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How Elites Rebrand Power as Virtue - CounterPunch.org
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/how-elites-rebrand-power-as-virtue/
A well informed rant against rutger bregman and his school for moral ambition, a *powerwashing* school for the elite, for them to feel good, but not to solve the issues they cause irl.
Added 3 months ago
Pakkenmaker Bonne Reijn (34) maakt zich zorgen om de monocultuur van de binnenstad: ‘Jongeren kunnen zich niet verhouden tot Amsterdam’ | Het Parool
https://www.parool.nl/ps/pakkenmaker-bonne-reijn-34-maakt-zich-zorgen-om-de-monocultuur-van-de-binnenstad-jongeren-kunnen-zich-niet-verhouden-tot-amsterdam~bee2b5ef/
Geweldig verhaal over een geweldige kerel. Onder andere over dat zaken doen niet per se alleen maar over zoveel mogelijk geld verdienen gaat. Wat een fantastische kerel, wauw.
Added 5 months ago
The Hovercar Framework for Deliberate Product Design • Lea Verou
https://lea.verou.me/blog/2025/hovercar/
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 The examples are a bit outdated (a car and a cruise ship should not be the ultimate goal anymore), but this is something our students should probably learn.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?
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Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
Brilliant video showing the three shapes of stories.
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Designing for User Font-size and Zoom | OddBird
https://www.oddbird.net/2025/07/22/size-preferences/
The missing article on font size on websites, while also taking the user’s preference seriously.
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Software Development at 800 Words Per Minute | Dickson Tan's blog
https://neurrone.com/posts/software-development-at-800-wpm/
Very detailed explanation about how to develop software using a screenreader.
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The Mondrian introduction to functional optics
https://marcosh.github.io/post/2025/10/07/the-mondrian-introduction-to-functional-optics.html
An attempt to explain some programming paradigm visually.
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De klok tikt door, maar we hebben de tijd - NRC
https://archive.is/tYmpb
Mooi artikel over tijd, over The Clock, over de expo in Breda, over verschillende soorten tijd.
Added 4 months ago
PNG is back!
https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/
PNG got an update with HDR as the most important update (I guess)
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How Functional Programming Shaped (and Twisted) Frontend Development
https://alfy.blog/2025/10/04/how-functional-programming-shaped-modern-frontend.html
For students who think they need react. Maybe a bit complex.
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Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html
The other costs of LLMs. Or should we start calling them IPs? Internet Parasites?
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The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-force-feeding-of-ai-on-an-unwilling
Numbers about the idea that people do not want AI.
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Beware of the Google AI salesman and its cronies
https://housefresh.com/beware-of-the-google-ai-salesman/
Google AI feature in its search results is really bad.
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Toolspace
https://letterror.com/articles/toolspace.html
Very interesting article about the idea that designer should make *(hone)* their own tools. Some quotes:
> It is precisely the task of designers (graphic, industrial or whatever) to discover new possibilities.
> Limitations and demands imposed by a client are easier to accept than the arbitrary limitations of your digital tools.
> After all, programming graphic programs is much too important to leave to programmers.
> Explorers, and that is what they are, do not want to do the same thing twice.
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Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity - METR
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
Productivity did not go up
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Typecooker
https://letterror.com/articles/typecooker.html
Interesting way of teaching the complexity of typography. A similar approach could be used for other design topics as well.
Added 5 months ago
Hoe meer wapens Europa koopt, hoe onveiliger het wordt, stelt deze onderzoeker - De Correspondent
https://decorrespondent.nl/16200/hoe-meer-wapens-europa-koopt-hoe-onveiliger-het-wordt-stelt-deze-onderzoeker/4ea38a6d-8d80-030d-0142-70bcbc94e852
Pacifisme is de oplossing.
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The role of the University is to resist AI
https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html
Excellent lecture about resisting AI.
> I want to conclude by emphasising that the proposition that the role of the university is to resist AI is not simply a defence of pedagogy, but an affirmation of the social importance of imagination.
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James Bridle: ‘The Denial of Genocide Is on the March Everywhere’ - ArtReview
https://artreview.com/james-bridle-schelling-architecture-award-the-denial-of-genocide-is-on-the-march-everywhere/
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.
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GitHub - fullcalendar/temporal-polyfill: A lightweight polyfill for Temporal, successor to the JavaScript Date object
https://github.com/fullcalendar/temporal-polyfill
I want to start using the temporal API for my clocks.
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The Terror of Total Dasein | Hito Steyerl - DIS MagazineDIS Magazine
https://dismagazine.com/discussion/78352/the-terror-of-total-dasein-hito-steyerl/
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.
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Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist
https://gizmodo.com/wall-streets-ai-bubble-is-worse-than-the-1999-dot-com-bubble-warns-a-top-economist-2000630487
One of many people warning for a bubble
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Don't believe ChatGPT - we do NOT offer a "phone lookup" service
https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/dont-believe-chatgpt
One of the sad stories where a lying bot affects a product.
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