Sunday, September 7th

A little delayed this week since it was the first week of most of my classes and still figuring out my schedule.

Now

Media

https://itch.io/b/2979/play-for-peace-games-for-palestine-2025-charity-bundle External Link • itch.io

Research

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-agoraphobic-fantasy-of-tradlife/ External Link • dissentmagazine.org

The ideology itself shies away from present-day discontent, further withdrawing from the world it purports to wish to change. The family has long been an exclusive realm, where people hoard both interpersonal and economic resources. Yet tradlife overlooks this contradiction of its own supposed anti-capitalism, supplanting it with the sharp and flawless grid of a pixelated image.

Zöe Hu wrote this really wonderful piece on tradwives in 2023. The rise of southern culture in the US has been an interesting conversation happening in my social circles. Also thinking about Ursula K Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. “Technology,”or “modern science” (using the words as they are usually used, in an unexamined shorthand stand-ing for the “hard” sciences and high technology founded upon continuous economic growth), is a heroic undertaking, Herculean, Promethean, conceived as triumph, hence ultimately as tragedy. The fiction embodying this myth will be, and has been, triumphant (Man conquers earth, space, aliens, death, the future, etc.) and tragic (apocalypse, holocaust, then or now).

https://www.pbump.net/o/the-power-we-use-and-the-power-we-give/ External Link • pbump.net

In fact, it is useful and important to look at this question not through the lens of persuasion but the lens of power. Your engagement and your work, not unlike your vote, is a form of power, something you can choose to grant to others. Those others, particularly organizations and companies, accrue that power to use as they see fit.

Philip Bump articulates something I have said time and time again about AI usage: you literally have a choice to engage with the software or not and doing it for the sake of ease is not a good enough reason, given the pitfalls.

The Equitable Syllabus project is to help make syllabi more inclusive, and it includes a substantial database for resources related to technology.

https://itp.nyu.edu/esp/#/research-database External Link • itp.nyu.edu

Really nice p5.js cheatsheet

https://bmoren.github.io/p5js-cheat-sheet/ External Link • bmoren.github.io

https://jblomo.github.io/webarch253/slides/Long_Live_the_Web.pdf External Link • jblomo.github.io

Links turn the Web’s content into something of greater value: an interconnected information space.

WWW's Daddy Tim Berners-Lee wrote in 2010.

Connections among data exist only within a site. So the more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform—a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.

Lee Tusman has curated a list of his referenced archive, pulling from sources such as Internet Archive, UbuWeb, and diy spaces.

https://leetusman.com/archive/ External Link • leetusman.com