Articles
Articles I find interesting or important.
Culture
Permalink to section 'Culture'- Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price (archive.today link)
- you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress). by Ismatu Gwendolyn
- The man who tricked Nazi Germany: lessons from the past on how to beat disinformation by Peter Pomerantsev
- I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out. by Jennifer Coates (archive.today link)
- On “Male Socialization” and the “Trans Masc Versus Trans Fem” Discourse™ by Julia Serano
Media Criticism
Permalink to section 'Media Criticism'- On Letting People Enjoy Things by Esther Rosenfield (archive.today link)
- In Defence of Critique: Let People Enjoy Not Enjoying Things by charlie squire
Mental Health
Permalink to section 'Mental Health'- There Is No Moral Imperative to Be Miserable by James Greig
- “BIPOC”, the Shared Oppression Myth, and the Black Natives It Erases by Kihnindewa (archive.today link)
Relationships
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What Is To Be Done? by CJ The X
Out of all the web manifestos I have read on the indie web, this might be the one that resonates with me the most.
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Moderating Communities is Not a Burden by Xandra
How to prevent your community from becoming a Nazi bar.
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In Praise of Links by Coyote
Hyperlinks keep the web alive. This is also why link pages like this exist.
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The one app to read them all already exists, and it’s called RSS by Jatan Mehta
I have been subscribing to RSS feeds since the 2000s to follow website and blog updates, and I encourage more internet users to do the same.
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Nostalgia is Bullshit by Rin
I do not align with communities and movements that revolve around nostalgia, because I do not believe the past is inherently better, and Web 1.0 design nostalgia is no exception.
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Cohost So White: A Comprehensive Record of the Matter of Race on Cohost.org by Alyaza Birze
I have never had a Cohost account, but as an internet user who have witnessed and experienced racism, including microaggressions, on various online spaces. Alyaza's article is a good breakdown and study on how online platforms run by white people, even progressive ones, can still fail to address racial issues on their platform.
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