Katherine Villyard @kvillyard@librem.one

I also should have mentioned that I actually critiqued Barbie so hard that I ended up consulting for Mattel. https://medium.com/csforall-stories/tech-barbies-backstory-how-she-went-from-math-is-hard-to-robotics-engineer-63d22437df5d

"The first thing auth govts do.. is shut down the archives, censor..and produce propaganda glorifying a mythical past.. We call on all TSHA members to resist the current effort.. to politicize it, to remake it into a heritage grp or, worse, a propaganda organ"- past Texas State Historical Assoc presidents.

But hey, the guy who led “lock her up” chants about Hilary having a private e-mail sever just was indicted for ordering the destruction of his own home security video server. The one with the evidence on it.

Once again, Teen Vogue is doing a better job covering politics than most other mainstream publications:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-online-safety-act-lgbtq-youth?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Everyone: Let's use this worldwide communication network to download all the movies and TV show we could ever want.
Hollywood Execs: But that would be piracy!
Everyone: So what?
Hollywood: If you pirate these movies, the people that make them won't get paid for doing so.
Everyone: So if we get the movies through you, they will get paid?
Hollywood:
Hollywood: I never said that.

FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users 🔗

This is true more broadly: to the extent possible, limit the data your server collects and stores, and only store data for as long as it is necessary.

Hey. So as major platforms start to fall apart, don't necessarily look for the next big one.

Dust off your blog.

Go back to establishing web-rings.

RSS feeds. Remember those?

This is the way to share good stuff. You don't need a centralized platform for that.

As hams, we should know that.

Did you know that some folks with disabilities are not allowed to save up over $2k in their bank account or they lose their assistance?

Do y’all remember Computer Engineer Barbie, the world’s worst computer engineer? Starring in the world’s most sexist children’s book? With all the discussion about Barbie, I realized it’s been almost a decade since that controversy blew up and I went viral for this feminist remix. (“Now with less sexism!”) https://caseyfiesler.com/2014/11/18/barbie-remixed-i-really-can-be-a-computer-engineer/

“I would have had to give birth to an identical version of my daughter without a skull and without a brain and hold her until she died,” said Ashley Brandt, had she not traveled out of state for an abortion.

Brandt was pregnant with twins, but one had a fatal condition—the longer she carried it in utero, the riskier it was to the survival of the other twin.

Texas has outlawed all abortions, except to save a pregnant woman’s life. MDs can https://tinyurl.com/43dw5t83. 1/2

#abortion #abortionrights

I remember when I first learned about how much 'hacking' is some combination of 1) social engineering, 2) rubber hose decryption, and I've categorized fictional super-elite hackers in the same fond but unrealistic place as 'head injuries cause unconsciousness but no permanent brain damage' ever since. https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/110736619238165286

The studios thought they could handle a strike. They might end up sparking a revolution https://t.co/6g1YHTKgq2

Inspired by a thread over on Cohost (https://cohost.org/cgranade/post/2030843-in-an-ideal-world-n), I think I finally hit on why so much of "X is hard" discourse about various open source or open protocol X gets me down.

The internet was always complicated and not terribly usable outside of a small niche. Instead of building abstractions, though, we built middlemen.

No one knows what an e-mail address means, they look someone up on Facebook. No one knows what a file is, they know pics show up in Google Photos.