Today’s links Saturday linkdump, part the sixth: The new digital disorder. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Saturday linkdump, part the sixth (permalink) I usually write this blog 5-6 days/week, but every now and again, I take a break, and when I do, I get massive link backlogs of stuff I want to write about, but lack the time to address in depth. When that happens, I turn my Saturday edition into a linkdump. Today, I present the sixth in the series – here’s the other five: https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/ Why was I offline and away from my blog? I went to the dirt rave. Yes, I was one of the 70,000+ people stuck in the mud at this year’s Burning Man, and when I emailed my editor at the New York Times to say I might be late on the op-ed I was working on, she asked me to write about what this year’s mud crisis meant: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/opinion/burning-man-flood-playa-climate-change.html tl;dr: Bad weather is normal at Burning Man (it’s a feature, not a bug); Mostly burners leapt to the occasion, which is what people almost always do in disaster situations; This is the second Burning Man heavy weather year in a row; The climate emergency is tipping the Black Rock Desert from “extremely challenging” to “impossible”; This isn’t the last event, place and tradition that will have to be radically reconsidered in light of the climate emergency; But now I’m home,…Pluralistic: Saturday linkdump, part the sixth (09 Sept 2023)