more of this stuff coming soon!
Yesterweb Zine Issue 00 - The Old Web
a great introduction to the personal web; what it's like, why it's cool
The Neocities HTML Tutorial
a tutorial to gently introduce you to the world of coding websites
Braid > Learn
a crash course on torrents and how to use them, as part of Braid, bitrot's project to archive, index, and distribute artistic work digitally.
Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame by Meredith Whittaker
"A debut of new research and analysis, focused on emotions and the affective register- love! shame! intimacy!
What happens when we put love and intimacy at the center of our understanding of privacy, and what are the consequences of their disavowal, in favor of a more familiar technocratic definition of privacy-as-absense? What role does our deep desire for love and belonging, and our concomitant fear of shame and rejection, have to do with the (mis)direction of tech capital and the current, warped shape of the tech industry and its products? We take these questions seriously, and work through their implications together in Hamburg during that brief, liminal window between the winter holidays and the new year."
Turing Complete User: Resisting Alienation in Human Computer Interaction by Olia Lialina
"Who is scripting the conversations with these invisible ears and mouths? How can users control their lines?
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Computers are becoming invisible. They shrink and hide. They lurk under the skin and dissolve in the 'cloud'.
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With the disappearance of the computer, something else is silently becoming invisible as well - the User.
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When you read it in a broader context, the denial of the word "user" in favour of "people" becomes dangerous. Being a user is the last reminder that there is, whether visible or not, a computer, a programmed system you use.
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We need to take care of this word because addressing people and not users hides the existence of two classes of people - developers and users. And if we lose this distinction, users may lose their rights and the opportunity to protect them. These rights are to demand better software, the ability "to choose none of the above", to delete your files, to get your files back, to fail epically and, back to the fundamental one, to see the computer."
