Comment and Link Roundup: August 13, 2019

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

[cw: discourse, ableism, racism] The one about name pronunciation [four comments, three of which are new]

[cw: poverty] On Universal Basic Income [two comments]

Interesting Fact Meme [four comments]

[cw: amnesia] The one about 1984 and measurement systems

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) The intricacies of currency exchange. [two comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wingedcatgirl) Vibrant areas of social media, and making currently dormant areas more vibrant.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by paxamericana; in response to Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal) Subscription audits and self-awareness.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Cultural osmosis; finding new things to read.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Books we were not ready for, and possibly will never be ready for.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by staff) Automattic (the WordPress people) are taking Tumblr off of Oath's hands, which ties the fates of Tumblr and WordPress a little closer together than I'd like.

[cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) Having lots of freezer space is good.

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Links:

[Uncanny Magazine; Wayback] (by Sarah Pinsker, which is apparently *not* a pseudonymic conceit but the author's longstanding name; I only just realised this now) I'd been hearing praise for "that Hugo nominee where there's a murder at a convention of alternate-universe selves" and was a bit curious, but hadn't realised it was freely available. For those of you in the same boat, here it is. (I read it and enjoyed it.)

[TASTE; Wayback] (by Mari Uyehara) Different brands of kosher salt have significantly different densities: exercise caution when following recipes that don't specify which brand of kosher salt they were normed on. (I wonder what Windsor's density is: this article is aimed at Americans and doesn't say. *googles* Well, here's a chart from Windsor comparing the density of its kosher salt to that of table salt, from which the density relative to other kosher salts can presumably be deduced.)