5 Platforms For Paying Indie Creators (And Getting Paid Yourself)
Are you an independent creator of some kind? Do you love independent creators of various stripes? Well here’s how we can fund the creators that make the internet our happy place.
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Four Totally Weirdo Apps That Are Useful and Fun
The world can only be described with that upside down smiley face emoji; here are some apps that make like the 20th century Dadaist movement had smartphones.
Art-ificial Intelligence: Amazing AI That Paints, Composes and Makes Movies
While we’ve known for years that AI likes a good cat video, the examples of AI entities showing us their artistic side have reached a critical mass.
5 Technologies I Wish I Had Known About Before I Started This Move
LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES.
Four Affordable Games with Weird, Escapist Worlds For Escaping To
These games were low or no-cost investments for me that have yielded hours of forgetting exactly how bad things are right now.
3 Apps to Help You Make the World Better
Three more apps made for the Resistance as we continue to rail against the corrupt white nationalist regime that has taken hold in the U.S.
Phishing’s No Phun; Here’s How To Resist The Bait
You may have heard about the big Google-Docs impersonating phishing scam this week, and there are a lot more out there. Here’s how to protect yourself.
8 More Women Gamers on YouTube and Twitch
Because you can never have a stable of too many awesome folks making video game videos without the heaping dose of toxic masculinity.
11 Women Gamers Who Let You Watch Along on YouTube and Twitch
You never have to watch a cis white dude play video games again.
TV On Your Tech: Every Which Way to Watch TV Without Cable, Compared
Between network shows, streaming-service originals, and your favorite sports, it’s tough to find a TV option that lets you watch everything you care about — especially if you don’t want to pay a huge cable bill or own a TV. Here are your options, broken down by cost, offerings and LGBT content!
Backup Your Queer Tech To The Cloud
You should backup your computer. Here are four cloud services that’ll help you do just that.
Republican-Led Congress Just Gave Away Your Data, Here’s What You Can Do
The short answer: VPNs won’t save us, but it’s better than nothing.
The Republican Push to Gut Internet Privacy Rules (and What You Can Do About It) Explained
Why Senate Joint Resolution 34 matters and what you can do about it.
Cee and Chloe Do Lesbians Who Tech (for the First Time in Four Years!)
In which Autostraddle tech duo Cee and Chloe revisit Lesbians Who Tech and have loads of thoughts about how it’s grown and where it might grow next.
Four Soothing Games for When You Need to Plug In and Chill Out
Games with pretty graphics and awesome sound design that go nicely with tea and relaxation.
Apps For How We’re Working in 2017, The Year of Limited Bandwidth
The name of the game is clean and distraction-free. Apps that are especially good for working in these distracting times.
Will Uber’s Very Public Sexual Harassment Debacle Actually Change Things For Women in Tech?
Are we finally moving past the storytelling phase and into doing real things to combat sexism in the technology industry, or is this Uber fiasco more of the same?
5 Options for Banking Institutions (With Apps!) That Aren’t Funding DAPL
It can be tough to find a bank that’s not funding the Dakota Access Pipeline and that also still has the technology infrastructure you need. Here are a few places to start!
How To Use The Internet To Contact Your Representatives (Even When the Phone Lines Are Jammed)
Not all of us have 12 hours to redial and redial and redial every single phone number for every single district office for every single one of our representatives, so here’s some advice that might help you get your message through to your representatives.
Handväska! For When You Just Need To Hit Some Virtual Nazis With a Purse
And all the profits from this game are going to CUNY-CLEAR right now, too.