A letter from a Lebanese woman.
Stop normalizing tragedy just because it doesn’t affect YOU.
Tragedy and pain, loss and fear, that is not normal and it must never be normal. Not anywhere.
The future for general-purpose computing.
We need to remain vigilant, and resist these power grabs masquerading purely as benevolent security measures.
From egg to the air: 21 days of bee development condensed into one mesmerising minute.
Optimizing for the wrong metric, part 1: Microsoft Word.
The boss needed item 3 inserted into a numbered list of hundreds of items. The intern used a mouse to select the original 3 on the screen, then typed 4, then selected the original 4, then typed 5, then scrolled down, then selected the original 5, then typed 6, and so on. Another intern sat watching the screen to make sure there were no mistakes.
Navidrome – FOSS Personal Music Streamer (via andrewmichaelsmith.com).
Navidrome allows you to enjoy your music collection from anywhere, by making it available through a modern Web UI and through a wide range of third-party compatible mobile apps, for both iOS and Android devices.
Oliver Malcolm: The Machine.
Busy filling buckets that are bottomless it seems.
New Riffs on the Old Mind-Body Blues: “Black Rhythm,” “White Logic,” and Music Theory in the 21st-Century.
(…) this article draws upon and tests concepts from critical race and whiteness theory, and asks whether, in taking “black rhythm” as its subject, some contemporary music studies reinscribe what the sociologists Tukufu Zuberi and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva have called “white logic”: a set of intellectual attitudes, prerogatives and methods that, whatever the intentions of the musicologists concerned, might in some way restage those division practices now widely recognized as central to early musicology.
State surveillance and the COVID-19 crisis (via cabinet.the-syllabus.com).
States have long recognized the value of controlling information in times of crisis.
Migrazine: Online Magazin von Migrantinnen für alle.
The Online Magazine by Migrant Women for Everyone.
Onlajn magazin migrantkinja za svakog.
Revista online de mujeres migrantes para todes.
Kovara Online ji Jinên Koçberan bo Herkesî.
Magazine de mulheres migrantes par tudos.
Göçmen Kadınlardan Herkes için.
Why Web Scraping Is Vital to Democracy.
The fruits of web scraping—using code to harvest data and information from websites—are all around us.