"Patriarchy prefers instead that you perform a self-reckoning, one in which you learn to turn anger not outwards where it belongs and can target injustice, but inwards. The result is that instead of using anger to destroy patriarchy and its injustices, anger will instead destroy you, with sadness and shame, self-hatred and trauma. Do not let sadness become your currency."
https://feministgiant.substack.com/p/letter-dear-8th-grader

Plenty of people want to break into a new field such as software testing. One option -- earn money while you learn! -- may be crowdtesting.
https://www.functionize.com/blog/the-pros-and-cons-of-software-crowdtesting/

Native Land is an online map that wipes away borders imposed by colonial powers to reveal a complex, colorful overlap of Indigenous territories, languages and treaties. https://native-land.ca

Photography was still relatively young in the 1860s. But even then, as today, it revealed the ugly truths about America’s inequality and the power to inspire change. #BlackLivesMatter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsyauyctwHo&feature=emb_logo

"You can help NASA's newest planet-hunting mission do its otherworldly work. The space agency just launched a citizen-science project called Planet Patrol." https://www.space.com/planet-patrol-nasa-tess-exoplanet-volunteers

"We get excited when things get shaken up, for the big and powerful to get taken down a peg. There is a joy in seeing 'the system' shaken up, old hierarchies up-ended, Goliaths falling to Davids." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/24/disruption-big-tech-buzzword-silicon-valley-power

The Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge aims “to find out which of the ten-year-old techniques for writing and publishing code are good enough to make it work a decade later.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02462-7

Invite an elephant to your next video chat. “The Elephant in the Zoom” will raise money for the animals’ care in Thailand to help make up for a lack of tourism revenue. https://www.chiangraitimes.com/thailand-national-news/northen-thailand/organizers-offer-zoom-video-conferences-with-elephants-in-northern-thailand/

"Why do places offer this kind of economic incentive? And is it really worth it?" https://www.insidehook.com/article/travel/wanted-american-expats-live-tropical-island

In ancient Rome, slaves were trained to memorize the names of voters who might be persuaded to vote for their master, so that he could find and greet them personally. These days, the strategy behind personal targeting comes from computer models that can slice the electorate into highly specific groups. Messaging is honed using extensive A/B testing.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/28/1008994/the-technology-that-powers-political-campaigns-in-2020-explained/

Drone Awards 2020: the world seen from above https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/sep/28/drone-awards-2020-the-world-seen-from-above

A lonely otter found love on a dating site. It was built specially for him by a seal sanctuary in England. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/04/us/lonely-otter-finds-love-trnd/index.html

The rise, fall, and resurrection of the humble leech. https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/medicinal-leeches-and-where-to-find-them

Hand-Colored Maps of Wealth & Poverty in Victorian London: Explore a New Interactive Edition of Charles Booth’s Historic Work of Social Cartography (1889) http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/hand-colored-maps-of-wealth-poverty-in-victorian-london.html

Lest you find yourself watching Parts Unknown again, YouTube has a treasure trove of weird, wild, and genuinely uplifting travel channels. https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/best-youtube-travel-shows-channels

Testing can be as critical, if not more so, than plopping language support into the code. Look out for these five gotchas when testing software internationalization. #i18n https://www.functionize.com/blog/learning-to-love-i18n/

For three decades, the Ig Nobel Awards have celebrated the lighter side of science by highlighting research achievements that “first make people laugh then make them think.” And there’s no shortage of amusing projects amid the 2020 crop. https://newatlas.com/science/2020-ig-nobel-awards-science/

"This edition: Pop-Tarts S’mores, which are made from 22 separate ingredients, some of which have ingredients lists of their own, that we’ve broken down in the exact order they appear online."" https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/whats-in-this-pop-tarts

No daguerreotypist had ever attempted anything like this before. Daguerreotopy, which was the earliest form of photography, had only been invented 14 years earlier in 1839. It was a cumbersome process involving polished, silver-coated copper plates and lots of gear and chemicals, and it was prone to failure.
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/10/earliest-photos-of-native-americans/