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January
- https://www.waveapps.com/ - alternative to PayPal
- https://sandstorm.io/how-it-works#semantic - apparently there is good integration between apps
- https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/overseas/information/usa/first/adult/canada -- applying for UK passport from overseas
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/every-successful-relationship-is-successful-for-the-same-exact-reasons
- https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/marie-kondos-tidying-up-shows-how-bad-we-are-with-money.html - I am skeptical
February
- https://thedailywtf.com/articles/classic-wtf-flawless-compilation - "but it compiles!": how even a "programmer" can totally not understand what they're doing
- https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html - abusive behavior and wealth
- https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/how-can-i-control-my-spending-and-save-money-in-2019.html - compulsive spending
- https://www.networkworld.com/article/3337516/linux/the-linux-command-line-cheat-sheet.html
- https://www.bbc.com/news/disability-47064773 - online socializing vs. normal people
- https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/article226226240.html - Sage & Swift / Watts Grocery filing for bankruptcy
- https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/6/18214046/flickr-free-storage-ends-digital-photo-archive-history
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v129rsjYGeI - a guy speaks/raps eloquently about how body-image affects female people
- autistic/disbled blogger Amanda Baggs https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/about-2/
- https://www.pluralpride.com/playbook
- https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133?hl=en&authuser=0 - Google+ going away 2019-04-02
- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612974/once-hailed-as-unhackable-blockchains-are-now-getting-hacked/
- https://www.wirefly.com/content/phone-plans -- place to search for cellphone plans
- https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1100254079089930240 - ADHD
- my cargo train metaphor -- it takes a long time for the train to get up to speed. Once it gets up to speed, it can go anywhere -- but every interruption means starting over from a dead stop, and that takes more fuel, and sometimes I just run out before getting anywhere at all.
March
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/style/modern-love-talking-to-my-fiance-about-my-new-girlfriend.html - polyamory, marriage
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cable-tech-dick-cheney-sex-dungeon_us_5c0ea571e4b06484c9fd4c21
- https://medium.com/@wilw/my-name-is-wil-wheaton-i-live-with-chronic-depression-and-generalized-anxiety-i-am-not-ashamed-8f693f9c0af1
- https://www.theautisticadvocate.com/2018/05/an-autistic-burnout.html
- https://www.non-compete.com/its-time-to-leave-facebook-for-mastodon/
- https://themighty.com/2017/07/childhood-emotional-abuse-adult/?fbclid=IwAR3zzU1S-PkK_x6LMJOueqIUR_SXVTYWAhfQK3YPd_0IZ5tzh3Uhx200GSE
- https://ktn.fyi/blog/posts/20190208-mastodon-is-not-just-a-server
- http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Flawless-Compilation (in case I hadn't already stashed this): some people who supposedly are qualified at coding totally don't understand what they're doing
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/love-after-life-nobel-winning-physicist-richard-feynman-s-extraordinary-letter-to-his-departed-wife - grief, and how love doesn't die when the beloved does
- https://medium.com/@markweinstein/google-plus-users-find-a-new-digital-home-at-mewe-d05f8365e574
- https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted - list of self-hosted FOSS software packages
- Taiga (project management)
- https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/14/iridium-aireon-satellites-gave-faa-key-data-in-737-max-investigation.html
- https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/685533353/a-playful-way-to-teach-kids-to-control-their-anger
- for mapping mouse buttons:
- xinput
- xinput get-button-map [device]
- xinput set-button-map [device] [list of all button targets, in order]
- xev
- see help text to filter for button events only
- buttons 1 and 3 are usually L/R; use xev (button events only) to see what other buttons map to
- xinput
- https://www.visible.com/plan - unlimited data, hotspot enabled, Verizon network, $40/month
- https://www.ofa.us/ - Obama-sponsored activism org
- http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1944.html - explains wave-particle duality but I am skeptical of the claim that "It was essentially impossible to explain the photoelectric effect any other way - in particular, if light was a wave it wouldn't work that way."
- Report of Fertility in a Woman with a Predominantly 46,XY Karyotype in a Family with Multiple Disorders of Sexual Development
- https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/a-little-poly-story-by-danielle-corsetto/ -- polyamory
- https://gizmodo.com/when-google-fiber-abandons-your-city-as-a-failed-experi-1833244198
- https://prismaticspeech.com/telepractice/ - trans voice training in Greensboro, with remote option
- https://www.quora.com/What-are-narcissists-weaknesses#ans93408337 - narcissism
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/upshot/women-with-male-twins-are-more-likely-to-face-penalties-at-school-and-work.html
- https://youme.social/home?group=0 - like MeWe? Can't tell if it's proprietary or an instance of some open-source package
- https://hub.toot.cat/display/b64.ZGYxODFlYTAyY2FiMDEzNzAzN2EwMDUwNTYyNjQ4MzU -- CSS for multicolumn streams in numerous social platforms
- https://artsandculture.google.com/theme/eAJS4WcKh7UBIQ - history of the WWW
- https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep#installation - improved grep
- https://i.imgur.com/csi4PcD.mp4 - animation: US population density by county by year
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6848127/Estrogen-therapy-boosts-transgender-womens-brains.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/health/woman-pain-anxiety.html
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-sea-was-never-blue
- https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/28/rare-condition-makes-woman-grow-huge-beard-get-mistaken-man-8951414/ - another example of biological gender diversity
- https://medium.com/@devonprice/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01
April
- https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18287318/youtube-logan-paul-pewdiepie-demonetization-adpocalypse-premium-influencers-creators
- http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet - a bit of AOL history is mentioned
- https://twitter.com/samdylanfinch/status/1112075410697674752 - people-pleasers and abuse
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/google-is-back-meet-the-enterprise-focused-google-currents/
- https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/18/gaugan-photorealistic-landscapes-nvidia-research/
- OpenBook (manifesto) - open source
- https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/12/high-speed-trains-are-killing-the-european-railway-network.html
- https://dayssincelastfacebookscandal.com/
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/23/greta-thunberg-autism - intersection between autism, activism, and rationalism
- https://www.bryanlarsen.com/gallery/ - includes a lot of optimistic-SF-themed work
- https://www.wired.com/brandlab/2019/04/big-rig-no-driver-tusimple-uses-ai-train-self-driving-semis/ - the technology of self-driving long-haul trucks
May
- https://www.inverse.com/article/55149-how-many-glasses-of-water-should-you-drink-a-day
- https://native-land.ca/
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/30/busting-the-myth-that-depression-doesnt-affect-people-in-poor-countries
- https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/25/18512620/dooce-heather-armstrong-depression-valedictorian-of-being-dead - success and depression
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pInRUiAysWESr4eXLSs2xqBM_4F9lq7VkpGEVNv7IEc/edit - multiple systems glossary
- https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/gendered-artificial-intelligence
- https://twitter.com/SixArmedSweater/status/964123333762670597?s=19 - a bit of fantasy about what is often going on =
- https://theaspergian.com/2019/03/27/is-aba-really-dog-training-for-children-a-professional-dog-trainer-weighs-in/ - ABA is not "dog training for children"
- https://theaspergian.com/2019/03/23/very-grand-emotions/ - how aspergians and neurotypicals experience emotions differently
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/train-across-america-amtrak.html
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/google-is-back-meet-the-enterprise-focused-google-currents/ - the replacement for G+
- https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/ - Google+ exodus
- https://plus.google.com/apps/activities/comments?hl=en - page still shows 9 comments as of 2019-05-09
- https://research.fb.com/three-and-a-half-degrees-of-separation/
- https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/9/18538194/google-duplex-ai-restaurants-experiences-review-robocalls
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/review-opera-once-led-web-browser-innovation-it-has-new-ideas-again-with-reborn-3/
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/6-healthy-relationship-habits-most-people-think-are-toxic - rather heteronormative, and should be taken with a grain of salt if you're not neurotypical
- https://www.vention.io/ - on-demand machine printing?
- https://kitty.town/@GinnyMcQueen/100838764080403511 - Peertube/Framasoft and abuse issues
- https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/brzuwa/as_a_mental_health_worker_or_someone_affected_by/eohuqrn/ - how mental health issues are a handicap
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/ - HyperCard
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/gab-is-in-full-meltdown-and-founder-andrew-torba-blames-the-deep-state - private social network dedicated to "free speech" not doing so well
June
- http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190322-why-prioritising-fun-over-work-will-stop-procrastination
- http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171204-the-compelling-case-for-working-a-lot-less
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cui-bono/201501/good-neutral-and-bad-selfishness - some interesting observations about social manipulation
- Thoughts on Finding Myself Differently Brained By Jane Meyerding
- https://www.fastcompany.com/90360061/youre-probably-answering-these-5-common-interview-questions-wrong
- https://www.mycarfax.com/ - helps track car maintenance
- https://www.thecut.com/amp/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-ive-wasted-my-whole-life.html
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/self-driving-cars-have-a-problem-safer-human-driven-ones-11560571203
- https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/sim-swap-horror-story-ive-lost-decades-of-data-and-google-wont-lift-a-finger/ - why we don't trust Google with more than we have to
- https://www.additudemag.com/symptoms-of-add-hyperarousal-rejection-sensitivity/ - rejection sensitive dysphoria, in case I didn't save this link earlier
- https://interestingengineering.com/googles-quantum-processor-may-achieve-quantum-supremacy-in-months
- https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/want-to-raise-successful-kids-science-says-do-these-5-things-every-day.html -- seems to me strategy #1 should be abandoned under certain circumstances, because it had the opposite effect on me. #3 can also be taken too far.
- https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/18/18677511/lyme-disease-diagnosis-health - Lyme disease is being handled incorrectly
- https://medium.com/@virgo083120/why-i-stopped-wearing-bras-455380ad1b20 - breast mythology
- https://blog.usejournal.com/my-kids-are-spoiled-brats-and-its-totally-my-fault-7bde0e108e20 - repeats the myth about not being friends with your kids
- https://scribit.design/products/scribit - does it have an API, or do you have to use their app?
July
- https://opensourcesurvey.org/2017/
- https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/jul/04/how-a-video-game-community-filled-my-nephews-final-days-with-happiness-elite-dangerous
- https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/9hrj9g/30_plus_years_on_hormones_what_effects_did_i/ - real-life experience contradicts canonical beliefs about HRT