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'Trump’s Nativism Is Transforming the Physical Landscape -
From the wilderness of the west to the mountaintops of Appalachia, the president’s nationalism is remaking America.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/trumpian-nativism-is-transforming-the-american-landscape/564026/

geo-engineering is a topic full of sorrows and often tight to turbo-capitalist accelerationism, this book looks right on the point:

"the long and somewhat ludicrous history of state-funded attempts to manage, manipulate, and deploy the weather in America"

Make It Rain
State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America
Kristine C. Harper
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo25338705.html

"This collection unpacks the shorthand that ignores the media produced by people of color, further erasing the rhetorical, oral, and aural traditions of these communities. It illuminates, disrupts, and challenges what is assumed about the relationship between people of color and technology."

http://ccdigitalpress.org/book/shorthand/

@h been trying to catch up with the sun since a long time, still failing @enkiv2

"Queer enough? Categories and norms at the border"

https://xyz.informationactivism.org/en/queer-enough

"Trial by Fire
How Nina Droz Franco became a face of Puerto Rican resistance"
by Molly Crabapple

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/trial-by-fire-crabapple

(also recommended from the same author with Marwan Hisham: "Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War")

review of Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York:
"How Medieval Artists Used Monsters as Propaganda"

https://hyperallergic.com/448358/medieval-monsters-terrors-aliens-wonders-morgan-library/

"A Thousand Unblinking Eyes: A History"

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/a-thousand-unblinking-eyes-pinkerton

@Andy_P Persepolis :)

"Trolls Gonna Troll: When Online Doxxers (try to) Come Get You"

https://medium.com/librarieswehere/trolls-gonna-troll-when-online-doxxers-try-to-come-get-you-9713671542b2

"As Open Privacy's Executive Director, Sarah Jamie Lewis pointed out, this issue did not receive the attention from internet freedom groups or tech businesses on the scale of what we've seen for #NetNeutrality or copyright (e.g. #SOPA and #PIPA)."

btw Lewis is also behind the interesting project Cwtch: Privacy Preserving Infrastructure for Asynchronous, Decentralized, Multi-Party, and Metadata Resistant Applications

https://cwtch.im/

"The internet fight we're too 'shy' to fight because… sex?"
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2018/07/internet-fight-were-too-shy-fight-because%E2%80%A6-sex

@walruslifestyle indeed, personal attitudes towards the longevity topic aside, thinking about who would get access in practice to any kind of technological/medical advancement in that direction is depressing/scary/both..

"There's No Limit to Longevity, Says Study Reviving Human Life Span Debate"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/theres-no-limit-to-longevity-says-study-reviving-human-life-span-debate/

without discussing the paper's claims, which are less exciting than the clickbaity title might suggest, I find the obsession/quest for human longevity absolutely terrifying... I'm not against research ofc, but from a very personal point of view the idea of extending life span as much as possible, even indefinitely, is pure horror

"Decolonizing Mars: An Unconference on Inclusion and Equity in Space Exploration"

https://www.decolonizemars.org/

@walruslifestyle 😱

"Afrofuturism, inclusion, and the design imagination."

http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/march-april-2018/afrofuturism-inclusion-and-the-design-imagination

« 'It's nothing like a broken leg': why I'm done with the mental health conversation »
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/30/nothing-like-broken-leg-mental-health-conversation

"We're an intersectional feminist podcast series that challenges norms and aims to provide a platform for all voices, stories and narratives ignored by the mainstream."

http://kickingthekyriarchy.org/about/