Cory Doctorow succinctly explains how Facebook and other large, democracy-destroying, trust-eroding, hate-filled tech companies work.
Category: Dealing with Things
Slavery was racist – Hank Green
Hank Green does a great job explaining racism and the current culture of people with status being – and I’m being generous here – confused by it.
Adam Savage: Advice on Enduring Today’s Uncertain, Hostile Times
Wikimedia Commons Vanity Stats
I made a thing. It allows you to see how many media requests your files have received on Wikimedia Commons. It’s a vanity project and the numbers don’t mean much without more context. 🙂
It’s a small python script that allows you to provide a username, date range, and a number of files to check. It then uses the MedaiWiki and mediarequests APIs to create a .csv file of how many media requests those files have received. I did this for my own ego, so a literal vanity project!
If this sounds interesting, I’d appreciate any constructive feedback. Not sure I’ll work on it more than I have, but thought I’d share.
On dressing well
The brute covers himself, the rich man or fop adorns himself, and the elegant man dresses.
Honoré de Balzac