Notices by Ashe Dryden (ashedryden@xoxo.zone), page 2

@annika ::tips hat::

The stock market is up. Parasites.

Because OF COURSE they’re scabs
https://www.404media.co/perplexity-ai-offers-to-help-new-york-times-with-tech-union-strike/

@mhoye it's between that and Jack the Lion for me @powersoffour

What is the best thing to plug into a library’s elevator?

Wrong answers only.

Harvey Danger's Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? is an album that is surprisingly good for their otherwise one-hit-wonder status. Here's are a couple good ones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fviSpZSplnY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPhLJWRa80I

US ex-police officer guilty of civil rights abuse in Breonna Taylor death

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/2/ex-us-police-officer-guilty-of-civil-rights-abuse-in-breonna-taylor-death#ixzz8qQrAFLPp

The stories coming out of Sudan are terrifying :(

What're folks using for unix shells these days? I've been using zsh for years, but haven't looked to see if there's a better alternative.

If you’re creating an email address for your child, don’t include their full birthday 😬

What software is available to draw a network (social context) and rearrange the position of the connections on nodes so they appear more organized?

I’m sketching out a network analysis of a wicked problem (over-policing of Black communities in the US) and need it to be easily digestible.

It’s like Netflix, but for eugenics
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/18/us-startup-charging-couples-to-screen-embryos-for-iq

The US could be investing in better social programs, updating failing infrastructure, and climate change mitigation efforts, but instead we get to throw more money in the permanent war economy pit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Keynesianism#Permanent_war_economy

Just rabbit-holing down the future we could have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech

Philip Zimbardo, of Stanford Prison Experiment fame, has died

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/10/philip-zimbardo-the-psychologist-behind-stanford-prison-experiment-dies-at-age-91

@annika thank youuuuu

@evan I’m not worried about accessibility, I want the historical context

Is there a particularly good book about the history of Western colonialism/imperialism in the Middle East? I’m thinking, like, mid- to late-Ottoman empire to recent history.

Edward Said’s Orientalism has been on my list forever, but I want some background before I dig into it.

#bookstodon

I don’t understand how you can drone strike hospitals, schools, mosques, and refugee camps and think you’re the good guys. https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/10/14/deadly-israeli-strike-on-hospital-tent-camp-in-gaza?traffic_source=rss&utm_source=press.coop

My university is requiring everyone take a seminar on "academic freedom and free expression".

They really, really don't like people standing up against this genocide.