Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
All, I’ve decided to withdraw the CoC RFC. There are many reasons for it, but there are a few points I want to make. As to the content of the RFC, when I initially proposed it, I selected the Contributor Covenant due to it being a well adopted standard. Several people raised objections to…
cache hit 1120:single/related:7dff8eb70e30692066cf888c64f5c744 empty Five years ago this month, Larry Sanger caused a stir when he launched a fork of Wikipedia, the site he helped create in 2001. Sanger believed Wikipedia had fatal weaknesses that could only be fixed by making a clean break from the past. He had devised a new editing process he…
The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb There’s a fun game I like to play in a group of trusted friends called “Controversial Opinion.” The rules are simple: Don’t talk about what was shared during Controversial Opinion after and you aren’t allowed to “argue” — only to ask questions about why that person feels that way. Opinions can…
My post about leaving the FreeBSD community has now been viewed significantly more than when I posted about being SWATed. While I expected people to take notice, that surprised me. There’s been a lot of feedback, and I’ve been watching all of it. It’s gone about as well as I guessed it would. There’s been…
I’ve been trying to publish this post for 5 months. It’s been sitting in my queue, and I’ve been too worried about fallout to publish it, despite the support of friends familiar with the situation. But I’m not going to enter 2016 knowing that I was too scared to do something. So here it is….
The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom By QUOCTRUNG BUI and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER ====================================================== THIS IS A GENERATED TEMPLATE FILE. DO NOT EDIT. ====================================================== this is generated from src/style.css Median Distance From Mother Pipeline: 2015-12-21-mom-distance | December 23, 2015, 12:09AM | ac7c3a166344d65a18411af46e246ea418d2a9d2 Families traveling from far-flung places, returning home for the holidays….
It is an acknowledged fact of modern life that the internet brings out the worst in people. Otherwise law-abiding citizens pilfer films and music. Eminent authors create ‘sock puppets’ to anonymously praise their own work and denigrate that of rivals. Teenagers use the internet for bullying; even more disturbingly, grown-ups bully strangers with obsessive zeal,…
[This piece was originally posted on Jennie Steinberg’s blog. It has been republished here with permission.] ADVERTISING Last night, my partner and I watched an episode of How I Met Your Mother for the first time since the finale. We were browsing through Netflix for something quick and funny, and decided it was time to be nostalgic and…
As much as I’ve always wanted to be the subject of someone’s missed connection, I doubt I’m suited to it. Aboard public transport, my go-to facial expression is a stern, furrowed brow. “Solving the crisis in the Middle East, no doubt,” my fellow passengers probably sympathize, contemplating the task of fixing the world’s thorniest geopolitical dilemma…
Photo Credit Andy Rash As someone with the keen observational skills of Mr. Magoo, it took me a long time to notice a problem social-media acquaintances had been talking about for months. “I woke up to four new people today asking me for money on four different donation platforms,” one friend said. “One was my…