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"Everybody does fandom differently. Fandom is not fanworks fandom. It is not media fandom, SF fandom, or whatever fandom. It is all of these things and more. There exist fandoms and ways of doing fandom that you have never heard of. Fandom is mindbogglingly huge and varied - I'm constantly discovering new fandoms, and new fannish activities. All of these ways of doing Fandom are valid."

"WASHINGTON—With the United States facing a daunting array of problems at home and abroad, leading historians courteously reminded the nation Thursday that when making tough choices, it never hurts to stop a moment, take a look at similar situations from the past, and then think about whether the decisions people made…"

In the dreamlike scene, star trails arc over an old ship run aground on a beach near Gytheio, Peloponnesus in southern Greece.
Photo by Chris Kotsiopoulos

"a single-user bookmarking website designed to live on the Fediverse - GitHub - ckolderup/postmarks: a single-user bookmarking website designed to live on the Fediverse"
Obviously I'm still using it. Review: https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/postmarks/

"A case for abandoning web analytics"

"The movie’s villain, The High Evolutionary, should more accurately be called “The High Eugenicist.”"
"The essential problem with eugenics is that some people take upon themselves the privilege of deciding who is fit, to live and to reproduce, and who is not."

"Open Source has never really addressed the challenges of mobile and cloud computing. In the AI era, we can’t afford to make the same mistake." - OpenSource.net

"In ‘Holy Food,’ Christina Ward examines how our belief systems end up on the plate." - Atlas Obscura