A lot of diverse links this week as we get into Blaugust. Blaugust has started, the feeds are buzzing. The participant list has been recently updated by Krikket and the opml file has been created by owl. What to play when you're trapped in the hospital by Mog who is doing blaugust for the first time so you better be nice to him. A few Linux utilities by DoubleAA who is also a friend of the blog so ditto Some positive trans sports news: Lev Goldburg, endurance swimmer, is set to swim across Lake Huron The wikimedia foundation is union-busting from Jason Koebler (404media) Once again proving that organizations that you otherwise tend to support politically still tend to be shit behind closed doors. I read a book once about how progressive activist organizations that go NGO inevitably fall into institutional calcification and conservatism, but can't find it in my LibraryThing. SportsNet didn't wait long after it's MLSE acquisition to jack up streaming prices by Trevor Beggs (blogTO) Co-worker of mine, so someone who literally works for Rogers, is contemplating cancelling his Sportsnet subscription over this because he just can't afford it. It's just too much fucking money to watch sports. This is what the crackdown on sports streaming piracy is getting you -- monopolization and price hikes. Another win for copyright. The telecom and media industry in Canada is a nightmare. But because I read this article by Krebs on tv streaming sticks I warned my co-worker against them as well. But seriously, what are you supposed to do? Quit sports fandom I guess. ava has a very good essay on the failure of the individualization of privacy and the need for concerted shaming of smart glasses. A very long and very interesting look at early doujinshi circles, especially in mecha fandoms, and the role of fudanshi in them: On Fudanshi: Image, the Subversion of Mecha and Queerness in Post-War Japan by Adoggo/Chris (retroanimechris). Some really great scans from early doujinshi in here and on his site generally. American Oligarchs Prepare for War in the Wreckage of a State They Destroyed by Conor Gallagher (naked capitalism) An essay/summary/analysis on the decline of the American secular state, lots to chew on in here. Related: Fuck 'Enforce the Fares' by videodante I know people who refuse to use Toronto public transit because it's "dirty". And sure I am not a fan of stepping onto the streetcar and finding a large pool of urine. But public transit is public and that means the whole public. TTC has tried to crack down on fare enforcement and it sure as fuck hasn't solved homelessness yet. Quisling from Wikipedia This term came up in a Taskmaster video I watched and I know what the word means from having read it before and context but I didn't know the history of it. Stop letting your cats go outside freely, they're killing all the fucking birds and small animals (my title) by Katherine Moseby (The Conversation) ⇄ Reply: mastodon+email ＄ Tip: ko-fi+liberapay Week 32 Links was last edited: 14 hours, 50 minutes ago