Wednesday's two (wildly different) things
Item 1. Spring cleaning?
- Surveillance self-defense: Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications (Electronic Frontier Foundation, which also offers guides for academic researchers, activists/protesters, and many others)
- How to switch your tech habits to escape the techno-feudalist takedown (This is Precious)
- The Opt-Out Project's Cyber Cleanse: Take Back Your Digital Footprint
Item 2. A book to know
Priya Vulchi's new book Good Friends just came out, and earlier this week I got to hear Vulchi in conversation with her former professor, Dr. Ruha Benjamin, at my local library. There was a warm honey-gold feeling in the room as old friends from their department hugged hello; as the audience learned about core friends who accompanied, loved, and pushed some of our most lauded writers and civil rights icons; and as we thought about friends with whom we are most courageous.
You kind of had to be there. But you didn't! You can buy the book or...
Build buzz ➡️ Ask your library to order it. (I've mentioned before that most libraries have a "request a title" option on their websites, and real librarians say it matters!)
Listen / watch ➡️ Here's a podcast interview with the author (The Interlocutor), and the audiobook is available on Libby, Libro.fm, etc.
