What I saw on the web on 2024.10.16

[reblogarythm]

1. You should be using an RSS reader
   by Cory Doctorow
   https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise
   in some sense all of reblogarythm is a sustained argument for the glory that is .RSS
   i regularly see people talking about good things were back when .RSS was a thing (i see folk say the same thing about DW). it's still here, and still going strong!
   via rss, of course!
   
   
2. Bad Map Projection: The United Stralia
   by Randall Munroe
   https://xkcd.com/2999/
   so horrible that it just might work!
   via rss
   
   
3. Today Rideshare Drivers, Tomorrow Therapists
   by siderea
   https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1858562.html
   excellent thoughts on nuänces of what murricans insist on calling "antitrust"
   via rss
   
   
4. The Best Defense of Orc as Other We’ve Heard
   by Ben Riggs and Scott Bruner
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_oomHnGOQE
   "best" may still not amount to "good"....
   via rss