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I've spent a fair amount of time on this blog documenting what Bitwarden has been quietly doing to erode the trust that made them the default recommendation after LastPass started falling apart. That's a story about opacity and greed —...
Anyone who has worked in publishing for any time has hear the words. Lots know that the First Sale Doctrine has something to do with copyright, but many hear just words. Part of the trouble may be that it seems to me to be misnamed —...
Last week we spoke remotely at the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. This is the text and slides of our talk.My name is Yancey Strickler. Thank you for having me.Today I'm going to talk about how we and society are changing. In ways that are...
I may have spoiled myself a bit for this – I saw the 2002 remake from Steven Soderbergh, which starred George Clooney and focused a bit more on a love story hiding within Stanislaw Lem’s original novel. Andrei Tarkovsky’s original...
For pride month, straight critic Ben Miller takes a look back at a gay film he otherwise would have never seen Watching Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle during pride month, I caught myself being drawn into the idea of what pride...
What pre-1985 science fiction adventures have you started this summer? Any great reads? Disappointing ones? Intriguing discoveries? Here’s the April installment of this column. In a conversation on Blueksy (my primary social media after...
A roundup of interesting links I have enjoyed recently. An 8-page, printable zine maker: dirtylittlezine.com A 3D tour of the Criterion Closet: the-criterion-closet.vercel.app Global freedom and democracy indices:...
After seeing this in an email from Meta today:"The setting to disconnect your off-Meta activity is going away."... I was reminded that I should finally delete my Facebook and Instagram accounts, so I guess that setting isn't the only...
People asked how I build projects in Lovable or with any other vibe-coding tools. I share my approach here.Vibe-coding is the build stage in my workflow. More thinking before I open a coding agent helps me reach a minimum lovable product...
I've been collecting physical media for over 5 years at this point. It started as exclusively games, then became music, and then movies. However, my love of collecting has kinda dwindled or has made me outright anxious, which means I'm...
Who are you?Hello there! I am Shadra Strickland, author/illustrator and Chair of Illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art.What do you write?I write picture books and poetry for now.Though I’ve been illustrating books since...
I want to tell you about the hum. Not a literal hum. I’m not talking about tinnitus or the fridge or the sound my old PC made before it died. I mean the background noise that ran underneath my entire life from at least high school onward...
In today's video I speculate about the future of AI
In Saskatchewan, there’s a sandwich with many names–or at least many variants of the same name. Some menus in the area spell it Frajolaki, as I have; others spell it Frazolaki. Still other restaurants spell the name Fratzolaki, a...