Today’s links Revenge of the Linkdumps: Something for the weekend, sir? This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Revenge of the Linkdumps (permalink) If you’ve followed my work for a long time, you’ve watched me transition from a “linkblogger” who posts 5-15 short hits every day to an “essay-blogger” who posts 5-7 long articles/week. I’m loving the new mode of working, but returning to linkblogging is also intensely, unexpectedly gratifying: https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/02/wunderkammer/#jubillee My last foray into linkblogging was so great – and my backlog of links is already so large – that I’m doing another one. Link the first: “Siphon,” XKCD’s delightful, whimsical “physics-how-the-fuck-does-it-work” one-shot (visit the link, the tooltip is great): https://xkcd.com/2775/ Next is “Hoogspanning,” 50 Watts’s collection of vintage Dutch workplace safety posters, which exhibit that admirable Dutch frankness to a degree that one could mistake for parody, but they’re 100% real, and amazing: https://50watts.com/Hoogspanning-More-Dutch-Safety-Posters They’re ganked from Geheugenvannederland (“Memory of the Netherlands”): https://geheugenvannederland.nl/ While some come from the 1970s, others date back to the 1920s and are likely public domain. I’ve salted several away in my stock art folder for use in future collages. All right, now that the fun stuff is out of the way, let’s get down to some crunch tech-policy. To ease us in, I’ve got a game for you to play: “Moderator Mayhem,” the latest edu-game from Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/11/moderator-mayhem-a-mobile-game-to-see-how-well-you-can-handle-content-moderation/ Moderator Mayhem started life as a card-game that Mike Masnick used to teach…Pluralistic: Revenge of the Linkdumps (13 May 2023)