Joshua Walker

Music and Poetry of the Kesh, by Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton 13 track album

Being a nerd isn't a competition. But are you nerdier than this? ursulakleguintoddbarton.bandcamp.com/album/music-...

Anxiety and Exhaustion Stalk Those Spared From Layoffs What it’s like to be one of the “lucky” ones.

Definitely rings true for me. www.chronicle.com/article/anxi...

Also it's an #eleventy site

I'm going to soft launch buroak.club and stop trying to put coats of paint on it or it will take forever to be "ready". BurOak Club is a #webring for south-east #Michigan. Contribute your personal site. Hoping for an official launch later in the year. Re-wild the internet. #indieweb

Women running on affordability powered Democrats’ night of victories Democratic women proved effective messengers in an election focused on the rising cost of living and the effects of Trump’s second term.

Huh. Huh huh huh huh. Huhhhhhhhhhhhhh. 19thnews.org/2025/11/demo...

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris 60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are…

It is so fucking stupid. www.techdirt.com/2025/11/03/6...

ICE’s Hiring Surge Is Attracting A Bunch Of People Who Are Too Unfit (Or Too Criminal) To Work At ICE ICE can generate multiple horrible stories a day but it still can’t seem to find enough brown people to deport daily to satisfy White House advisor Stephen Miller’s demands for 3,000 ar…

"the people who can are handling an influx of people who can’t, ensuring everything behind the scenes is going just as poorly as the more visible flame-outs in ICE’s version of basic training" www.techdirt.com/2025/10/31/i...

Kids Turn Podcast Comments Into Secret Chat Rooms, Because Of Course They Do As anyone who has read Techdirt for any length of time knows full well, there’s been a years-long campaign to demonize kids and social media. Never mind that actual experts have said the data doesn…

Whut www.techdirt.com/2025/10/31/k...

No Money for Mouths, but Plenty of Money for Balls Let them eat balls! That’s basically what Trump and his Republican minions are saying about the 40 million people who are about to go hungry in this

"To be clear, Republicans literally run every branch of government right now. They have majorities in the House and Senate, the presidency, and even the Supreme Court. And yet they claim that Democrats just won’t let them open the government back up." pridesource.com/article/cree...

Pity the Nation/ Whose Shepherds Mislead Them | Common Dreams Amidst plunging polls and righteous rage at his Epstein Memorial Ballroom, the inept manchild faces growing resistance, sublime to ridiculous, to his nascent kingship. Cue anti-ICE whistle kits -…

Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
www.commondreams.org/further/pity...

11 Mischievous Facts About Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny, one of the most iconic cartoon characters of all time, has been around for three quarters of a century.

OMG "Bugs’ nonchalant, carrot-eating manner was inspired by a scene in It Happened One Night, when the fast-talking Clark Gable snacks on carrots while leaning on a fence." www.mentalfloss.com/article/6670...

The world is something that we make // Terminal “...and could just as easily make differently.”

"Spotify's purpose is to transport hundreds of millions of dollars created by musicians into the bank accounts of the owners of humanity's most advanced autonomous weapons platforms" terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-1...

I wish I made that much.

Does anyone know if the University Of Michigan Government Relations voter study data is publicly available? It must not be, right? #umich #thesegraphsaresouseless #dataviz

#dreamjournal For some reason I decided to bring some kind of amalgamation of tomato soup and stew to work in a big pot. I have no real idea how to make a stew.

Me looking at what appears to be a bag of aglets as I clean off the top of my dresser: "I don't know what these go to but they might be incredibly important. I must keep them."

A kick in my gut. Should I choose friction? Can I choose friction? phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-10... #AI

No Kings, No Violence: On the Ongoing Misrepresentation of the Left Portlanders deploying inflatable animal costumes, a brass band, mass ukulele renditions of “This Land Is Your Land,” naked bike rides, and other tactics in their ICE protests are undermining the…

"I find that the most overlooked aspect of violence is its entitlement, the idea that the perpetrator has the right to harm and even take a life. Such arrogance is at odds with many left-wing ideas about human rights, equality, and justice." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-kings-no-...

Opposition to ranked choice voting brings election deniers, Michigan county clerks into same sphere • Michigan Advance Politics can at times make for strange bedfellows, and the resistance to ranked choice voting taking root in Michigan is just the latest example, bringing so-called far-right election deniers and the…

“Michigan voters are smart enough to rank their preferences. What county clerks are calling ‘confusing’ is really just more democratic.” michiganadvance.com/2025/10/16/o...

Against The New Feudalism Of Algorithms And Oligarchs Americans are not peasants. We are citizens of a republic founded on the revolutionary proposition that ordinary people can govern themselves. This isn’t poetry or aspiration—it’s the foundational …

"When Peter Thiel writes that democracy and freedom are incompatible, he’s not making a philosophical observation. He’s stating a preference. When Elon Musk guts federal agencies while posting American flags, he’s not reforming government. He’s replacing citizenship with administration."

Michigan Furry Brings Honey Badger Energy — and Medicare for All — to His Fight for a Seat in the U.S. Congress Elyon Badger doesn't look anything like how one expects a candidate for office to look. Often clad in marijuana-themed attire or a honey badger fursuit,

Do honey badgers thrive in the Michigan weather? pridesource.com/article/elyo...

For my part I'm trying to encourage my organization to generate more meaningful and substantial artifacts either automatically from the work itself or in parallel as part of some more holistic documentation process. I do not want this kind of work to just be bolted on after the fact.

Well, ultimately my front-end dev and my UX teammates want to show off and/or discuss our work in the way they see other organizations do the same. Especially without having to navigate a full website experience.

Never Forgive Them In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting…

"Everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences" www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment Earlier today we wrote about Trump’s extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there’s an even mor…

"The pattern is clear: mainstream media has become so terrified of appearing biased that they’ve abandoned their basic responsibility to clearly communicate truth to the public." www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/t...

"Sad and Beautiful World" by @mavisstaples from the upcoming album 'Sad And Beautiful World', out on November 7, 2025 Pre-order, stream & download at… Mavis Staples - "Sad and Beautiful World"

Just going to stare into the middle distance. #music #savememavisstaples www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZG...

Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech” Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to int…

More cowards for the coward parade. "Apple justified this by treating federal immigration agents as a protected class equivalent to groups protected from discrimination based on 'religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin." www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/a...

DHS Sends A Journalist Back To His Home Country To Be Tortured Because ‘Live Streaming’ ICE Activities Is ‘Threatening’ America isn’t the land of the free. We abandoned that title when we returned Donald Trump to office — the same person who refused to engage in the peaceful transfer of power in 2020 and…

"The GOP’s extreme hypocrisy during both Trump administrations makes the usual hypocrisy expected of politicians look like a mostly-benign side effect of existing in a democratic republic." www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/d...

The White House Sent Its Compact to 9 Universities. Here’s What Their Administrators and Faculty Are Saying. Presidents have been guarded in their remarks on the Trump administration’s offer. But professors have expressed grave concerns.

Again, #DEI for me but not for thee. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

America Is Now The World’s Sundown Town This is who we are now. We are the country that makes people who aren’t white leave the country because they’re not white. And this is according to this administration’s own press…

"We are the country that makes people who aren’t white leave the country because they’re not white." www.techdirt.com/2025/10/09/a...