Tag: Society
For those complaining about the high costs in restaurants and coffee bars
picture from Caffenation blog There is a lot of complaining about high prices for food and driinks outdoor. But at the same time we see business struggling to survive or being forced to stop. Recently owners of restaurants and coffee bars have been opening up about their costs. In this article in The Guardian you...
Retired
Made a little Linkedin post to share my retirement. A lot of very warm comments followed. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7472654929187241986
Avondvierdaagse
Fun to see The Guardian write about this Dutch tradition
Q & A with American Association for Nude Recreation Candidate for President Linda Weber
On May 16 Clothes Free Life hosted an AMA with Linda Weber current president and candidate for re-election of the American Association for Nude Recreation on our Fluxer community. The small group of participants engaged with Weber for over an hour but there was no transcript. With a few days of voting left we asked...
The Claude Code Leak
What the accidental Claude Code source code leak tells us about the real value of code, product market fit, and why integration is what actually makes software great.
AI isn’t people
"Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people. The motivated muddling of categories so prevalent in writing and thinking about AI, beginning with the very name 'artificial intelligence', is intentional and serves the narrative that this software can and will...
The Claude Code Moment
The sudden adoption of Claude Code by non-technical people represents an important moment in time — and one that will have a lasting impact on the way we work.
Waarom We Politiek Niet Alleen Aan Politici Kunnen Overlaten
Het wantrouwen in de politiek neemt toe, terwijl politiek een onderwerp blijft waarover veel mensen niet willen praten. Toen ik Waarom We Politiek Niet Alleen Aan Politici Kunnen Overlaten bij de boekenwinkel heb gezien, dacht ik: "oh, dat klinkt interessant".
When we get komooted
"Digital enclosure is the continuation of the physical enclosure of land. This sophisticated form of digital extraction is so common that it’s almost unremarkable. But there’s a wrenching contradiction here between Komoot’s stated mission of 'enabling access' to public land while privatizing and exclusively profiting from those very movements. They take our most meaningful encounters...
Hypernormalization
Welcome to the Vibellion
It’s wild to type this out as both a record and a commentary at the same time. I am recording for posterity a chaotic situation that is in rapid flux. There’s a lot of background information that needs to be known and understood as this post exists in the middle of “something.” How will this post stand the test of time, especially online time as digital records disappear? If you read this in the present or the future, and have no idea what I am going on about, I apologize. I hope all the related records stand the test of time.
The Society and the Objects
Presently, the people love the objects. Sometimes, more than they love the people. Is this good? Or not?