Category: Link posts

This week I highly recommend the personal essay by Amanda Hudgins and also the the essay about fear in video games by Andy Astruc.

• Recap: The Nov. 2 Munk Debate Protest by Neville Park
• Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple by Ben Thompson
• The Fleeting Magic of Scholastic Book Fairs by Marina Koren
• Holding fear in the palm of my hand by by Andy Astruc
• The Kentucky State Fair by Amanda Hudgins

 

Starting to tackle my unread queue in a serious way again! Two articles in here were in there for nearly a month, ouch. I especially recommend the look at at the Bloomberg Supermicro stories.

• Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories by Patrick Kennedy
• These Hugely Popular Android Apps Have Been Committing Ad Fraud Behind Users’ Backs by Craig Silverman
• Private by Design: How we built Firefox Sync by Tom Ritter
• PHP Malware Examination by Tim
• The Anarchism of Blackness by William C. Anderson,
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Witches, the Indiepocalypse Panic and the concept of doing all the things yourself. I especially recommend the Outline article about the witch capital of Norway.

• Welcome to the witch capital of Norway by Chelsea G. Summers
• There Are Not “Too Many Games”: What The Indiepocalypse Panic Ignores by Liz Ryerson
• doing it all yourself by bradjmurray

This week we have a first, a recommendation that is not an online article. A book, how exciting! Anyways, I highly recommend Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, go borrow a copy from your local library system.

As for online articles, I recommend reading the Triple D Facebook article. Make sure you’ve got a snack for that, its a long one.

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• Queer Use by feministkilljoy
• Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis by Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg and Jack Nicas
• What Is A Computer by chosafine