a few notes on al-mawasi and what makes it special beyond the massacres in the headlines, because i so very much hate the way these place names become decontextualized signifiers of horror and atrocity.
It’s wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles.
Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well.
Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit (which now ironically sells its data to AI companies) - all by the age of 26.
All he wanted was free and open access to information. Really makes you wonder the dent he’d have made on the world if he was still alive today.
DISABILITY DIVEST. As "Disability Pride Month" begins in the U.S., we demand the U.S. disability establishment end its relationships with war profiteers.
There is no disability justice without a #FreePalestine.
#DisabilityDivest
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