Bovendien is het moeilijk voor te stellen hoe radicale gelijkwaardigheid eruitziet, het is onbekend terrein. Ik weet ook niet hoe een wereld zonder uitbuiting eruit zou zien, maar de huidige wereldorde leidt tot oorlog en geweld, dus het is het onderzoeken waard.

The idea that product (design) teams need a vision to work towards. The examples are a bit outdated (a car and a cruise ship should not be the ultimate goal anymore), but this is something our students should probably learn. And something we, as a school, should do as well?

Prachtige visualisaties van vogels in amsterdam

I want to start using the temporal API for my clocks.

A good alternative to wetransfer

Very interesting article about the work that went into creating Words of Type.

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AI is an everything machine, which fits perfectly in a frictionless dystopia. A plea for more friction. I agree fully.

Very handy, and cleverly opinionated read-later tool.

Very detailed explanation about how to develop software using a screenreader.

Nice and thorough. Footnotes are style and should be used, whenever you think you should use them. Design them, and do so with attention.

Interesting “brutalist” typefaces

Brilliant, clever recursive animations

Turn a so called passport file into a png, as it should be.

Productivity did not go up

Sound effects of clocks, free to use

This is an incredible resource: many (really, many) words that letter-professionals use explained in quite a few languages. Wow!

Some interesting ideas here, most notably that you should decide what the discussion is about. At the moment, silicon valley decides and that’s bad.

The author writes about junktime, which I think is an even higher step from kairos -> chronos -> junktime. Who was it again who said that Kairos is village life, Chronos is city life, controlled by the clock, and then Junktime might be online life, controlled by ever presence.

Chatbots vond ik al treurig. Nu is daar ook bewijs voor.

A few extra arguments against LLMs. Mostly a personal answer/rant to an earlier article, and mostly pointing out flaws in the argumentation. For instance, that something was bad 6 months ago doesn't mean it’s good now. The same argument was used 6 months ago by the same people. Comparing people to large organisations when it comes to copyright Anonymous examples The fact that something gets attention doesn’t mean it’s as good as stated: see apps, crypto, etc. The fact that CEOs want us to use it, same thing, and even worse, because CEOs etc

Shocking article about the ‘hysterical obedience’ in Germany:

very common in Germany, that to be law-abiding means not merely to obey the laws but to act as though one were the legislator of the laws that one obeys.

Your brain is less active when you use tools instead of just your brains. Not very shocking. Rather obvious.

Erg goed verhaal over het weigeren van LLMs en het opzetten van een LLM-loze schrijversclub