The year resets, and it has me thinking about resets of my own. This week I am thinking about blogs as shut down routines. How can I return to my blog each and every day and contribute to it, as I wind down for my days and collect my thoughts. A blog can be many […]

For as long as I can remember, my country has been at war. We have never called it war, of course. That would be obscene. Counter-terrorism, perhaps. International law enforcement is a new one. They have been wars though. And the effects have been as dramatic as any other war that has come before it. […]

But perhaps the death of search is good for the future of the web. Perhaps websites can be free of dumb rankings and junky ads that are designed to make fractions of a penny at a time. Perhaps the web needs to be released from the burden of this business model. So Many Websites, by […]

Links The Resonant Computing Manifesto We call this quality resonance. It’s the experience of encountering something that speaks to our deeper values. It’s a spark of recognition, a sense that we’re being invited to lean in, to participate. This is a really impressive, and concise manifesto. Can sometimes feel like a faraway pipe dream, but […]

Some really impressive names put this together and it speaks, I think, to a movement that has always been there under the surface. We call this quality resonance. It’s the experience of encountering something that speaks to our deeper values. It’s a spark of recognition, a sense that we’re being invited to lean in, to […]

Dir. Jesse Eisenberg Sometime in the first act of the film, the film tells you exactly what it is. Benji (Kieran Culkin) jumps up amongst a monument in Warsaw during the first stop on the Holocaust tour he is on with his much more stable, yet neurotic cousin David (Jesse Eisenberg). He stands right next […]

Paul Ford on why blogging is the canary in the coal mine for when a technology becomes boring and normal. People sometimes talk about the golden age of blogging but less about why people blogged: No one had money, and nothing is cheaper than putting words online. When the money flies to money heaven, and […]

They want us to feel like we can’t speak our minds. But this is America, and there are still people who are willing to.

Ben Werdmuller with another truly great take. Why the open social web matters now, which was a keynote he gave at this year’s Fediforum. Werdmuller traces something that I think is often overlooked, the actual utility of a decentralized social web. Tangible outputs which he breaks into two different categories, social media (for broadcasting signals […]

Where it is most charming is in moments of spark that exist between leads Goldstein and Poots. They are able to navigate us through the complexity of love as it moves through cycles and phases and in and out of focus. And that is an interesting story and one that the film invites us to […]

There is such value in the information that’s been uploaded and disseminated through the web. And when we try to flatten and summarize it, we lock that information up instead of letting it remain free.

I watched Josh Johnson’s special about removing Jimmy Kimmel’s show, and a host of other things. In his usual way, Johnson sort of pokes at the issue from the side, first talking about what it feels to like to be caught off guard and to be scared, before coming to a fundamental question of human […]

In Five Came Back, Mark Harris tells the story of five legendary film directors who came together to make war propaganda on behalf of the American government as the US entered World War II. The stories in there are filled with happenstance and circumstance, egos and convictions, and the real and true terror of war. […]

via Ethan Marcotte There’s a lot packed into Ethan’s post, as there often is. As somebody who runs an engineering team, though, it was his thoughts on AI mandates that really stood out. I’ve heard repeatedly about a kind of stifling social pressure: an implicit, unstated expectation that “AI” has to be seen as good […]

There’s this belief that you can trade ideology for votes without sacrificing integrity. It’s not true.

A theme that, at least for me, became a kind of guide to theme development. I’m glad it existed, and to all the people that made it possible.

via Mandy Brown Mandy Brown brings her thoughtful analysis to the work of philosopher André Gorz, who wrote frequently in the post-World War II world about his self-described leftist approaches to politics, and in this case, to work. Brown contextualizes that in the modern day. But what Gorz is calling out here is that isn’t […]