Aside for the small discussion at the end with Taylor Lorenz about having someone watch your social media streams for you (which I understand, but never hope to need) the discussion about Section 8 housing, its history, and the bureaucratic nightmare that it is for the most precarious people was maddening. So many of us are just a step away from being homeless. We all need to do better.
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This is a bad move by DeviantArt and they should feel bad and you should opt out and maybe move your art if you can…
Is the NYTimes relevant to anyone but other journalists?
https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2022/11/democrats-hold-off-red-wave-and-new.html
I use “other” loosely, but pointing back to the NYTimes and not actual journalists.
Oliver Willis: “The New York Times Is The Problem”
Why we should stop wringing our hands about The New York Times and instead, learn to love pointing out its many, many flaws.
https://oliverwillis.substack.com/p/the-new-york-times-is-the-problem
Scientific American: One of the Biggest Problems in Biology Has Finally Been Solved
Really interesting read on the connection between game theory and AI-assisted biology.
“Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how its AlphaFold AI program predicted the 3-D structure of every known protein”
Cory Doctorow: How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms
That’s because the Benevolent Dictators can sometimes turn malignant. Some of the policies that Big Tech insists keep its users safe actually endanger those users’ lives.
Source: How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms
This is one of the articles that started me on my way to reclaiming a space online just for me.