an appendix to pearlofcivilization.net
No Longer Vaporware: The Internet of Things Is Finally Talking | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
“So Sande bought a new gizmo called the WeMo Switch, which connects to the Internet so you can turn on an outlet remotely. It’s also programmable. Using the free web service If This Then That, Sande created a script that monitors information from Yahoo Weather. If the temperature in his neighborhood hits 85 degrees, the fan turns itself on and cools the house.”
The Role of Indigenous Men in Ending Violence Against Women – ICTMN.com
Kind of an amazing framing of colonial violence as inevitable: “But one statistic that struck me was a study that concluded that 80 per cent of violence against Indigenous women and girls is perpetrated by non-Indigenous people and 20 per cent by Indigenous. And it occurred to me that, while there is not much we can do directly about the 80 per cent, the 20 per cent by Indigenous men is preventable.”