Proper post tomorrow. Two days without my CPAP machine means I’m so sleep-deprived I’m barely alive…

Mark Evanier on not drinking and feminist aspie on not liking the heat. As a teetotal aspie who hates the heat, both of these ring true to me, and in both cases what I find irritating is people assuming their experience is universal and that “everyone likes a drink/loves this weather”, and dismissing any statements to the contrary.

Peter Watts on surveillance, again.

Academic and media “feminists” need to deal with the transphobia in their ranks.

Charles Stross on Perl in 2034

And Alex Wilcock looks at the Orange Book ten years on, or at least at the myth of the book