onfocus by Paul Bausch

Monday Links

This just keeps going. If you only read one article from these links, make it the NY Times article about conflicts around the globe.

Corruption

NY Times: Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump
Vox: Donald Trump is now questioning the legitimacy of the election he won
Atlantic: An Erosion of Democratic Norms in America
Washington Post: Trump Foundation admits to violating ban on 'self-dealing'
@amjoyshow: how kleptocracy could happen here...

Media

Intercept: Some Fake News Publishers Just Happen to Be Donald Trump’s Cronies
NPR: We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs
Huffington Post: Media Helps Boost False Claim That 'Millions' Voted Illegally
How the Trump Campaign Built an Identity Database and Used Facebook Ads
@jayrosen_nyu: Evidence-based vs. accusation-driven reporting
BBC Radio: Cambridge Analytica CEO interviewed by John Humphrys

Hail Mary

Daily Beast: The People Chose Hillary Clinton

Extra

Coping with Chaos in the White House (living with narcissistic personality disorder)
Dave Pell: America’s Achilles Heel (celebrity)
What you can do to save America from tyranny
TPM: This Is Not the Natural State of Things (July 2016)

The soundtrack for these links is the Butterfield Blues Band, Born Under a Bad Sign:

Nov 28^th, 2016, 9:57 am

Winter Berries II

Nov 27^th, 2016, 8:44 am

Winter Berries

Nov 27^th, 2016, 8:42 am

Recent Web Saturday

I took a little break from compiling links but the web did not take a break from creating them. So I bring you a new consternation of think pieces. (Pretty sure that's the collective.) No algorithms were knowingly used in collecting these links.

Corruption

Media

Hail Mary

Jill Stein: Election Integrity depends on YOU!
The Guardian: Jill Stein requests Wisconsin recount, alleging hackers filed bogus absentee ballots
CBS Philly: An Audit Of Pennsylvania Election Results? Already Underway
Bruce Schneier: Hacking and the 2016 Presidential Election
Washington Post: Electoral College must reject Trump unless he sells his business...

Practicing Cryptography

Tech

flarum: Delightfully simple forum software.
trigger-happy (open source IFTTT clone in progress)
Paul Ford: Get Me Central! (A quick explainer)
Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset feature

Extra

@jbushnell: I took a look at the Professor Watchlist so you don't have to...
Washington Post: Americans keep looking away from the election’s most alarming story
On Bullshit and the Oath of Office: The "LOL Nothing Matters" Presidency
Kottke: Five Steps to Tyranny
Inspirational Images: 1, 2, 3, 4

Nov 26^th, 2016, 8:41 am

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:

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)

Corruption

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

Media

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

Hail Mary

USA Today: Still time for an election audit
Time: The Electoral College Was Created to Stop Demagogues Like Trump

History

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)

Extra Extra

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.")

Nov 21^st, 2016, 9:21 am

November Fire

Nov 20^th, 2016, 8:30 pm

I'm a fan of Douglas Rushkoff and Team Human, but this episode makes me angry. And I can't completely reject it.

Nov 18^th, 2016, 11:28 am

Recent Web Friday

Friday links are really happening on Friday this time. We all know things are bad. Worse than bad.

Denormalization

Joshua Foust: The Abnormal Presidency
Matthew Yglesias: We have 100 days to stop Donald Trump from systemically corrupting our institutions
Sarah Kendzior: We're heading into dark times
Bertrand Russell: Letter to a fascist

Filter Bubbles

Jeff Jarvis: A Call for Cooperation Against Fake News
Christina Xu: Watching the Election from The Post-Truth Future
@AthertonKD: the loop

(thanks, @rustyk5.)

Hail Mary

#HamiltonElectors

Politics

Global Extra

Foreign Affairs: Global Trumpism
ZDNet: Britain has passed the 'most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy'
Aodhán O'Riordáin: Senator launches stinging attack...

Tech Stuff

SQL Server running on Linux? It happened.
Skyliner (new AWS automation service)
Firefox Focus (more secure iOS browser)

The soundtrack for these links is Adrian Holovaty's awesome rendtion of For No One:

Nov 18^th, 2016, 8:50 am

Recent Web Wednesday

Yet another round of hand-picked links from the link mill.

Normalization

Joshua Foust: This Is Not Normal
NYT Magazine: A Time for Refusal
Vox: The Rise of American Authoritarianism (March 2016)

This is a fitting update by @hbons. Though it can't hurt to take another look at the original this is fine and the 2016 update: this is fine.

Filter Bubbles