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This looks very nice -- like a long-overdue replacement for crush3r.com, which I was very fond of ca. 2011. Keep it up!

In a similar vein, I recently read this piece on the imaginary of "acid communism" and why it might be desirable. I can't say I was convinced by it, but I did learn a lot from it.

https://communemag.com/cybergothic-acid-communism-now/

Sure, but that's a weird publication of hers to take issue with. For context (from Wikipedia):

> In a paper entitled "The Five Sexes", in which, according to her, "I had intended to be provocative, but I had also written with tongue firmly in cheek." Fausto-Sterling laid out a thought experiment considering an alternative model of gender containing five sexes: male, female, merm, ferm, and herm. This thought experiment was interpreted by some as a serious proposal or even a theory; advocates for intersex people stated that this theory was wrong, confusing and unhelpful to the interests of intersex people. In a later paper ("The Five Sexes, Revisited"), she has acknowledged these objections.

I doubt there's much desire around here to argue the merits of gender studies in good faith. However, those proclaiming that gender scholarship doesn't get biology, I suggest you pick up Evelyn Fox Keller's excellent book Making Sense of Life (HUP, 2002) and allow yourselves to be surprised.

(Yes, Keller is a physicist, not a biologist. Those trying to belittle or dismiss what women's studies has accomplished will probably use that to disqualify her contribution...)

There was a discussion only recently about "no-nonsense" themes for Jekyll et al.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20266932

Note that people's definitions of what constitutes a minimalist/no-nonsense theme seem to differ, with some emphasizing appearance, others dependencies and elegance of the generated code.

Ahem... Do you know about Anne Fasto-Sterling or Donna Haraway? They are both highly credentialed biologists and pivotal figures in the development of women's/gender studies.

There are talks by the creators presented at FOSDEM that go into the development of the workflow language.

https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/guixworkflowm...

https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/guixinfra/

Beaker Browser has (a version of) this feature -- you can specify a donate link for your dat site, and the browser then displays a heart button that takes you to that page.

FWIW, the best book I ever read at the beach was The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead.

Enjoy your vacation!

I can think of a locality that is covered by a higher number of geographic gTLDs: Cologne, Germany, has .cologne, .koeln, .nrw, .de, and .eu.

(But, granted, Barcelona actually has .bcn as well.)

Nicely done!

In case people are visiting the discussion looking for more no-nonsense Jekyll theme recommendations, I recently came across this beautiful collection that seems to fit the bill: https://mademistakes.com/work/jekyll-themes/

In this recent essay, Darius Kazemi suggests that Scuttlebutt and Dat (as well as Activitypub) should be regarded as complementary efforts rather than as re-decentralization silver bullets: https://blog.datproject.org/2019/03/22/three-protocols-and-a...

Perhaps pweave, which is like knitr for Python.

http://mpastell.com/pweave/

Sounds like you might also want to keep eyes on another of Butterick's projects, a document processor called Quad, which creates documents directly, i.e., without going the (La)TeX route.

Repository: https://github.com/mbutterick/quad

Documentation: https://docs.racket-lang.org/quad/

Of course that depends on what kinds of assets you serve and how many hits you get, but to provide a ballpark, I had a small personal site with few media assets on S3, and it consistently cost me US$0.12 per month. I think once it cost me 14 cents and I thought, "Wow, I must've been popular last month!"

I didn't run analytics so I can't say how many hits it got, but traffic was probably fairly average for a personal site.

I think that would be history, Huizinga's "home" discipline.

This I have also found to be the case, though ultimately I also focused more on learning Racket because, coming from Python, I was used to a more "batteries included" experience.

Russell Jacoby's The Last Intellectuals (1987) is a book about how the humanities and social sciences professionalized and lost their grander vision. Essentially Jacoby claims that gentrification and the expansion of academia killed the figure of the independent "public" intellectual.

Some of the books he holds up as examples of intellectual (rather than academic) engagement are Jane Jacob's Death and Life of Great American Cities, William Whyte's Organization Man, C. Wright Mills' White Collar, Murray Bookchin's The Limits of the City, and Lewis Mumford's The City in History. I think most of these would be good candidates for "undead" status.

A few years ago there was an interesting symposium revisiting the argument in light of changes in the public sphere: https://www.chronicle.com/specialreport/After-The-Last/16

The repository is here: https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser

If you want to try it out while the API is still accessible, visit https://mercurizer.herokuapp.com/

Here's a little write-up from somebody who uses Racket in production in a commercial web product: https://www.greghendershott.com/2018/05/extramaze-llc-using-...

Here's another example, the Journal of Machine Learning Research, where the cost of publishing an article works out to about $10: https://blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-j... (previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15280736)

ha, love it!

I've been wanting to watch it since seeing it described as "a Marxist fantasy" in this essay: https://www.eater.com/2018/10/19/17995884/salt-fat-acid-heat...

Syndication is already there; this example from the demo instance might not survive for long, but it works right now: https://pencil.writefree.ly/foo/feed/

Your "challenge" isn't difficult at all. Just look at every EU country where Christian democrats and other conservative parties neither trump up stories of voter fraud nor pursue policies to keep young people, women, urban dwellers or gays from voting, even though that "hurts" them (because their voters tend to be older, straight men in rural areas). This may be changing with the rise of far-right parties, but hasn't been much of an issue thus far [1].

The Brian Kemps of this world really are exceptionally malicious, and your attempts to normalize their behavior are completely misguided.

1: https://us.boell.org/2017/11/01/achtung-voter-suppression-co...

Wikimatrix.org provides a comparison of solutions. Here are hosted solutions that support wysiwyg, your own domain and custom branding (minus Wikia):

https://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/BrainKeeper%2BCentralDesk...

Use the wizard to narrow down choices.

These options look like the highlights to me:

Zoho Wiki: https://www.zoho.eu/wiki/pricing.html

PBwiki: https://www.pbworks.com/wikis.html

According to the BBC:

> Workers in the US will be paid $15 an hour, compared to the minimum wage of $7.25.

> Those in the UK will be paid £9.50, or £10.50 in London, compared to the minimum UK wage rate of £7.83 for over 25s and £7.38 for those aged 21 to 24.

> The move will benefit 250,000 workers in the US, and 17,000 in the UK, and an estimated 20,000 seasonal workers.

> The increase will apply from 1 November to all staff, full and part-time, as well as temporary and seasonal workers.

> The company also said it would press for a change to the US minimum wage level.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45717768

More contemporarily, George Herbert Mead's influence is based mainly on his transcribed lectures contained in Man, Self and Society. Mead wrote a good deal during his lifetime, but always relatively short pieces that he never bothered to compile together into books or programmatic statements of his philosophical position.

> Piwik is a popular open-source alternative.

Now called Matomo (https://matomo.org/).

I was a Soverin customer for a year but recently made the switch to Fastmail. I really wanted to like them, but sadly it seems like Soverin is content with their product being in a (barely) beta state. During the year that I used them, there were no improvements to spam filtering (which is abysmal), single sign on (nonexistent), reliability (poor, particularly for caldav) or filtering rules, to name just a few pain points. Their customer service was super responsive, but usually just to tell me that whatever I was asking about (flagging false positives, filtering mail based on an address pattern) wasn't supported.

Soverin, please look at what Fastmail is doing and try to get at least 80% as good. The world needs more fastmails.