Etcetera #1: Birdwatch, crosswords, counterculture

Like every effort at adding moderation tools to an already mature social network, Twitter’s Birdwatch will fail. Like everything else, it comes down to cold hard cash.

Despite decades worth of missteps and competition from a growing indie scene, the Times puzzle is slow to change.

An interesting look at how The Guardian has deployed a regex-based style guide checker into its CMS.

Stuttering doesn’t just belong to the person who stutters — it’s something we share.

In an equal world, everyone would be able to do just this. However, that is not the reality of our current times. There are two major hurdles that stand in the way of everyone “cooking what they like”: equity of access & proper representation.

To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.

What is genius, who is one, and how is genius viewed in non-Western cultures?

A history of the alphabet and the rise of alphabetical order. (Podcast interview, segment starts at 08'15’‘.)