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
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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…
jakedahn (jakedahn.com)Back to Blogging
Hi Friends!
I spent my last few evenings learning about http://indieweb.org, https://micro.blog/, and trying to revive my personal blog. Things are still a little rough around the edges, so bear with me as I slowly customize the theme, and make things nicer.
I’ll write some though…
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 …
mdp, tpp, and sent may not win you any design awards, but they’ll give you basic slides that you can run from a terminal.
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.
(written by hand on July 16th, in the French country side, typed out and edited on the laptop after returning home)
Some notes on my experience with mobile blogging in the past few weeks that we spent in France. Normally I don’t post at all during our holidays. However it usually is a time I write…
CVT Soft Serve just shared their ‘influencer’ policy: Asking for free ice cream in exchange for a mention means paying double
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.
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It’s that time of year again! No, not awards season…Bridgy stats time!
Looking at the graphs, the elephant in the room is clearly the Facebook shutdown. It was Bridgy’s second largest silo, numbering 1477 users when we wer…
I am at an airport, and I just saw a booth where I could access the web for free if I had the right card, or for a certain amount of euros per time unit. I saw the Microsoft Internet Explorer logo. All the computers where available, except for one. I assumed the girl that was using it worked there. …
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
