That fancy game of cult or culture…
10 of the best quotes from Rutger Bregman’s Moral Ambition.
- In some circles, you’d think the highest good is not to have any impact at all. A good life is then primarily defined by what you don’t do. Don’t fly. Don’t eat meat. Don’t have kids…the aim is to have the smallest footprint possible, with your little vegetable garden and your tiny house. Best-case scenario? Your impact on the planet is so negligible, you could just as well not have existed. Don’t get me wrong – it’s a fine idea to align even your smallest deeds with your biggest values. But surely a good life consists of more than what you don’t do? One would hope that on your deathbed, you can chalk up your life’s work to more than simply all the harm you didn’t cause?
Relevant: The School for Moral Ambition.
But then again: Rutger Bregman's Latest Book, Moral Ambition, Is a Confusing Sequel to Humankind.
Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era.
The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, the people building web alternatives are also entering their Post-Naive Era. Here are the names to know.
The death rays that guard life.
We disinfect water before we drink it. Why don’t we disinfect the air before we breathe it?
HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The <output> Tag.
Make your dynamic content accessible by default with the HTML tag that time forgot.
“Christmas Lights Diarrhea” 😅
“I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong.”
Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting.
Mädchen halt auch so ein überflüssiges Wort.
Am Samstag gehen die Mädchen in den Wald und jagen Sachen in die Luft.
You mean like Google Wave? 🤪
Automerge is a library of data structures for building collaborative applications.
You can have a copy of the application state locally on several devices which may belong to the same user, or to different users. Each user can independently update the application state on their local device, even while offline, and save the state to local disk. This is similar to Git, which allows you to edit files and commit changes offline.
I hope they are right.
Open source has clearly won. Yes, there are plenty of closed source products and businesses. But the shared infrastructure – the commons – runs on open source.
On my way back from Lago di Gardia (pix are coming – or it didn’t happen) I made a stop at the Museion in Bolzano and saw the exhibition “Nicola L – I am the last woman object” – which I could have seen already in Vienna a few months ago🤦
Nicola L’s work is exciting, sometimes dark, sometimes funny, some did not age very well (“same skin for everyone” if the skin is kind of white is bombing intersectionality-wise IMO), and some is outright naïvely romanticizing personalities (like Ulrike Meinhof or Jeanne d’Arc).
And while I found the Museion quite fascinating the last time (probably due to the exhibition theme), today I got pretty claustrophobic in the lonely staircase down to the basement. Not sure this modern architecture is suitable for every topic or artist’s work 😱