As part of the Techfestival last week, the Copenhagen 150, which this time included me, came together to write a pledge for individual technologists and makers to commit their professional lives to. A bit like a Hippocratic oath, but for creators of all tech. Following up on the Copenhagen Letter, w…
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The drive to urbanization is an imperative of capitalism, this drive results in ‘a freezing of life’— a static world devoid of spontaneity, the result of land development and bureaucratic zoning laws optimized for rent seeking and increased land valuations, devoid of nature and where its residents have no ability to change their surroundings to suit their daily ways of living
AI can now easily (8 seconds) change the identity of someone in a film or video. Multiple services can now scan a few hours of someone’s voice and then fake any sentence in that person’…
I have a Google Alert set up for my name, to find new mentions of it online. Today I received a mail that my name came up in an article in the South China Morning Post (SCMP), as part of a photo credit. This made me curious.
An article on the amount of time elderly US citizens spend behind their com…
It’s been a while since I posted any shell tricks, so I’m just dumping a few random but useful aliases out here…
Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)I’m back in the habit of reading my feed subscriptions at the beginning of every day. I love blogs: posts are typically more longform and thoughtful, and less led by trending topics on social media sites. It’s usually “here’s what I’ve been thinking about lately,” which is lovely. As Kev…
On death and Stoicism.
Aaron Parecki has been playing around with sensors in his home. He lists the three principles he applies to how his home automation is set up: Manual override: Everything automated has to still have the ability to be controlled manually Keep it at home: No “cloud” services unless absolutely nece…
Tantek Çelik (tantek.com)While not a post directly about IndieWeb Summit 2019, this post provides a bit of background and is certainly related, so I’m including it in my series of posts about the Summit. Previous post in this series: Reflecting On IndieWeb Summit: A Start
At the beginning of IndieWeb Summit 2019, I gave a…
Last summer, we published a comprehensive look at the ways that Facebook could and should open up its data so that users could control their experience on the service, and to make it easier for competing services to thrive.In the time since, Facebook has continued to be rocked by scandals: privacy…
Source: womenlovetech.com Meet Amie. Amie doesn’t like being told she can’t do things, like taking the RFID chip out of her Tesla key card and implanting it into her arm. So she melted …
Homebrew Website Club in Goa
After more than a year of trying to be part of the IndieWeb and working on my website alone, I thought I should try to start a Homebrew Website Club in Goa.
Dit is tof. Het indieweb verspreidt zich over alle continenten, één Homebrew Website Club per keer. Zoals in Goa, India.
From the Flow State newsletter — “every weekday, we send out two hours of music that’s perfect for working” — comes a
fluffy (beesbuzz.biz)First day of #IndieWeb Summit, scattered notes that I take as they come. Hopefully I don’t end up misrepresenting things too badly.
Frank Meeuwsen pointed me to this article by David Yates, which contains explanations of IndieWeb components and their purposes, for less tech-oriented people. It concludes that, yes IndieWeb has a wide range of cool features, that let you use the Web itself as social medium, but that implementing t…
Saul Bass is one of the most celebrated designers of movie posters and title sequences in the short history of cinema. He create
Visual engineer Steve Giralt constructs bespoke robotic cameras to capture unusual scenes for TV commercials, many of which featur
Last week I joined over 400 web nerds at CSS Day 2019, which took place once again in the lovely Compagnietheater in Amsterdam. These are some of the things I learned.
Left to right badge that says hidde de vries man that makes smoothies surrounded by smoothies three speakers in front of their respe…
Here’s the list of blogs I read.
You can see that list just by clicking on that link, and it will look something like this in your browser:
Detail from my blogroll OPML, with an XSLT transform applied.
But you can also save that file, and load it into your RSS reader of choice, to import my list o…
Veel bloggers vragen onbewust om goedkeuring. Twitteraars ook. Facebookers ook. Je hebt een theorietje, maakt er een blogje van en krijgt een paar reacties. “Zie je wel, ook anderen denken er zo over.” Of je bent het ergens niet mee eens en jouw reaguurders bevestigen dat.
Men telt het aantal li…
