Good Things Friday (317) and Link Love
March 21, 2025
1. We’d committed to seeing a pair of very local friends regularly this year and we have successfully hosted the second get together of the year! It was a lot of fun.
Challenges this week: this was a very hard week emotionally in so many ways.
Indigenous Food Reciprocity as a Model for Mutual Aid
The Mar/Apr 2025 – Zingerman’s Newsletter had SUCH a good piece: community is not a noun.
Oh this is awful: A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse
I didn’t remember that Bezos owns Goodreads, I never used it, but I hear Storygraph is a good alternative: ‘Reading is part of my identity’: the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon
Alexa has never been allowed in my house and never will be: Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
A trans refugee’s court case against Hungary just improved Trans+ rights across all of Europe: This week, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that under Articles 16 and 5(1)(d) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Hungarian authorities must correct “inaccurate” personal data concerning gender identity held in public registers “without undue delay”. It also ruled that the accuracy of that data couldn’t be based on whether people have had medical or surgical gender-affirming care.
I heart St Luke’s: This Hospital System Fought COVID, Then a Far-Right Leader. Now It’s Taking on Idaho’s Abortion Ban.
Not content to just lie about Social Security paying dead people (they don’t, I remember how quickly they clawed back my grandma’s payment in the same week she died), the DOGE miscreants are now administratively marking people as dead: Here’s a ‘dead’ person on Social Security in Seattle, with plenty to say
JACL condemns Trump erasure of 442nd and 100th Infantry Battalion
I don’t like the NYT but this is an important bit of history I didn’t know: This Man Won Birthright Citizenship for All
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants
