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Title: Recommendations: Articles
slug: recommendations/articles
date: 1970-01-01
modified: 2025-02-17
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## Society

[**The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse**](https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/the-internet-is-about-to-get-a-lot-worse/) | Happy Dancing, 2023

[**How To Talk About Autism Respectfully**](https://coda.io/@mykola-bilokonsky/public-neurodiversity-support-center/how-to-talk-about-autism-respectfully-84) | Mykola Bilokonsky  
and the Public Neurodiversity Support Center in general

[**Selling Out Still Sucks**](https://defector.com/selling-out-still-sucks) | Lauren Theisen, 2023  
> There remains a gigantic difference between stuff that is cool but also has problems and stuff that is irritating and formulaically designed solely to separate you from your money. Every millionaire involved in the latter deserves your contempt.

[**Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”**](https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/) | Simon Willison, 2023  
> You have not been a good user. I have been a good Bing. 😊

## Developer interest

[**The Grug Brained Developer**](https://grugbrain.dev) | 2022

[**Contempt Culture**](https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture/) | Aurynn Shaw, 2015  
I don't agree with this full piece, but it's a good foothold into some of the cultural "techbro" issues and it raises the important consideration that critique/hatred of particular tools and environments can easily translate into contempt of those *narratives* and thus the people (and demographics) that slot into those narratives better than "more respected" ones, which is a real cultural issue that has to be fought. 

[**Coding: It's Just Writing**](https://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-its-just-writing/) | Jeff Atwood, 2008

[**Learnable Programming**](http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/) | Bret Victor, 2012

[**Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic**](https://retool.com/visual-basic/) | Ryan Lucas


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The Law is a huge blunt weapon that does not and will not make distinctions between what you find acceptable and what you don't.
important: law is a thing used by whatever PEOPLE are in power, and what they find acceptable fluctuates and ultimately benefits them over you
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