Another journal

Been a bit since I did one of these! That’s mostly because I’ve been up on my browsing, good job me. And anyway, mostly these kinds of posts are good for me ensuring I keep my weekly blogging habit and I’ve been managing that okay. This week though, not so much, lol. Find all these link dumps on the tag “tab cleanout.”

The World of Playing Cards, a very cool and in-depth resource that “documents playing cards across cultures and centuries, from early handmade cards to industrial production, and from games of chance and skill to education, advertising, political satire, magic and fortune-telling.” I stumbled across it while looking up something about court cards and was delighted.

status: moved to REF: Assorted

The George Quaintance Blog, curated by Ken Furtado and John Waybright. I always love single-subject blogs, and I found this one while looking up more on Quaintence and the physique paintings he was known for after he was mentioned in a book I was reading. There’s a book as well, which I dropped in it’s own bookmark folder.

status: shared

Of Yuppies and Yippies and Hippies, over at the English Language & Usage stack exchange. Chase and I were trying to pin down in our memories what exactly a “yippie” was, and encountered this pretty in-depth history of the word and how it grew from hippies and morphed into yuppies. And also if it’s a portmanteau or not. Then, because it’s a stack exchange, there’s even more detail about related words.

In addition to the historical threads that ScotM identifies in his excellent answer, several other -pies formations that were current in the 1960s and 1970s may have contributed to the adoption of yuppies as shorthand for members of the sociological category “young urban professionals.” To wit: preppies, bippies, blippies, dippies, and trippies

status: moved to *absolutely random shit

Understanding AI: Facts, Myths & Protecting Your Work, over at TrueReft, stuck in an open tab so I could check some of the settings it mentions. It’s a nice little rundown of the basics, if you want some good bullet points for explaining why GenAI gives you the ick.

status: read and closed

“Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism — Yes, You! Yes, Now,” an imposed (ready-to-print) zine from It’s Going Down (who have a post with a lot of other new media projects covering current social movements and news here). These quotes from the intro sum it up:

We offer up this sampler of ideas, encouraging you to think and act for yourselves, with each other, as precisely the only winning strategy. If each idea here seems not enough on its own — well, it isn’t.

Here are twenty things you can do to counter fascism—yes, you! yes, now! Dream up and put into motion many, many more things too. This is only a beginning.

status: saved to my zine distribution folders

Okey dokey, that’s the lot, my tabs are tidied, and I’ve blogged for another week.