Oppose KOSA.

We do not need censorship. The bill aims to sanitize “inappropriate content,” which will be abused to target minority/vulnerable groups and their content.

Age-verification compromises privacy and security; it is mass surveillance and furthers needless data collection.

#privacy #privacymatters #security

https://www.stopkosa.com

Even if you're not in MA, you can write to Elizabeth Warren at this link and tell her to rescind her support for the so-called "Kids Online Safety Act": https://www.warren.senate.gov/contact/shareyouropinion

It will matter less than what comes from her constituents, but might still help make her pause and rethink.

When it's October and you get to finally show off that Halloween body you've been working on all summer.

Game I workshopped with a 6yo:

❇️❤️🐦BIRD COMPLIMENTER🐦❤️❇️

(For 1 or more players)

== Rules ==

- Spot a bird
- Tell the bird why it's a good bird

== Optional Rules ==

- If you can't spot a bird, you can name a bird you haven't seen yet
- (Challenge mode) You can name/spot a bird for the other player(s) to compliment

== Winning ==

"It isn't about winning or losing, it's about helping birds feel good about themselves."

If you’re doing US-based events for women in tech, especially if your events are NB and trans-inclusive, you need to be paying a whole lot more attention to security than most events do. Get some paranoid infosec women and a real physical security presence. Safety planning right now should make everyone sweat. And don’t do events in states where your attendees are exposed to legal and medical harm. 🤦🏻

ETA: This went wide enough that I’m into the long tail of bad replies, muting now. <3

Points to tumblr--bookbinding commissions! https://www.tumblr.com/teleportbooks/729988557257818112/im-opening-up-bookbinding-commissions?source=share

douqi has started a comm for baihe / Chinese GL media (this is a subgenre of lesbian fiction) at baihe_media [https://baihe-media.dreamwidth.org/]!

She's started with a ton of great resource posts on the various forms of this genre. I would especially recommend the one on novels [https://baihe-media.dreamwidth.org/588.html], as it contains an excellent overview of the field; I had been referring to a draft of it for a while in chats so I'm happy that I can finally simply link to a stable internet location!

Talk To A Librarian Before Your Taxonomy Project Challenge

Please, I'm begging you, especially in tech: stop using the word "trivial" to mean "possible".

Just launched https://colors.fyi, it's a list of all the colors that are WCAG AA compliant with black and white.

Made with love with @eleventy.

being a programmer is very liberating because i can turn any computer problem into a much weirder computer problem

I had a dream last night that Java came out with a new packaging spec that involved encoding your metadata as a crystal that you then dissolved in a liquid, and somehow my first thought was, “That seems convoluted, but who are we (Pythonistas) to judge?”

Today is Back Up Your Data Day. I recommend doing a backup today that you don't normally do.

For some specific suggestions about things to back up, see my 2009 blog post: https://www.kith.org/jed/2009/09/20/backup-day/

The CSS Zen Garden is 20 today.
http://www.csszengarden.com/

It was about 9pm or so in Vancouver twenty years ago today, where I spun up an FTP connection and uploaded a handful of files to a server. I didn’t expect what happened next.

My intent was creating a site that proved CSS was a better way to design and build for the web than the mess of fonts and table tags the industry was dependent on up till that point. I figured a handful of the folks already into CSS at the time would find it neat, maybe a few other people would make an attempt at submitting, and it might prove to be a fun talking point for a few months.

What I didn’t see was how effectively it proved the point, and how revelatory that would be to the wider industry who weren’t using CSS yet. I mean I always dreamed it might reach a wider audience, but I never expected it to blow up early and remain relevant for as long as it did.

The designs it contains span a formative period of web design and development and most are of that era, while the industry has continued advancing beyond the ideals of 2003. But I keep it alive not just as an early web milestone, but also because it continues on as a reference for web curriculums and those joining the industry every day who get to experience that same aha moment the rest of us did many many years ago.

It’s no exaggeration to say that this one site launched not just my own career, but the careers of many of the contributors who are still prominent in the industry today. It remains my most significant mark on an industry I still work within today, and I still feel the pride of managing to create something that helped change the trajectory of the web for the better.

I enjoyed writing this footnote. From "Susu Does the Dozens," the new post on Stories from a Burning House. Read on for Tang poetry and sick Tang poetry burns.

https://www.burninghou.se/p/susu-does-the-dozens

LED Zeppelin

#ledzeppelin

Beautiful post on craft and care and maintenance here. She mentions the dangers of pursuing speed (of production) over safe and consistent cadence, and I think this applies more widely to kinds of work where there is pressure to optimise something in the name of efficiency (rather than necessarily speed) without considering the unintended consequences. Or perhaps some of those consequences are intentional after all...

On Craft by @grimalkina
https://www.drcathicks.com/post/on-craft