Recent Web Monday
Once again, LOL. (Lots of links.) If you only read one link from this pile, make it Alex Steffen's The Politics of Optimism. It's easy for me to get bogged down in the news of the world and withdraw. This helped. It reminded me of my favorite Chomsky quote that I should just have tacked up on my monitor:
Action
If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.And now, this:
Action
- We're His Problem Now (weekly call to action spreadsheet)
- @hels on action focus
- @mulegirl on repetition
- Comic: How to Call Your Reps When You Have Social Anxiety
- Artblock (when you're blocked... via @scottandrew)
- US Law: Bribery, Graft, and Conflicts of Interest (via @mathowie)
- ThinkProgress: Trump poised to violate Constitution his first day in office...
- Washington Post: For foreign diplomats, Trump hotel is place to be
- Wall Street Journal to PEOTUS: Liquidate
- Dan Gillmor: Facebook, Google, Twitter et al need to be champions for media literacy (@dangillmor is an essential daily read)
- EFF: Tech Companies, Fix These Technical Issues Before It’s Too Late
- Vox: Don’t let Donald Trump’s antics distract you from what’s really important
- Rough Type: Meet the new gatekeeper, worse than the old gatekeeper
- USA Today: Still time for an election audit
- Time: The Electoral College Was Created to Stop Demagogues Like Trump
- Richard Florida reading list (via @timoreilly)
- The President and the bomb (via @jdhamblin)
- Waxy: Teaching good manners to soldiers in the 1940s
- Jacobin: Vengeance Is Mine (I hate reading election post-mortems, but this has some good looking-forward in it too)
- To get it done, write it down (mathowie talks with the original lifehackers)
- You Are Not Paid to Write Code ("...code is a nasty byproduct of being a software engineer.")