The Recompiler (2024)

23/01/2021

Hello Recompilers, It's been a good week, which is a strange sentence to write. So far, no civil war. Trump is no longer in office. Without a doubt, Biden will commit war crimes and further the tendrils of American empire the same as every president, but Trump is out of office. The fight continues. For updates about the Portland protests, …...

http://recompilermag.com/2021/01/22/newsletter-180-bail-is-bad-technology/

Hello Recompilers, It’s been a good week, which is a strange sentence to write. So far, no civil war. Trump is no longer in office. Without a doubt, Biden will commit war crimes and further t…

09/01/2021

Hello Recompilers, For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what's going on there. Reading: It's hard writing a weekly newsletter when nothing of note happens. Like this week. I mean, sure, an angry pro-autocratic mob stormed the Capitol building after pushing past a lackluster and inconsistent police presence. Yeah, they had zip ties with them....

http://recompilermag.com/2021/01/08/newsletter-178-what-a-boring-week-with-no-news/

Hello Recompilers, For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what’s going on there. Reading: It’s hard writing a weekly newsletter when nothing o…

02/01/2021

Hello Recompilers, For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what's going on there. Reading: Tabletop roleplaying over Zoom has been a pretty major part of how I'm keeping myself together. So it's heartening to hear that Wizards of the Coast is working pretty actively to address some of the major racial issues in Dungeons & Dragons…...

http://recompilermag.com/2021/01/01/newsletter-177-facial-recognition-against-police/

Hello Recompilers, For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what’s going on there. Reading: Tabletop roleplaying over Zoom has been a pretty major par…

28/12/2020

Hello Recompilers, For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what's going on there. Reading: Two of the most anxiety-inducing components of modern life--the pandemic and algorithms with real-world consequences--interacted this week, when Standford Medical Center used software to determine whom among their staff to prioritize for Covid vaccination. The AI prioritized age over exposure risk and remote workers found themselves at the front of the line while frontline workers were not....

http://recompilermag.com/2020/12/27/newsletter-176-the-great-vaccine-algorithm-debacle/

Hello Recompilers, For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what’s going on there. Reading: Two of the most anxiety-inducing components of modern life…

19/12/2020

Hello Recompilers, For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what's going on there. Reading: For those of us who've been isolated or are especially vulnerable, vaccines are on our minds. How will the infrastructure be created to vaccinate millions of people? How do we convince people it's safe--or at least safer than Covid? In one of the best science explainers around, …...

http://recompilermag.com/2020/12/18/newsletter-175-keeping-vaccines-cold/

Hello Recompilers, For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what’s going on there. Reading: For those of us who’ve been isolated or are especial…

12/12/2020

Hello Recompilers, Things are heating up again in Portland. For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what's going on there. Reading: This week we learned more about Google's firing of Timnit Gebru, the ethicist, and what it means for the argument that "a seat at the table" is enough. This week, three different podcaster unions performed a work stoppage at Spotify…...

http://recompilermag.com/2020/12/11/newsletter-174-more-sketchiness-from-tech-companies/

Hello Recompilers, Things are heating up again in Portland. For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what’s going on there. Reading: This week we lear…

04/12/2020

Hello Recompilers, For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what's going on there. Reading: We're facing a grim winter. I know it hasn't even left our minds, but it's worth remembering that we're at more than 200,000 new cases of Covid per day in the US. Please keep that in mind as we get deeper into the holiday season....

http://recompilermag.com/2020/12/04/newsletter-173-a-grim-winter-of-unrest/

Hello Recompilers, For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what’s going on there. Reading: We’re facing a grim winter. I know it hasn’t e…

28/11/2020

Hello Recompilers, For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what's going on there. Reading: Amazon has been hiring Pinkertons (a private security company known for the violent suppression of unions in the 19th century) to spy on labor rights groups, which, while evil as hell, shouldn't be too surprising. They're spying on environmentalists too, though....

http://recompilermag.com/2020/11/27/newsletter-172-of-course-amazon-wound-up-with-pinkertons/

Hello Recompilers, For updates about the Portland protests, Audrey is still maintaining a blog about what’s going on there. Reading: Amazon has been hiring Pinkertons (a private security comp…

21/11/2020

Hello Recompilers, The weather's turning colder, at least here in the South where I'm typing this, and it's strange how "there might be a coup in the country with the most powerful military force on the planet" takes a back seat in some of our minds while "there's a pandemic raging at what is already one of the more lonely times of the year, in which human connection is vital" comes to foreground....

http://recompilermag.com/2020/11/20/newsletter-171-warehouse-workers-lead-the-way/

Hello Recompilers, The weather’s turning colder, at least here in the South where I’m typing this, and it’s strange how “there might be a coup in the country with the most p…

14/11/2020

Hello Recompilers, Sorry we missed you last week! If you're in the US, I'm sure you, along with us, were caught up waiting, wondering, what was going to happen with the election. Fortunately, all our troubles are magically fixed, now that Biden won, Trump is conceding, and Biden is a suitably progressive candidate to start solving all our problems! Oh wait, only the first one of those things is true....

http://recompilermag.com/2020/11/13/newsletter-170-on-the-horizon/

Hello Recompilers, Sorry we missed you last week! If you’re in the US, I’m sure you, along with us, were caught up waiting, wondering, what was going to happen with the election. Fortun…

31/10/2020

Hello Recompilers, Some of the editors of Recompiler (not me, I'm just a newsletter-writer) have started a blog to track the Portland protests and it's one of the best resources I've seen to keep up with what's going on, with timelines of each night and a roundup of news. Reading: I love to tell myself that in a week, this will all be over and we'll have election results. [ 329 more words ]

http://recompilermag.com/2020/10/30/newsletter-169-ham-radio-for-the-revolution/