runs the numbers)
- Atlantic: A Reflexive Liar in Command: Guidelines for the Media
- Politico: The New Rules for Covering Trump
- AP: Writing about the 'alt-right' (new internal style guideline for accurately labeling racists)
- The News (music industry veteran on handling disruption)
- Maciej Cegłowski: Who Will Command The Robot Armies? ("What we need to do is grow up, and quickly.")
- 7 web design dos and don'ts (Monteiro: "It's time to grow up.")
- Gina Trapani: We’re All Frauds ("...get really comfortable being uncomfortable...")
- Om Malik: Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum
- Leigh Alexander: It’s Time For a New Kind of Power Fantasy
- Vicki Boykis: Fix the internet by writing good stuff and being nice to people (via @mathowie)
- Gizmodo: Reddit Is Tearing Itself Apart
- The Guardian has moved to https
- More Than 1 Million Google Accounts Breached by Gooligan
- Ars Technica: Firefox 0-day in the wild is being used to attack Tor users
- Motherboard: The Entire Internet Will Be Archived In Canada...
- The Great Silence (beautiful short story via @fraying)
- Lin-Manuel Miranda to Produce 'Kingkiller Chronicle' (whoa, LMM and Patrick Rothfuss working together!? )
- Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS ($5/month)
