links, etc A Day in the Life of a Woke Third-Grade Teacher, as Imagined by a Far-Right Politician - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency worth it for this little gem alone … As we begin tidying up the room, I mandate that the tallest white boy in class clean out the litter box the kids who identify as cats use.
links, etc People Who Bike Are Subsidizing, Not Shirking, Street Costs this is a total banger on the matter.
links, etc The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won. - The Atlantic this. New York City Office Vacancies Hit Record High With Skyscrapers Sitting Empty also this. archive.is i’m not saying the two are linked, but some rebalancing is likely in order. Elon Musk censored Twitter in Turkey. It’s a troubling pattern. look at who holds the debt and see who gets to say stuff.
links, etc Minnesota Legislature approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers - Minnesota Reformer it’s interesting to see how things get finessed here given that the drivers aren’t actually employees. seems to bring things more in line with taxi cost structures and pricing. i don’t like lyft or uber. but i dislike taxi companies even more. imho, the appification of this service has definitely been a move in the right direction....
links, etc Extracting the Essential Simplicity of the Internet | Communications of the ACM a tribute to worse is better engineering and studied underspecification. seriously though, a little bit of retrospective analysis on the beauty in the simplicity of the internet’s “design”. the underspecification and ability to work over any link type really was a master stroke.