NOW – Page 4895 – Amanda Unvarnished

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· 18 Heshvan 5783 (Saturday 12 November 2022) · 0 minutes to read

How Elon Musk's Twitter Is Harming Users With Disabilities by Megan McCluskey

Twitter Was a Lifeline for People With Disabilities. Musk’s Reign Is Changing All of That

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· 18 Heshvan 5783 (Saturday 12 November 2022) · 0 minutes to read

Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)

Every time I post something that gets lots of engagement, I essentially end up carrying out a denial of service attack on myself. What does this say about the design of Mastodon and ActivityPub and the future of the fediverse?

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· 17 Heshvan 5783 (Friday 11 November 2022) · 0 minutes to read

Anymore? When did he ever hide it? https://t.co/a33MSxUzHU
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) November 11, 2022

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· 17 Heshvan 5783 (Friday 11 November 2022) · 0 minutes to read

What the midterms told us about voters and crime by Radley Balko

Despite the right's best efforts to scare the hell out of everyone, crime doesn't appear to have been much of an issue at all

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· 17 Heshvan 5783 (Friday 11 November 2022) · 0 minutes to read

The Age of Social Media Is Ending by Ian Bogost

It never should have begun.

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· 17 Heshvan 5783 (Friday 11 November 2022) · 0 minutes to read

“Young Kin,” “Sounds Chinese,” “Coco Chow,” “China-loving” … Trump openly and repeatedly slurs Asian Americans, and no one in his party seems to care.

At some point, people will decide that the GOP’s complaints about “wokeness” are cover for its tolerance of overt bigotry. https://t.co/oDoBbvpGrw
— Will Saletan (@saletan) November 11, 2022

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· 17 Heshvan 5783 (Friday 11 November 2022) · 0 minutes to read

Lamenting Twitter’s and WCAG’s potential

A blog post where I mourn the loss of the places of community we and I had.