Articles
Articles I find interesting or important.
Culture
Permalink to section 'Culture'- Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price (Archived)
- you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress). by Ismatu Gwendolyn (Archived)
- The man who tricked Nazi Germany: lessons from the past on how to beat disinformation by Peter Pomerantsev (Archived)
- I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out. by Jennifer Coates (Archived)
- On “Male Socialization” and the “Trans Masc Versus Trans Fem” Discourse™ by Julia Serano (Archived)
Media Criticism
Permalink to section 'Media Criticism'- On Letting People Enjoy Things by Esther Rosenfield (Archived)
- In Defence of Critique: Let People Enjoy Not Enjoying Things by charlie squire (Archived)
Mental Health
Permalink to section 'Mental Health'- There Is No Moral Imperative to Be Miserable by James Greig (Archived)
- Why Finding Your Autistic Community Didn’t Fix Your Loneliness by Heather Cook
Relationships
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What Is To Be Done? by CJ The X (Archived)
Out of all the web manifestos I have read, this might be the one that resonates with me the most.
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Moderation.txt by Xandra (Archived)
How to prevent your community from becoming a Nazi bar.
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In Praise of Links by Coyote (Archived)
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 (Archived)
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 (Archived)
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 (Archived)
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 case 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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