👓 Not my shoes | Music for Deckchairs

Read Not my shoes by Kate BowlesKate Bowles (Music for Deckchairs)
Disrupt your industries, if that is what you are in business to do, but do not disrupt the bonds that tie employees, however loose or unspoken they may be.
—Isabel Berwick, 'Workplace communities matter–now more than ever'
Kate has a fantastic parable here. I highly recommend everyone reads it. While she talks about her daughters and their shoes and applies it to inequity in higher education, it applies to nearly every facet of our lives. We need to fix these problems, not only to improve equity within our economy, but to improve our humanity and our lives.

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In this future, we’re all being asked to accept that the sticker price of our success is indifference to how things turn out for others. Of course, this isn’t a novelty, and it’s barely a disruption; this is how the demands of profit have needed work to be managed for a long time.  

December 03, 2018 at 09:01AM

It’s treating someone else’s wellbeing, someone’s lost job, someone’s public dressing-down, someone’s stolen idea as somehow not your problem, not your shoes.  

December 03, 2018 at 09:01AM

This is what higher education is currently saying to its long-term casual staff. While universities are underfunded for teaching and expected to compete globally on the basis of research, then the revenue from teaching will be diverted into research. This isn’t a blip, and there won’t be a correction. This is how universities are solving their funding problems with a solution that involves keeping labour costs (and associated overheads like paid sick leave) as low as possible. It’s a business model for bad times, and the only thing that makes it sustainable is not thinking about where the human consequences are being felt.  

This last sentence is so painful…
December 03, 2018 at 08:58AM

👓 Certification in limbo in N.C. House race as fraud investigation continues | The Washington Post

Read Certification in limbo in N.C. House race as fraud investigation continues (Washington Post)
Mounting evidence of fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District could indefinitely delay the certification of a winner, as state election officials investigate whether hundreds of absentee ballots were illegally cast or destroyed. The North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement has no plans to certify Republican Mark Harris’s 905-vote victory over Democrat Dan McCready, according to an agenda of a board meeting scheduled for Friday morning.

👓 IFTTT, WordPress, and XML-RPC | ZATZLabs

Read IFTTT, WordPress, and XML-RPC by David Gewirtz (zatzlabs.com)
I have another pro-bono non-profit site I support, where I set up an automatic feed for news items. When an item is given a particular tag in Pocket, it’s picked up by IFTTT and then posted as a post on the destination WordPress site, which becomes a short summary for the site’s front page. You ...

👓 NetNewsWire Status Report: the Last 10% | inessential

Read NetNewsWire Status Report: the Last 10% (inessential.com)
I’ve been working on this app — originally Evergreen 1.0, now NetNewsWire 5.0 — for four years, at least. And now GitHub tells me that the 5.0 alpha milestone is 91% complete. Which means, yes, I’m down to that last 10%. Old engineering wisdom says that the last 10% takes as much time as the first 90%, which means I have another fours year to go, and it will ship in late 2022.

👓 NetNewsWire Comes Home | inessential

Read NetNewsWire Comes Home by Brent Simmons (inessential.com)
After some years spent traveling the world, NetNewsWire is now back where it started! It’s my app again. We’ve kept its room ready for all these years. And I am thrilled to welcome it home. Thanks to Black Pixel

👓 NetNewsWire is a free and open source feed reader for macOS. | Ranchero

Bookmarked NetNewsWire (Ranchero)
NetNewsWire is a free and open source feed reader for macOS.
It’s at a very early stage — we use it, but we don’t expect other people to use it yet. It’s not actually shipping.

👓 The Future of NetNewsWire | BPXL Craft – Medium

Read The Future of NetNewsWire by George Dick (BPXL Craft – Medium)
Since acquiring NetNewsWire from Newsgator in 2011, we’ve invested a great deal in the continued development and support of the product…
Awesome to see the project come back to the original developer who still wants to shepherd it.

👓 Bookmark: WordPress 5.0: A Gutenberg FAQ | Matt Mullenweg | Brad Enslen

Read a post by Brad EnslenBrad Enslen (Brad Enslen)
My rapid fire thoughts:
So with Gutenberg we can have more autoplaying Youtube embeds, more snarky memes, fewer words and meaningful sentences in blogging so we can be just like Facebook and Twitter. Feh!
I distrust reliance on JavaScript.
You break my WP blog and I’ll find a new platform and host.
I have until 2022 to find a new platform. Maybe.
I just want to write. I don’t want more friction to banging out sentences.
There is a reason I hyperlink to stuff rather than embed.
/waves cane/ like grumpy old git.
I’m almost ready to be a grumpy old git too.

❤️ IndieWeb Days of Christmas | Eddie Hinkle

Liked a post by Eddie HinkleEddie Hinkle (eddiehinkle.com)
Every day in December, the IndieWeb is trying to collectively ship an update. Today, I created a stub for the 2019 Austin IWC page, and Aaron Parecki published it live on the server! So that's day 2! It's missing the schedule and sponsors because I didn't have that info, but it'll be added soon enough

Reply to What is Emoji ID? by Doug Belshaw

Replied to What is Emoji ID? by Doug BelshawDoug Belshaw (MoodleNet project)
Some more details about a proposed solution for MoodleNet that could solve some problems around decentralised identity.
Doug, the sound of this is interesting, but it seems to be a lot harder than it might need to be, not to mention the pitfalls of being assigned emojis one wouldn’t want representing them in addition or the centralized nature of the provisioning source.

It also sounds very much like Kevin Marks’ Distributed Verification scheme using the rel=”me” attribute on web pages for which he built a chrome browser extension to actually implement it. Kevin also recently reported that Mastodon now actually supports this verification scheme in one of their most recent updates which should be used by instances that are regularly updating. The benefit is that this scheme already exists, is relatively well supported, there are parsers available for it, and it’s actually working on the open web. It’s also truly distributed in that it doesn’t rely on any central provisioning authorities that require ongoing maintenance or which could provide a monopoly on such a service.

🔖 SLOWLY

Bookmarked SLOWLY (play.google.com)

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🎧 ‘The Daily’: Why U.S. Bombs Are Falling in Yemen | New York Times

Listened to 'The Daily': Why U.S. Bombs Are Falling in Yemen from New York Times

The killing of Jamal Khashoggi has renewed criticism of Saudi Arabia more broadly, including the kingdom’s role in the war in Yemen. It’s a war that has created what has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in the world — and one that the United States has backed from the beginning.

A nice little overview of some of the history behind what’s going on in several portions of the Middle East.