Asinine Tech

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

This week I highly recommend reading the report by the Human Rights Watch about censorship and repression of civil liberties in China.

• China’s Algorithms of Repression by Human Rights Watch
• PHP in 2019 by Brent
• ‘Rage 2’ Is ‘Doom’ Meets ‘Mad Max’ Meets Mediocrity by Rob Zacny
• AirPods Are a Tragedy by Caroline Haskins

This week I recommend reading the piece by Colin Campbell about crunch at Epic Games and the essay by Arkady Martine.

• New Feelings: Selfish Intimacy by Alexandra Molotkow
• A Teen Dirtbag Beat-Em-Up With Phenomenal Writing by Tim Rogers
• How Fortnite’s success led to months of intense crunch at Epic Games by Colin Campbell
• MCC Development Update – April 2019 by Postums
• The speed of BGP network propagation by Ben Cox
• Everyone’s World Is Ending All the Time: notes on becoming a climate resilience planner at the edge of the anthropocene by Arkady Martine