Is the story of your relationship true?
[We can still over weigh past hurt in our relationships even after repair.]
[At any given moment, relationships contain eight combined narratives, from
- you: about yourself, your partner, and the relationship
- your partner: about themselves, you, and the relationship
- the relationship itself: about you, and your partner]
Vandana Shiva | On Cultivating Fearlessness
[Just as yield doesn't measure agricultural productivity, mechanistic thinking is a poor fit for the living world.]
[When you try to make things better, what seems a small contribution can have multiple ramifications because our world is interconnected. Being overwhelmed by your actions seeming insignifican is a result of conditioning from mechanical thinking that reduces us to isolated entities. We don't carry the world on are backs, we are just one of a trillion species that each creating microscopic impacts.]
[Mechanical thinking conditions us into believing that things are separated so that it can sell us natural things as products we can buy repeatedly forever.]
[We're trained to consume, and consider living without unsustainable products to be a "sacrifice". But if living within natural restaint can be a source of satisfacion and peace, and freedom from the insatiable desire for more, it's really consumption that requires us to "sacrifice".]
[I asked strangers in Egypt who they would apologize to if they could.]
Beyond Horseless Carriages: Building Communities for the Decentralized Era
[Fediverse: communities of 50–100 people, "a slightly bigger group chat". Bluesky: planet-scale network. What could go in between? Blacksky is 'Reddit-sized' or like a large forum at around 100–200k people.]
[Moderation can also be a form of "community care" that people actually enjoy and appreciate, rather than just a task to be done.]
[Contradictory when almost nobody in the community does moderation or understands the primitives, yet most seem to think it's decentralized. If the main provider goes away tomorrow, will you know how to keep the infrastructure running?]
[People are busy and have kids: they don't need to know what a PDS is.]
[Build what helps people find joy and feel good about themselves.You can't scare them into using decentralized tech "for their own good".]
UI/UX Benefits and Trade-Offs of Local-First Apps
[Beware generic solutions: they don't know your needs.]
[Instead of directing users to "please resolve this conflict", the UI could say "Bob made a different suggestion"]
15 years of Local First: a best-of report from the field
[When humanity's achievements are tabulated a hundred years from now, the Ebola vaccine will be listed, and I'm proud that our work with CouchDB and offline-first software helped make it happen.]
[Documentation is a 10x multiplier for your development speed.]
clown core: Diarrhea Inferno Welfare Burrito
gradual voice-leading and suspensions with fast-paced drumming
wild creepy sensory overload
How Indian students end up exploited in Germany
[Indian students come to Germany sold on a vision of prosperity by expensive private university marketing, then find themselves unable to leave and forced into delivery work.]
[Delivery companies like Uber Eats and Wolt rely on 3rd party agencies to recruit and hire drivers as 4th party contractors. These agencies interact anonymously through WhatsApp numbers, make arrangements to pay in cash at sketchy locations (often less than anticipates), and regularly declare bankruptcy before starting the scheme again avoid paying taxes and social security.]
Löwenzahn: Peter hat viel Zeit
a million ways to tell time without batteries, plus a battery from fruit
The entire global monetary system explained in under 15 minutes
[The monarch gives them tokens in exchange for labour, then demands it back in the form of taxes.]
Evan You – From Art School Kid to Open Source Legend
[In the same way that "how do you monetize a startup?" is too open-ended, it's necessary to be specific and creative in how you fit an open-source "product" to potential "markets". Monetization capacity of an open-source project depends on how it's applied: frameworks have larger scope and reach many developers whereas an esoteric build tool may have a smaller audience.]
Who profits from a world without cash?
[Transitioning to a cashless society implies moving away from state-issued money towards 'tokens' issued by private corporations. We currently trust their casino chips because they can be redeemed for fiat currency, but without cash this is no longer possible.]
Puppy Wisdom, if we can hear it.
[When a baby dog bites, it can be painful but also totally normal. Why can knowing this give me so much patience towards an animal, yet I take it so personally when my partner does something which hurts? Getting hurt and processing it together can also be a normal part of relationships, and you can't have one without the other.]
Let's talk about a Christmas Carol and its lessons....
[The systems and experiences that shape people can explain them without excusing them.]
If you refuse to examine how you became who you are, you'll mistake your coping mechanisms for virtues.
How to free your mind from BIG TECH propaganda
[Techno-optimists promote the idea of progress as a high score that constantly accumulates (often conveniently through their platforms); this masks the way new technologies commodify and become baseline needs, their absence leaving us not simply with 'less', but an incapacity to function in society that expects it everywhere.]
[Just as you find your footing, they start to change. I swear she grows with each blink.]
What does it mean to be seen, all the time, by everyone?
[We are not individuals or ever alone: just the current contact point into a community.]
[Act in ways that would fill the healthiest people you know with pride.]
Joshua Maponga: How to Decolonize Africa’s Systems
[Before school, identify problems in your community. Study them in school and find solutions. Develop a proposal and business plan. After graduating, return to your community and solve those problems.]
[We plant coffee, which we can't eat, then export it to earn money that we can use to buy food, rather than simply planting food we can eat.]
[Our language contains the relationship between natural entities and their functions (for example mususu helps the susu); using European names distances us from our intuitive understanding of what's around us.]
[Our government invests in students only to have them leave to colonial economies to enrich their systems.]
Why Nobody Can Afford Canada Anymore
[Canada wasn't hit as hard during the 2008 financial crisis but printed money and lowered interest rates anyway. This funneled too much investment into real estate and enabled housing prices to continue inflating for another decade or two.]
