Andy_Zettelkasten

Introduction
  This is a live experiment in creating an open zettelkasten system for links and analysis for info on the Internet. See this post describing the concept and this post talking about this implementation.
  If you have comments/questions/feedback, contact me at sylvester.andy@gmail.com
Link Categories
Agriculture
  National Center for Appropriate Technology - Helping people build resilient communities through local and sustainable solutions that reduce poverty, increase self-reliance, and protect natural resources
  ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture - A project within NCAT, lots of resources
Activism
  Ken Smith - Tools next to tools
    Ken writes about FeedLand, its capabilities, and possibilities for collaboration in having reading, writing, and "getting involved" tools all together in the same place, in the service of activism
  Community Tool Box from the University of Kansas: "Get help taking action, teaching, and training others in organizing for community development."
  City of Orlando: Neighborhood training source
  City of Orlando: Taking Your Leadership Skills to the Next Level (PDF)
  City of Cupertino: Neighborhood Block Leader Resources
  Training for Change: Training for Change is a training and capacity building organization for activists and organizers. We believe strong training and group facilitation is vital to movement building for social justice and radical change.
  Clark University - great Twitter thread on how graduate students unionized and fought for a better contract
  JustSecurity - Russian Torture and American (Selective) Memory
    Overview of torture reports from Ukraine, and a review of American views/practices on torture since 9/11 - scary (both parts)
  The Great Simplification - Interview/podcast with Marty Kearns (via Resilience.org)
    From the show notes: "On this episode, Nate is joined by Marty Kearns, a civic organizer and networking specialist. He and Marty discuss why both networks and communities will be critical to the coming challenges we face. How will the social ties we form now influence the outcome of power, peace and new social organization? How can we organize ourselves in order to best meet the future that is coming?"
  Waging Non-Violence Blog - Choose Democracy’s whirlwind effort to prevent a coup is a crash course in good organizing (Dec 2020)
    1. You don’t need to figure everything out before you begin.
    2. Fill a niche.
    3. You don’t have to be workaholics to be effective.
    4. Anxiety doesn’t help our analysis.
    5. Strategy requires us to assess what will be most effective in a particular situation, not to simply do what we’ve done before.
  Trainings.350.org - Build people power and capacity to run effective campaigns and movements to tackle the climate crisis. Find tools, skills, resources for yourself, your group, your campaign and your trainings
  Resilience.org - Mutual aid in NYC with Joshua Potash (podcast transcript)
  ISSUU - Booklets from the Panther Solidarity Organization
  Phila Back - A 2022 Under-The-Radar Movement (via Resilience.org)
    The upshot of all this is that democracy increasingly depends on individuals communicating with each other.
    Vigorous civic conversation in the salons preceded the French Revolution, and this is an enduring lesson which I applied years ago in a local land preservation campaign.
    This fact is now recognized by organizers who have made deep canvassing and friend-to-friend outreach standard procedures. Yet such practices are still mediated by campaign machines, upon which we should not rely for our engagement as citizens.
  Resilience.org - A Flowering of Radical Change (published on Great Transition)
  Waging Non-Violence Blog - Movements have a long history of playing the inside-outside game effectively (Nov 2022)
    Strategies that challenge or wield state power may be in tension, but many movements use both simultaneously to transform society.
  Waging Non-Violence Blog - We need both compassion and confrontation to defeat Trump (March 2016)
    However imperfect Trump protests have been, they are offering an alternative to the story of white silence and galvanizing many to act.
  African Coaching Network - First Exposure Training
    Our First Exposure Training (FET) examines why movements are the preferred vehicles for sustained social change. It examines theories of power, why and how movements emerge, how they develop and which factors determine or influence movement’s success.
    The FET helps movements and activists to develop a movement mindset. It focusses on participation as a key factor for potential success of a movement and equips participants with practical tools for planning and implementing tactics which are at the core of movement building and campaigns.
  Strategic Doing - Ten Skills for Agile Leadership
    Strategic Doing teaches people how to form collaborations quickly, move them toward measurable outcomes and make adjustments along the way. In today’s world, collaboration is essential to meet the complex challenges we face.
    Strategic Doing enables leaders to design and guide new networks that generate innovative solutions. It is a new strategy discipline that is lean, agile and fast—just what organizations, communities and regions need to survive and thrive.
  Waging Non-Violence Blog - How to write a people’s history of antifascism
    The world needs more dynamic movement histories — not another 'antifa' explainer.
  Shane Burley - An introduction to antifascist studies
  Heather Cox Richardson - Link to tweet/thread on Brazil storming of legislature (1/8/2023) (CNN also has coverage)
Aviation
  CNN - Boeing says farewell to ‘Queen of the Skies’ with last 747 delivery (1/31/2023)
Books
  Politics
    The Seven Democratic Virtues - From Penn State U Press
    Dewey for A New Age of Fascism - Teaching Democratic Habits - From Penn State U Press
Blogging
  GetBlogging.org - Good guide from Ben Werdmuller to how to start blogging (tools for writing, tools for reading)
  Swyx - Three Strikes Rule for Blogging
    The third time you refer to an idea, it's time to write it down
  Sacha Chua - No Excuses Guide to Blogging
    This page has an excellent summary, books is available in multiple formats to download
  Simon Willison - What to Blog About - Write about things you have learned, and write about things you have built
    You should start a blog. Having your own little corner of the internet is good for the soul!
    But what should you write about?
    It’s easy to get hung up on this. I’ve definitely felt the self-imposed pressure to only write something if it’s new, and unique, and feels like it’s never been said before. This is a mental trap that does nothing but hold you back.
    Here are two types of content that I guarantee you can produce and feel great about producing: TILs, and writing descriptions of your projects.
Business
  People First/John Philpin - We Are Becoming A Power Skills Economy
    Summary of post by Josh Bershin, "power skills" is a new term for "soft skills"
  Foundation for Economic Education - How Government ‘Helped Advance' One of Greatest Inventions of the 19th Century: The Telegraph
    Much of the telegraph’s success can be attributed to the fact that government officials failed to recognize its potential, paving the way for entrepreneurs.
Directories
  EthicalEdTech - A collaborative wiki of tools for ethical pedagogy (looks a lot like my links zettelkasten for Hugo)
  Joe Jennett - WebThings Directory
  IndieWebDirectory - A human edited, Indieweb directory
Elections
  Center for Democracy and Technology - Report on how to improve post-election audits (via ElectionLawBlog)
    Intro: As the 2022 midterms approach, about 300 people are running for federal or statewide office who have denied or questioned the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Inevitably, some of these candidates will lose their races. It seems likely that some of those candidates will refuse to concede, deny the legitimacy of their loss, and call for sham reviews of the election. How do we distinguish these reviews from true post-election audits, which play a key role in ensuring confidence in election outcomes? Our report serves as a guide to the post-election audit landscape in 2022 and offers a path forward for improving post-election audits in 2024 and beyond.
  Election Law Blog - "Two Years After Election Turmoil, GOP Voters Remain Skeptical on Elections, Vote Counts" - summary of Pew Research study
  ProPublica - North Carolina elections official under attack by locals who believe the election system is rigged (long and somewhat horrible story - no wonder election officials are retiring)
  VoteBeat - True the Vote officials held in contempt
  VoteBeat - True the Vote officials jailed due to contempt charges
  VoteBeat - Federal appeals court releases True the Vote leaders from jail (11/7/2022)
    Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips continue to withhold identity of person of interest in defamation case.
  QuakerCall.net - Resources to help fight for free and fair elections
  Safeguarding Democracy Project - New effort led by Rick Hasen (founder of ElectionLawBlog) at UCLA Law
    Safeguarding Democracy Project promotes research, collaboration, and advocacy aimed at ensuring free and fair elections in the U.S. conducted in accordance with democratic norms and the rule of law.
  The Conversation - I’m an election law expert who ran a polling station this election – here’s what I learned about the powerful role of local officials in applying the law fairly (Derek Muller)
  VoteBeat - Cochise County supervisors sue elections director to get access to ballots for hand count (Arizona)
    The Republican supervisors are asking a judge to compel the elections director to expand the hand count audit of ballots in the midterm election.
  Arizona Republic - Voting in Maricopa County: How does it compare with nation's other large counties?
  Stateman Journal (Salem, Oregon) - How Your Vote Gets Counted in Marion County (video from 2017 below)
  The Guardian - Kari Lake Refuses to Concede Election That She Lost (November 17, 2022)
  Seattle Times - Lawsuit seeks to stop invalidating ballots in Washington state for signature mismatches
    I wonder how much this happens in Oregon?
  VoteBeat - Too big of a job: Why Maricopa County’s ballot printers failed on Election Day (12/8/2022)
    Votebeat analysis finds the county’s heavier paper combined with high voter turnout likely pushed aging printers past their limits.
  VoteBeat - Arizona’s election certification moves the fight over results into the courts
  Oregon Capitol Chronicle - Mike Erickson suing Andrea Salinas, could keep her from taking office in Jan 2023
  Philadelphia Enquirer - Doug Mastriano supporters are flooding Pa. courts with baseless recount petitions in the governor’s race (via Election Law Blog)
    The effort could sow confusion about the validity of the election, tie up state courts, and disrupt officials’ work to audit and certify the results. Mastriano lost by almost 15 percentage points.
  The Federalist - Alabama Withdraws From Democrat Operative-Controlled Voter Registration Database
  The Federalist - CTCL Kicks Off 2024 Election Cycle With A New $80 Million ‘Zuckbucks’ Pledge
  The Federalist - Maricopa County’s ‘Maladministration’ Of 2022 Elections Cost Kari Lake The Governor’s Race, Lawsuit Claims
  Election Law Blog - “Kari Lake Claims Her Voters Were Disenfranchised. Her Voters Tell a Different Story.” (includes link to NYT article)
  VoteBeat - Here’s why we still don’t know what went wrong in Harris County on Election Day (11/8/2022)
    The state’s biggest county has no central system for tracking problems, so it still can’t say how many polling places opened late, ran out of paper, or worked just fine.
  CNN - Opinion: Arizonans aren’t buying what Kari Lake is peddling (12/6/2022)
  CNN - Opinion: Why Herschel Walker lost (12/7/2022)
  NPR - Election officials feared the worst. Here's why baseless claims haven't fueled chaos (11/14/2022)
  Belt Magazine - The Moral Power of Rust Belt Labor
  AP - Recount requests delay Pennsylvania election certification (12/14/2022)
    An effort that appears to be at least partially coordinated among conservatives has inundated counties with ballot recount requests even though no races are close enough to require a recount and there has been no evidence of any potential problems.
    The attempt to delay certification could foreshadow a potential strategy for the 2024 presidential election, if the results don’t go the way disaffected voters want in one of the nation’s most closely contested states.
  Arizona Republic - Kari Lake 'excited' over election trial but Katie Hobbs won't have to testify (12/20/2022) (via Election Law Blog)
    Kari Lake told fans Tuesday she was excited to prove elections are "truly corrupt" at an upcoming two-day trial ordered in her lawsuit challenging election results that show she lost to Democratic rival Katie Hobbs.
    Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson tossed eight of 10 counts in Lake's lawsuit Monday but allowed two to proceed, giving Lake a chance to prove her theory of intentional election misconduct in a two-day trial.
  Arizona Mirror - Abraham Hamadeh lawsuit will go to trial, request to inspect ballots approved (12/20/2022) (via Election Law Blog)
    Abraham Hamadeh got the green light from a Mohave County Superior Court judge to go to trial over an election he says was compromised by misconduct.
    Earlier this month, Republican Hamadeh filed a lawsuit alleging that his 511-vote loss to Democrat Kris Mayes in the race for Arizona attorney general was the result of election errors, including poll workers bungling Election Day voting in Maricopa County and improperly handled ballots during the verification process.
    To prove his claims, Hamadeh requested permission to inspect ballots in Navajo, Maricopa and Pima counties. Judge Lee Jantzen approved that request and set a trial date for 9 a.m. Friday, Dec. 23.
  Votebeat - Arizona GOP candidates’ lawsuits were a grab bag of flimsy claims. Judges shot most of them down. (12/20/2022)
    Much of Hamadeh’s election challenge advances to trial while courts swiftly dismiss nearly all of Lake’s and Finchem’s claims.
  Villages-News.com - Trumper arrested in voter fraud case (in Florida) wants criminal history erased (12/17/2022)
  Mediaite - Why Kari Lake’s Campaign Failed and How It Could Still Succeed (12/22/2022)
    She lost the election for Arizona governor, but could be positioning herself for a Trump VP pick - maybe that was her plan all along
  Brennan Center - Lessons for Our Elections from the January 6 Hearings
    This analysis outlines the electoral vulnerabilities revealed by the committee’s detailed investigation into the effort to overturn the 2020 election. It also lays out key steps that Congress should take to address those vulnerabilities.
  <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/12/16/arizona-judge-to-rule-on-finchem-secretary-of-state-election-challenge/69735441007/?utm_source=pphx-DailyBriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-briefing-with-greeting&utm_term=newsletter-greeting&utm_content=1531AR-E-NLETTER02">Arizona Republic - AZ judge rejects Finchem's lawsuit seeking new secretary of state election; request for sanctions OK'd (12/16/2022) (via Election Law Blog)
  Freedom To Tinker - Why The Voting Machines Failed in Mercer County, New Jersey (12/1/2022)
    In Mercer County, New Jersey, because of an error in preparing the Ballot Definition Files, the printed ballots did not match the ballot definition file, and the ballots could not be read.
    Excellent detail on how this happened!
  Freedom To Tinker - Next Steps for Mercer County Following Voting-Machine Failure (12/14/2022)
    Hand-marked optical-scan paper ballots are the most secure form of voting: with any other method, if the computerized voting machines are hacked, there’s no trustworthy paper trail from which we can determine the true outcome of the election, based on the choices that voters actually indicated. Even those voting methods that appear to have a paper trail, if it’s a computer that created the paper trail, it’s less trustworthy. And that’s the case even if the human voters have an opportunity to look at the paper, as I will explain below.
  John Philpin - Screen capture of Greg Palast statement on how GA SOS distorts election results - interesting
  The Hill - Arizona judge dismisses GOP AG candidate’s election challenge (12/23/2022)
    An Arizona judge has dismissed a lawsuit from the Republican candidate for state attorney general challenging the results, ruling that he did not prove his case of mistakes in the election process impacting the outcome.
  CNN - Kari Lake files election challenge (12/9/2022)
  CNN - Maricopa judge allows narrow part of Kari Lake’s Arizona election lawsuit to head to trial (12/20/2022)
  Arizona Republic - Kari Lake’s two-day election challenge ended Thursday without any evidence presented that election problems were engineered by Maricopa County officials and her opponent. (12/23/2022)
  VoteBeat - Kari Lake seizes on shrunken ballot problem to claim stolen election (12/23/2022)
    Some ballot images printed too small in Maricopa County. But county officials say that doesn’t mean voters were disenfranchised.
    Lots of good detail on presentations at the trial
  Arizona Republic - Kari Lake bombshell trial is bust (Op-Ed) (12/23/2022)
  NYTimes - January 6th topic page (many links to NYT articles, best used if you have a NYT subscription)
  Election Law Blog - My Reflections on the Release of the January 6 Committee Report on Trump’s Attempted Election Subversion and the Expected Passage This Week of Electoral Count Act Reform: Gratitude, Awe, and Partial Relief
    Rick Hasen gives his thoughts
  CNN - Arizona judge rejects Kari Lake’s election challenge and confirms Hobbs’ victory (12/24/2022)
  CNN - Arizona judge orders Kari Lake to compensate Katie Hobbs for some fees for election lawsuit, but declines to sanction her (12/27/2022)
  Beyond Chron - DON’T BLAME RCV FOR ALAMEDA COUNTY ELECTION SNAFU (via Election Law Blog) (1/3/2023)
    Description of problems Alameda County experienced using RCV, but author says RCV is working
  Election Law Blog - Summary of NYT article "After Election Problems in Houston, Republicans Seek to Overturn Results", citing a number of candidate deciding to challenge the results (1/6/2023)
  Election Law Blog - Summary by Rick Hasen of Kari Lake decision: "Breaking: Kari Lake’s Election Contest Fails in Arizona Because of Utter Failure of Proof" (12/24/2022)
  Politico - Stolen Election in 1984 that poisoned American politics (LONG article)
  Election Law Blo g - Minor Republican Party Candidate Files Federal Lawsuit Claiming Trump Ineligible to Serve as President Because of Participation in Insurrection (1/9/2023)
  VoteBeat - Lycoming County set to begin state’s largest hand recount of the 2020 election. Here’s what to expect. (1/8/2023)
  NPR - 2022 election mail ballot rejection rates - Despite mail voting changes, ballot rejections remain relatively low in 2022 midterms (1/13/2023)
  Votebeat - How six controversies from 2022 can help Arizona fix its elections now (1/11/2023)
    Gov. Hobbs says last year’s problems, from equipment errors to the politics of certifying results, could provide a guide for improvements in 2023.
  Oregon Capitol Chronicle - Secretary of State Fagan lays out her 2023 legislative agenda (1/12/2023)
    Fagan’s seeking more funding for election oversight and to expand automatic voter registration
  Newsweek - Kari Lake Calls on Donald Trump's Help to Overturn Election Result (1/11/2023)
  Newsweek - Kari Lake Dealt Swift Blow in Latest Election Crusade (1/5/2023)
  Newsweek - Kevin McCarthy's Promise Could Backfire Spectacularly for Republicans (release all US Capitol security footage for January 6) (1/13/2023)
  The Bulwark - Why The January 6th Mob Wasn't Stopped in Time (1/11/2023)
  Yahoo/NYT - Driven by Election Deniers, Lycoming County PA Recounted 2020 Votes Last Week (1/15/2023) (via Election Law Blo g)
  Election Law Blog - “Cartels” Control Arizona and Stole the Gubernatorial Election from Her, Kari Lake Claims without Evidence (also via MSN/Newsweek)
  New Jersey Glob e - N.J. county will seek court-ordered recount after voting machines produced erroneous election results (via Election Law Blog) (1/18/2023)
    See also New Jersey Globe - Vote machine tabulation error shifts one local race in Monmouth after irregularities discovered (1/17/2023)
  CNN - Top Arizona election official requests investigation of Kari Lake for potential campaign violation (1/31/2023)
  CNN - Fact check: Kari Lake’s continuing false Arizona election claims (1/31/2023)
Election Organizations
  FairVote - FairVote is a nonpartisan organization working for better elections for all. We research and advance voting reforms that make democracy more functional and representative for every American, with a focus on two key reforms: ranked choice voting and the Fair Representation Act.
Exercise
  FitFounder - Twitter thread on better core exercises than situps and crunches
  Gizmodo - Six Minute Abs (exercises from Tim Ferriss' "The Four Hour Body")
Feminism
  Annie Mueller - What Feminism Means to Me
    Quotes:
    Feminism is about taking down the cage. Removing the controls. Opening up the door. Restoring the full array of possibility to every human.
    What it requires of men is only this: step back. Quit guarding the doors.
    What it gives to women is all of this: the whole world.
Food
  Eater.com - Where to grab pizza by the slice in Portland, Oregon
  Eater.com - Where to get great bagels in Portland, Oregon
  Simon Willison - Recipe for "Tommy's Margarita"
  Eater.com - Portland, Oregon's iconic dishes (26 restaurants featured)
History
  Timothy Snyder - Open lecture on history of Ukraine (link to first class session video)
  I-Programmer: Computer pioneer Kathleen Booth dead at 100
Hugo
  Bryce Wray - Really Getting Started with Hugo
    Excellent post pointing out problems with the Hugo static site generator "Quick Start" page, showing how to set up a site without a theme
    Slightly shorter version here
  Infinite Ink - Easy Way to Play With a Hugo Theme’s Example Site
    EXCELLENT post showing how to activate the "exampleSite" in many Hugo themes - awesome!
  Ibby EL-Serafy - How to Build a Blog — A Complete Beginner’s Guide to Hugo
    Step by step guide to creating a whole website with Hugo
Knowledge
  The Marginalian - 14 ways to acquire Knowledge by James Mangan
  Harold Jarche - Learning and innovating networks
  Harold Jarche - Strategic Doing is designed for open, loosely coupled networks
  Harold Jarche - Strategic Doing — getting to metamodernity
    Outlines the 10 steps in the Strategic Doing book
  Strategic Doing - Strategic Doing teaches people how to form collaborations quickly, move them toward measurable outcomes and make adjustments along the way. In today’s world, collaboration is essential to meet the complex challenges we face.
Journalism
  Journalism and Media - Call for papers for issue on podcast journalism, link is to announcement, papers due May 2023 (via Andrew Bottomley)
  The Oregonian - Publishing Prejudice: The Oregonian's Racist Legacy (via Ben Werdmuller)
    Hard to believe they are addressing this, but refreshing! This is the primary newspaper in the Portland, Oregon metro area
  News Deserts - Site by UNC Journalism School
  Saving Community Journalism - Companion site to the book
Learning
  RaspberryPi.org - Non-formal learning activities: What do we know and how do we apply it to computing?
    To find out what works in non-formal computing learning, we’ve conducted two research projects recently: a systematic literature review, and a set of two interventions that were applied and evaluated as part of our Gender Balance in Computing programme. In this blog, we outline these two research projects.
  Online Course Collectives - An online course collective (OCC) is a group of people who choose a single free online course to take together, and then meet regularly for rich discussion, review, and encouragement.
  Harold Jarche - The Fifth Discipline Redux - Looking back at the Peter Senge book
  Harold Jarche - To do social learning, start planting (publishing, putting yourself out there)
Linux
  FreeCodeCamp - Linux for Ethical Hackers (video playlist, first video is 2 hr long)
Music
  Laughing Squid - Impressive cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody" on recorders!
  Adam Gussow - How To Play Blues Harmonica – Absolute Beginner | Day 1 (15 min YouTube)
  Modern Blues Harmonica - Adam Gussow site
  Play Ukulele By Ear - Jim D'ville ukulele lessons site (mostly free)
  BobDylan.com - Interview by Slate Magazine about his latest book "The Philosophy of Modern Song"
Podcasts
  Politics
    Democracy Works - from Penn State U/McCourtney Institute for Democracy
Podcasting
  Resources
    John Spencer - Five Reasons to Pilot Student Podcasting Projects (it's easy, gets everyone involved, etc)
    Podcast Index - Open index of podcasts (more description in this Medium article)
      The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem.
      We do this by enabling developers to have access to an open, categorized index that will always be available for free, for any use.
    Preserve This Podcast - Podcast series about preserving the assets used to produce podcasts (and the podcasts themselves)
      I comment on this series here
    NASA - Do-It-Yourself Podcast instructions
    NPR - Starting Your Podcast: A Guide for Students
    Artur Piszek - How to start your own podcast on WordPress.com
    John Spencer - Podcasting Can Work in Any Subject (gives 20 ideas for student podcasts)
    Scripting News - The question that podcasting asks: "Find me something good to listen to now."
      Actually, in the post, it is structured as "what podcasting needs is a quick easy answer to this question
  History
    DaveNet - Initial description of early meeting with Adam Curry at a Scripting News meetup, includes description of "the last mile" (2000)
    The Two-Way Web - Payloads for RSS - Initial description of podcasting technology (January 2001)
    Grateful Dead Podcast Feed - Creation date of May 18, 2001
    Adam Curry - Description of podcasting for a session at BloggerCon in 2004
    Adam Curry - Post on Radio Userland talking about the start of podcasting (October 2004)
    Scripting News - More info on early podcasting (people/timeline) (2005)
    Scripting News - The origin of podcasting (2010)
      References the meeting with Adam Curry, and also this post on "virtual bandwidth", which has more detail on the Adam Curry meeting in 2001
    Harvard/Berkman Center - Essay on Dave Winer/Chris Lydon collaboration (2010)
    Scripting News - No silos - comments on the rise of podcasting companies trying to lock in users (2017)
    Scripting News - An addendum to the creation story of podcasting (2017)
      Mentions Adam Curry, Doug Kaye, Chris Lydon among others
    Scripting News - Podcasts are feeds. If there is no feed, it's not a podcast (2018)
    Scripting News - CBC podcast on the origin of podcasting (2017)
    Andy Sylvester - Comments on "Alternate Histories of Podcasting" podcast (Radio Survivor), pointing out that Andrew Bottomley's research on audio file usage on the Internet was not podcasting (no RSS feed! see Podcasts Are Feeds item) (2018)
    Scripting News - Twenty years ago in podcasting (2021)
      Dave Winer's side of the story in how podcasting got started, also references Podnews story on first podcast feed
    Podnews - The story of the first podcast feed (2021)
      Covers first meeting between Dave Winer and Adam Curry in 2001 and first feed using Grateful Dead songs
Politics
  The Federalist - The Continuing Persecution of Jack Phillps
    Colorado baker who would not bake specialty items in conflict with his religious beliefs (I think the same thing happened in Oregon, need to check on that)
  New York Magazine - Cleta Mitchell Is Training Thousands of Trump Loyalists to Monitor the Polls on Election Day - What could go wrong?
    Another lawyer working to subvert our electoral process (was on the call to Raffensberger in January 2021)
  CNN - What could happen if an election denier is running elections
    Reviews Kari Lake candidacy in Arizona, and electoral issues in Arizona and New Mexico during the primaries
  Joyce Vance - Review of what people can do to get involved in the midterm elections
  PressWatchers - Let the media and the public see the Jan. 6 committee’s “mountain of evidence” – now!
    Dan Froomkin continues to beat the drum to get the Jan 6 committee to release their data
    Quote: "Whatever news outfit offers citizens the first and/or best way for citizens to organize, annotate, highlight, and submit key facts from the supporting material will earn a lot of attention, and for good reason."
  Mother Jones - How Wisconsin Became the GOP’s Laboratory for Dismantling Democracy
    Fascinating (and horrifying) story of how gerrymandering led to almost total control of the state by Republicans
  The Atlantic - Only The GOP Celebrates Political Violence
  Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal - 'Innuendos and baseless allegations': Milwaukee claps back after Ron Johnson sows doubts about early voting in the city
    Johnson tries to spread fake news!
  AP News - Nevada officials begin unprecedented hand count of ballots (Nye County)
    Nevada Supreme Court issues order to prohibit circulation/broadcast of interim results (via Election Law Blog)
  Foundation for Economic Education - 4 Reasons Why Gun Control Can't Solve America's Gun Violence Problem
    Need to check out these items:
    1. Suicide is the Central Problem of American Gun Violence
    2. Partner and Familial Violence Are a Huge Part of the Problem
    3. The War on Drugs Can't Be Overlooked
    4. Guns Don’t Beget Violence, Poverty and Despair Do
  The Federalist - October 2022 border arrests are 3rd highest in US history
  McCourtney Institute for Democracy - Based at Penn State University
    The McCourtney Institute for Democracy draws from the humanities and social sciences to examine democracy from multiple angles. This cross-discipline collaboration is evident in our research, education, and outreach efforts.
    Hosts the Democracy Works podcast
  American Enterprise Institute - New report on presidential continuity of government
  The Federalist - YouTube Censored User After He Published Democrats’ 2016 ‘Stolen Election’ Claims
    YouTube deleted the video comparing Trump’s statements questioning the 2020 election results to Democrats questioning the 2016 contest.
  Bruce Schneier - Reimagining Democracy
    A 2 day workshop The idea was to bring together people from a variety of disciplines who are all thinking about different aspects of democracy, less from a “what we need to do today” perspective and more from a blue-sky future perspective.
    Comments on this post is a summary of all the panels - excellent!
  Patrick Leahy - 2023 Omnibus Spending Bill Overview
  January 6th Committee - Final report
  The Atlantic - An Ousted Trump Target on Leaving Congress (Jaime Herrera-Beutler)
    Outgoing Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler reflects on the forces that ended her 12-year term, and what might have been different.
  Washington Examiner - Democratic dark money juggernaut behind Biden-allied group targeting House GOP
Productivity
  Akshad Singi/Medium - 4 Unsexy One Minute Habits that Save Me About 30+ hours per week
    Time-block your day the night before.
    Then, micro-visualize the same schedule in the morning.
    When it’s time to work, speak out loud, “5–4–3–2–1: Eat the frog!” Eat the biggest frog in the morning.
    And then, start a timer to make sure you stay anchored to the work at hand.
Programming
  ExploringJS - Free books for Javascript programmers, written by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
  Eloquent Javascript - 3rd edition, free online
  Test Driven Development with Python - Free book from O'Reilly, focuses on Django development (also has a cute phrase "Obey The Testing Goat"!)
Python
  PyQuantNews - Twitter thread on Python videos to learn how to do Python programming for stock trading (sounds "ugh" but could be useful)
Racism
  CNN - Othered - How racism, xenophobia, and discrimination were woven into the fabric of the United Kingdom (interactive)
Resilience
  Dave Pollard/How to Save The World - How do we teach the skills need to face collapse? (via Resilience.org)
    Pollard lists soft skills and hard skills, and also asks a set of questions:
    What’s the most effective way to voluntarily get billions of people to the point they are capable of exercising the above skills?
    How do we get the timing right: Not so early that there’s not yet a sense of urgency, but not so late that we’re trying to do it in an environment of chaos?
    How might we begin to identify, improve the competencies of, and empower the right people to do the mentoring, teaching, training, demonstrating, connecting, modelling, and other hands-on imparting of knowledge and skills needed to make it happen?
    How can we make this new, crucial learning easier, and fun?
  Sharable - Sri Lanka’s untold story of resilience: Sarvodaya’s pathway can work anywhere(via Resilience.org)
    Fascinating story about how symbiotic networks were built and how they grew
    Quote: "Sarvodaya’s “secret sauce” is twofold: Forming networks of local organization through the personal awakening of participants, and using that as the foundation for building bioregional ecosystems."
  Transition Together - Portland in the UK revitalizes community to plant trees, save seeds, other concrete actions of resilience (via Resilience.org)
  Resilience.org - The Year in Which I Grow Our Food
    Introduction to a series where a person describes her effort to grow food for her family
  Hexayurt.com - Designs for building hexayurts for emergency shelter and other purposes
  My Hope For the World - Seminar by Vinay Gupta (inventor of the hexayurt)
    Hope for the World is a seminar on humanitarian design. It explains what we, as mostly first world designers, can hope to do for the poor. It examines our assets, and how we could find success for everybody on earth.
  Doug Englebart - Bootstrapping Organizations Into the 21st Century - A Strategic Framework
  Energy Transition Show - EROI of RE (Renewable Energy) (via Resilience.Org) (24 min podcast)
  Elizabeth Anker - The Daily 21 - The time to de-grow and adapt is now (via Resilience.org)
    A rejoinder to feedback from the post Negative Feedback
    Time to start localizing and figuring out how to adapt in a declining world
  Resilience.org - Part 1 of "Meet The Farmer-Bakers Proving Their Skills" (husband and wife running a farm and baking bread, farming resiliance in France)
  Resilience.org - Part 2 "Meet The Farmer-Bakers Proving Their Skills"
  The Guardian - Is America suffering a social recession?
  Dave Pollard/How to Save The World - Updated poster of "Coping with Collapse"
RSS
  Scripting News - How to reboot RSS
  Scripting News - Two more things on rebooting RSS
  Berkman Center - RSS spec
  Feedle - Blog/podcast search engine
  All About RSS - Big list of resources for RSS
    This is a list of RSS related stuff. Every single sentence in isRSSdead.com has been extended into exact apps, tools and services recorded in this list. Contents mainly organized based on the posts in the Telegram Channel @AboutRSS (in Chinese).
  Awesome Open Source - The top 6,000+ RSS open source projects
Science
  Systems Biology Markup Language - SBML is a software data format for describing models in biology. It’s a little like HTML, but for formal models instead of web pages. It’s independent of any particular software tool and not limited to any particular field of the life sciences. It’s open and free.
  COmputational Modeling in BIology NEtwork (COMBINE) - an initiative to coordinate the development of the various community standards and formats for computational models.
Software Engineering
  Simon Willison - Software engineering practices
    I decided to flesh some of my replies out into a longer post.
      Documentation in the same repo as the code
      Mechanisms for creating test data
      Rock solid database migrations
      Templates for new projects and components
      Automated code formatting
      Tested, automated process for new development environments
      Automated preview environments
  Simon Willison - Coping strategies for the serial project hoarder
    His proposal is to ensure that every project has comprehensive documentation and automated tests.
  James Bennett - Boring Python: Code Quality
    This is the second in a series of posts I intend to write about how to build, deploy, and manage Python applications in as boring a way as possible.
  Greg Wilson - Sessioncasting: Teaching Programming with Replay, Voiceover, and Branching
  Greg Wilson - Software Engineering Research Topics
  Quanta Magazine - Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence (via Wired.com)
  Phil Koopman - Computer-Based System Safety Essential Reading List
    Here is a quick start resource guide for computer-based system safety literacy. If you work on computer-based system safety and you aren't familiar with the below case studies, you really need to read them. (Not just safety engineers -- everyone!)
Tools
  ResearchBuzz.me - Posting by Tara Calashain on new site for her Javascript search tools (SearchGizmos.com)
  RunYourOwn.Social - How to run a small social network for your friends (focuses on Mastodon)
  Simon Willison - Action Transcription - A tool to run caption extraction against online videos using Whisper and GitHub Issues/Actions
  Online Journalism Blog - Guest post by Tara Calashain on 5 search tools she created for journalists
  Yahoo Finance - Jack Dorsey's Bluesky Social app: What we know so far
    I also posted some info here on the protocol work
  Ton Zijlstra - WordPress + IndieWeb as the OS of the Open Social Web
    Presentation by Ton calling for incorporating Webmention and other Indieweb technologies into WordPress core
  Pipes - A new version of the Yahoo Pipes feed filtering tool
  YouTube - Friends build castle in France with only simple tools from the Middle Ages (27 min video) (project website here)
  Bullet Journal - A sketchbook by Sacha Chua - neat!
  Phillip James - Describes toolset he used to digitize 55,000 pages of civic meetings
  Kevin Marks - Mockup of a possible Memex
  CNN - 4 steps to complete your goals
  Conor O'Neill - Empowering Citizen Non-Developers (talks about Excel and other consumer programs as development tools)
  Robin Sloan - Specifying Spring 83
    Seems like a specification to create HTM content like a "board" (think like "comic book ads")
    Github repo here
  John Borthwick - 9 tools for thought that got funding from THINKCamp accelerator program
  Molly White - Static timeline generator (link to Github repo). Examples: Twitter Is Going Great, Web3 Is Doing Great, link to personal site, blog
  Tumblr - Beginner's Guide to the IndieWeb
  Audible Converter - Web app that can convert Audible AAX format files to MP3 and other formats (via Trevor Manternach)
  Matt Webb - Let’s use spreadsheets to rewire apps and make new ones
  Tim Hartford - The Tyranny of Spreadsheets (looking at effect of spreadsheet errors)
  Packy McCorkmick (Substack) - Excel Never Dies - The Spreadsheet That Launched A Million Companies
    The Excel version of how "software eats the world"
  TogetherNet - TogetherNet is an open-source software that invites groups of 10 or fewer participants to build community archives through practices of consent.
  Ravi Sagar - Publishing with Org Mode for 3 Years (embedded video) (post from his blog describing publishing with Org Mode)
  WordPress
    WPeMatico - Plugin to allow inbound RSS feed to publish as posts (like Micro.blog)
  Mastodon
    Ruth Tillman - Mastodon Introduction and Overview for GLAM
    Research Buzz - A large list of Mastodon resources, I read through a few, looks very helpful
    FediTips - A list of resources for beginners (list of Mastodon account posts, website is here)
    Axel Rauschmayer - Getting Started With Mastodon - published 10/22/2022, updated 11/5/2022 with more information on searching, finding accounts, being found, direct messages, etc.
    Per Axbom - A Brief Mastodon Guide for Social Media Worriers
    Nikodemus Siivola - Nikodemus' Guide to Mastodon (10 page Google doc, lots of step-by-step info)
    Simon Willison - Documenting his move to Mastodon, and how he is going to use Datasette and some of his other tools to explore the Fediverse
    Karlin Lillington - Some useful guides to Mastodon
    John Bull - Interesting Twitter thread on another person's journey to Mastodon, mentions some tools he used in his journey
    Per Axbom - The Many Branches of the Fediverse
      Diagram/lists of different software applications that support ActivityPub
    Clive Thompson - A how-to guide for joining the rapidly-growing social network
    SearchGizmos - Create RSS feeds of hashtag searches for seven Mastodon instances
    Matthias Ott - Syndicating Posts from Your Personal Website to Twitter and Mastodon
    TechDirt - Why would anyone use another centralized social media service after this?
      Mike Masnick comments on the rise of Mastodon, risks of major players moving into the market, and realization that people could set up their own servers instead of worrying about finding a Mastodon instance they like
    Software Mill - The architecture of Mastodon
  ActivityPub
    ActivityPub Rocks! - An introduction site to the ActivityPub protocol
    Github - ActivityPub tutorial
    Social.ActivityPubRocks! - An introduction to ActivityPub
    Aaron Parecki - ActivityPub and OAuth 2.1 (presentation at ActivityPub Conference 2020)
    IndieWeb.org - ActivityPub page
    JoinMastodon.org - How to implement an ActivityPub server
    Mozilla Hacks - Decentralizing Social Interactions with ActivityPub (overview of ActivityPub using a reference implementation of an ActivityPub server)
    Darius Kazemi - A highly opinionated guide to learning about ActivityPub
      This document is for programmers who take one look at activitypub.rocks, click on through to the documentation, and can't make heads or tails of it.
      In other words this document is for me, one year ago.
      IMPORTANT NOTE: This document does not explain ActivityPub. It explains how to learn about ActivityPub.
    Darius Kazem i - RSS to ActivityPub server
    CodeVerse - A curated list of developer resources related to ActivityPub and the Fediverse.
    LWN.net - Microblogging with ActivityPub
    Aeracode.org - Understanding a protocol (comments on implementing an ActivityPub server - Takahe)
  rssCloud
    Home.rsscloud.co - new home page for rssCloud protocol
    walkthrough.rsscloud.co - Description of a reference implementation of rssCloud
    rssCloudServer - New instance of rssCloud server available for testing (source at Github)
    Github - test script for aggregator part of rssCloud implementation
    Dave Winer - What does rssCloud mean to you? An essay talking about the utility of distributing updates on feeds/data (Sept 2009)
    Tumblr - Dave Winer RSS Cloud Tumblr blog
    WordPress.com - Support page for rssCloud feature
    This.how - What is RSS Cloud? A simple answer from Dave Winer
    Scott Hanson - Pinging RSS Cloud with a static blog (example Javascript code/method)
  Emacs
    EmacsNG - A new approach to Emacs
      The goal of this fork is to explore new development approaches. To accomplish this, we aim to maintain an inclusive and innovative environment. The project is not about replacing elisp with a more popular language like Javascript. We just want to make emacs more approachable for people who don't like lisp as much as we do.
    Mastering Emacs - Reading Guide
Thinking
  Zettlekasten.de - How Richard Feynman achieved brilliance
  Farnam Street - How to Think Better: The Skill You've Never Been Taught
  Foundation for Economic Education - How To Create Like A Bastiat: Study To Create, Capture Your Ideas, Write Out Your Ideas, Share Your Understanding
Writing
  Josh Bernoff/Without Bullshit Blog - Why you're not a writer (yet)
    Good reminder of how you have to start writing to be a writer. I am working to publish something of note on my blog every day....
  Miris - Don't just write in plain text (longevity/authenticity)
    Puts forward the idea that other formats can be used in writing
    Quote: "This is why, instead of forcing plain text upon everything, I try capture and preserve data in the formats which store as much information as possible."
  Josh Bernoff/Without Bullshit Blog - How to Write a Book
    Outline of major steps in writing a book, helps break it down into manageable pieces
  Josh Bernoff/Without Bullshit Blog - Everything You Need To Know to Write and Publish A Book
    Less info on how to write the book, but lots of info on how to go about publishing a book
  The Finanz - 30 Lessons I Learned From Shipping 30 Atomic Essays for 30 Days
    Feedback on publishing 30 essays in 30 days based on the Ship 30 for 30 program (without buying the program)
  Divio - The Documentation System
    There is a secret that needs to be understood in order to write good software documentation: there isn’t one thing called documentation, there are four.
    They are: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation. They represent four different purposes or functions, and require four different approaches to their creation. Understanding the implications of this will help improve most documentation - often immensely.
  Josh Bernoff/Without Bullshit Blog - How can you blog every day? Some talking points/writing points... (Nov 2022)
  Josh Bernoff/Without Bullshit Blog - What did you learn today? And would you blog it? (Nov 2021)
  John Scalzi - Weaving The Artisan Web
    How do we get back to writing the web?
    1. Create/reactivate your own site, owned by you, to hold your own work.
    2. When you create that site, write or otherwise present work on your site at least once a week, every week.
    3. Regularly visit the sites of other creators to read/see/experience the work they present there.
    4. Promote/link the work of others, on your own site and also on your other social media channels where you have followers. Encourage your followers to explore more widely, beyond the algorithmic borders of “social media.”
  Gov.UK - A simple guide on words to avoid in government - An essay on plain writing
Work
  Matt Gray - Twitter thread on 9 best places in the world for doing remote work (quite spread out - would be fun to work from Bali!)
  The Atlantic - A World Without Work (2015) - looks at the beginnings of the gig economy and less permanent work
Zettelkasten
  Zettelkasten.de - Getting started series
  Tomas Vik - Zettelkasten note taking after one year
  Rebecca Williams - The Zettelkasten Method: Examples to help you get started.
  Raymond Sims - My Minimalist Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS)
  Chris Aldrich - Differentiating Online Variations of the Commonplace Book
  Chris Aldrich - Reframing and Simplifying The Idea of How to Keep A Zettelkasten
  Chris Aldrich - New book "How to Make Notes and Write" now available
    Can be downloaded for free from Minnesota StateU
    This expanded edition has several new chapters on note making (notice that this is dramatically different than note taking) using a zettelkasten-based (or card index or fichier boîte if you prefer) approach...
  Analog Office - A Paper Zettelkasten for Nonfiction Writing (uses "How to Make Notes and Write" book mentioned in this zettelkasten)
  Chris Aldrich - Call for Model Examples of Zettelkasten Output Processes
  Ton Zijlstra - A Practice for Note Card System Outputs (response to Chris Aldrich post), gives examples of what Ton has produced from his Markdown notes
  Complete.org - Example site used for my Hugo-based zettelkasten
  Fluency - The Hugo theme for my Hugo-based zettelkasten