Bits

Using #art as a medium to promote digital #literacy among young people in #Mexico https://tacticaltech.org/news/stories/partners-impact-story-cauce-ciudadano/

Cathode Retro is a collection of shaders that combine to emulate the properties and artifacts of a color NTSC TV signal as well as the visual look of a Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT) TV https://github.com/DeadlyRedCube/Cathode-Retro

“This is me saying we’ve worked on #tumblr for four years with ~200 people full-time, and spent well north of $100M above revenue trying to turn the site around, but it hasn’t yet. That sucks, but I also want to recognized the effort of everyone who tried and gave their best.” https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/733551497286172672/translation-of-internalspeak-to-externalspeak

he careened from drug-running pilot to alleged CIA asset, only to be reborn as the pioneering computer programmer known as the father of data fusion. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250209276/thehankshow

Sound & Music

The #wfmu @wfmu #ambient #country Festival Tee https://suss.bandcamp.com/merch/ambient-country-festival-tee

One year, he was just different. He traded in his red baseball cap for a tartan beret, grew a huge handlebar mustache, and let his hair grow out. Not long, exactly, but certainly on the long side for an attorney. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/thanksgiving-is-always-ruined-by-that-one-uncle-obsessed-with-steely-dan

“There were so many people at #bandcamp who were musicians themselves, or knew musicians or operated labels or made vinyl for people. I worry that this multinational corporation swooping in to buy Bandcamp and lay off half the staff maybe doesn’t fully understand what Bandcamp was.” https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Faftermath.site%2Fbandcamp-just-trying-to-keep-the-lights-on-following-epic-sale-layoffs

Politics & Economics

When #canada created its own pension plan, in 1965, to address the growing poverty of retired Canadians sixty-five and older—thank you, Lester B. Pearson, for my monthly CPP cheque—the life expectancy of men, who made up the bulk of the workforce, was sixty-eight. https://thewalrus.ca/the-end-of-retirement/

“Higher Education for Good courageously offers critique, hope, and purpose for the practice and the trajectory of #highereducation ” https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363