Read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944).
I’d boot with JavaScript, of course!
LinuxBoot – Linux as Firmware.
Getty Image Collection – Lean In.
LeanIn.Org and Getty Images have teamed up to create the Lean In Collection—a library of thousands of creative images devoted to the powerful depiction of women and girls, families of all kinds, and men as caretakers as well as earners.
Relevant: The Gender Spectrum Collection.
Bots + Beer: The Biohacking Frontier.
This issue of the newsletter was prompted by a rediscovery of a 2017 Wired article where researchers showed that you could encode malicious software onto DNA—software that doesn't affect the human host in the traditional sense of biohacking, but instead affects gene sequencers, and other genetic or forensic software and machines.
On Quillette and the Engaged Left.
Writing for outlets like Quillette and other right wing media can have value for advancing progressive causes.
Tracking- und googlefreies Smartphone.
Smartphones werden heute erst vom Hersteller, dann vom Nutzer mit Werbetracking vollgestopft. Dabei sind die Alternativen immer besser und alltagstauglicher geworden. Das ist mein Setup.
The Assholistocracy.
In both Britain and America, the levers of power are now in the hands of men (mostly men) who, when faced with anything resembling a moral decision, appear to ask themselves only one question: What would a total fucking asshole do?
Relevant: How to be less of an asshole. (From the same author; ed.)
Regularized Programming with the Bosque Language (PDF).
Interestingly, JavaScript is referred to multiple times as supplier of ideas.
In other news, the macro is currently b0rked here… Please fix it when you read this again, p3k.
The Linux desktop is in trouble.
There have been a lot of Linux desktop distros over the years. They tend to last for five or six years and then real life gets in the way of what's almost always a volunteer effort. The programmers walk away, and the distro then all too often declines to be replaced by another.