Asinine Tech

This week I recommend the essay by David Abram.

• The Night The Lights Went Out by Drew Magary
• Talk: Plantations of Play – Colonial botany in videogames by Sabine Harrer
• A highly opinionated guide to learning about ActivityPub by Darius Kazemi
• Magic and the Machine by David Abram

This week, I have a different type of recommendation than usual. A book! The strange but well written book by Ann Leckie is my recommendation.

• iTunes: An Error Occurred by Allen Pike
• Large European routing leak sends traffic through China Telecom by Doug Madory
• The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

This week I recommend the piece about Nujabes and the piece by Federico.

• (Don’t Fear) The Reaper by Steve Troughton-Smith
• The Immortal Legacy of Seba “Nujabes” Jun by brbseoul
• Cake or death: AMP and the worrying power dynamics of the web by Andrew Betts
• Social Archiving by wilkie
• Beyond the Tablet: Seven Years of iPad as My Main Computer by Federico Viticci

This week I recommend the essay by L.M Sacasas about modern social networking.

• Some thoughts on Red Hat Enterprise 8 including Python 2 and what it means by ChrisSiebenmann
• The Inescapable Town Square by L.M Sacasas
• Twilight—the Many-Faced God by Volamel
• In 1998, ‘Jagged Alliance’ Developers Threatened a Walkout—And It Worked by Darius Kazemi