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⇨ Did you arrive here from the zine? Here's a list of all the links! ⇩

Resources used

Pablomustafa, A trip through the early internet. Buzzfeed
Philippjahner, Windows 95 nostalgia. Buzzfeed
Windows 98 SE. Tumblr
Pixil Art
Apple 2 fonts. Kreative Korp
Internet! Imgur
Web Design Museum
Make WordArt
A.N. Luca’s 88x31 button collection. Neocities
Paolo Pedercini, Making games in a fucked up world. Games for Change, 2014

Further study

BOOKS

Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire
Trauma Stewardship, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During the Crisis, Dean Spade
Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown
Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication, Meenadchi

ARTICLES

White Supremacy Culture
Defund Big Tech, Refund Community
Vivianne Castillo's resignation letter
"Your DNA is our History" Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of Whiteness as Property
Surviving IDEO
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation
The Diversity and Inclusion Industry Has Lost Its Way
These Machines Won't Kill Fascism: Toward a Militant Progressive Vision for Tech
Alex Snowden, Marxism in 800 words
Design justice in professionalized workplaces
is there a cure for existential loneliness? making friends and meaning in the burnout society
The Corporate Playbooks Used to Combat Organizational Trauma (And Why They're Not Enough)
From Belonging to Burnout

WEBSITES

Logic School public folder
Modernity + Coloniality Summer Seminar
Tech Won't Save Us (podcast)
Tech Workers Coalition
Project Include
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Tech Inquiry and Who Profits?
Data Detox Kit
Exit to Community
Consentful Tech
Defund Surveillance
Social Change Ecosystem

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