“Beaker uses a peer-to-peer protocol called Hyperdrive. ‘Hyperdrives’ are like websites. They store webpages, pictures, media, user data, and so on. Hyperdrives power a lot of Beaker’s best features.
Peer-to-peer means that you host data directly from your device.
One fun attribute of peer-to-peer is ‘co-hosting.’ This is where you help keep a hyperdrive online by storing the data and contributing bandwidth to other users. It happens temporarily when you visit a hyperdrive, but you can turn it on permanently for sites you like.”
–Beaker Browser
Category: bookmarks
Counterglow
“This map shows factory farms and other animal facilities in the United States.”
–Counterglow
“The map is meant to offer a rare bird’s-eye view of the scale of the industry, while also providing a research tool for activist investigators. Kecia Doolittle, the leader of the team that created the map, is an animal rights activist who has participated in a number of farm investigations herself. Footage uncovered by Doolittle and others over the years has revealed conditions such as overcrowding; wounded, sick, and dead animals left in pens with the living; painful procedures like tail removal and castration without anesthesia; and physical abuse by farmers, at times resulting in boycotts or criminal charges.
Most recently, as The Intercept reported on Friday, activists with the organization Direct Action Everywhere captured footage of a harrowing mass kill method called ventilation shutdown. The closure of meatpacking plants due to Covid-19 outbreaks has left farmers with nowhere to take mature livestock; in response, they have exterminated millions of animals. One particularly torturous tactic involves corralling pigs into a barn, closing the doors and windows, and shutting down the ventilation system. ‘This causes the buildup of excessive temperature and moisture from body heat and respiration of the animals and results in death from hyperthermia,’ according to guidelines from the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, which endorses ventilation shutdown in ‘constrained circumstances.’
Doolittle said that despite her knowledge of the industry’s brutal practices, this method caught her off guard. ‘I didn’t believe it was real,’ she said. To Doolittle, the use of ventilation shutdown should be a call to action, and more than images are needed.”
-Alleen Brown, “Animal Rights Activists Uncover the Locations of Thousands of Factory Farms.” The Intercept. May 31, 2020.
In light of the recent protests, it is hard not to notice that the way we treat The Other, whether it be people of a different race or different species, have a commonality.
Boxabl: Tiny Homes, Furnished, Factory Built From a Shipping Container
“Las Vegas-based Boxabl wants to mass-produce low-cost housing.
The company released its first product, a 375-square-foot prefab studio apartment early this year, called the Casita. Some videos showing the unit expanding from a shipping container went viral on Twitter, and Boxabl reports huge interest in its products ever since.”
–Mary Meisenzahl, “These $50,000 tiny homes unfold out of shipping containers and can be combined into custom houses — see inside.” Business Insider. May 31, 2020.
This kind of pre-fab housing seems like part of a post-COVID-19 future. I’d also expect 3D printing at scale to be a feature.
Business Town
Business Town is a comic that attempts to “explain our highly intangible, deeply disruptive, data-driven, venture-backed, gluten-free economic meritocracy to the uninitiated” using cute animals.
Everything Is Fine Podcast
“As Gen-X women cross the Rubicon of perimenopause, they’re hungry for stories that reflect their experiences. Most OB-GYNs seem mystified by the particulars of menopause. Gwyneth Paltrow would like to Goop-ify it. Even Michelle Obama seems flummoxed by the contradictions of aging.
Enter Everything Is Fine, a new podcast co-hosted by Kim France and Tally Abecassis that nails the experience in all its highs and lows.
France, 56, has a long-running fashion and lifestyle blog called Girls of a Certain Age, and the sort of hip bona fides that only a career launched at Sassy can offer. Abecassis, 46, is a documentary filmmaker who produced the podcast First Day Back (which was featured here in 2017) and was the subject of its first season; she emailed France after reading the latter’s writing on the Cut about her time at Condé Nast (where she was the founding editor of Lucky), vanity, and dressing your age. The two women’s formidable skills as interviewers and journalists create a dynamic discussion boosted by guests like Darcey Steinke, Soraya Chemaly, Ada Calhoun, and Jane Larkworthy.
They have found themselves at the forefront of a new wave of media focused on the topic. “Somebody said to me, ‘It’s a trend,’ and I was like, ‘How could that be a trend?’ We’re here to stay,” Abecassis said. I talked to them about their podcast, ageism, women’s media, and more.
-Jenni Miller, “Everything Is Fine Wants to Change How We Talk About Aging.” Vulture.com. April 17, 2020.
The Everything is Fine website has all the usual suspects to subscribe.
The Joy of Sets: BBC Video Conference Backgrounds
“Give your video calls a makeover, with this selection of over 100 empty sets from the BBC Archive.”
The Feeling Wheel by The Gottman Institute
“Increase your emotional intelligence and awareness with this tool. You can investigate feelings related to what you’re feeling at the moment, or examine the feelings at the opposite end of the feeling to see how you might transform or alchemize your experience.”
–The Feeling Wheel
The Pudding
“The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays.”
–https://pudding.cool/
I haven’t gone into this with any depth. But, it looks interesting on a surface scan. Bookmarking.
Scarfolk Council
“Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight fever. ‘Visit Scarfolk today. Our number one priority is keeping rabies at bay.’ For more information please reread.”
–Scarfolk Council
Wonderful satire and relevant. Recommended. Scarfolk Council RSS Feed.
Indie Bookstore Finder
Indie Bookstore Finder is exactly what you’d expect it to be, and it covers the United States. Here’s one for the U.K. If anyone knows of others in other countries, I’d be interested in hearing about them in the comments.
There’s also an Comic Shop Locator, also what you’d expect.
Why should you shop at indie bookstores? They have a faq for that.
