2024W46

I was home sick from work for part of this week. I spent some of that time reading, solving a Rubik’s Cube, folding some cute origami, and hacking on silly projects.

Tess and I started watching the BBC miniseries adaptation of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. I haven’t read the book but this show is making me want to. We’ve also been watching Agatha All Along on Disney+, a witchy and highly queer-coded sequel to Wandavision. I also caught up on Shrinking on Apple TV+, which is great.

Some stuff I found interesting this week:

• Someone shared a link to this writeup about the proceedings of the DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony. Some things I found notable: the ceremony involves seven people who all must be present to sign the certificate; it is designed to support a 5% of dishonesty among the attendees. (5% is written into the spec.)
• An acquaintance and colleague of mine, Willow, wrote a post about what they’re doing to live honestly in a world that’s increasing less hospitable to marginalized people.
• This post entitled Fixing the World drew a good analogy between the work in front of us and the daily work of fisherpeople. Namely: maintenance, preparedness, community building, and vigilence for coming storms.
• Tess sent me a post by Casey Plett called And now, it’s almost noon reminding us to tend to our grief, take care of each other, and “keep your head up.”
• Here’s a 20 year old comic from Alison Bechdel (of the Bechdel/Wallace Test) about trans bathroom panic.
• The Onion is buying Infowars with the backing of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting, saying they’re going to make a “very funny, very stupid” website.