Tag: culture

13 posts

The Ethics of Not Being Offended

Discomfort isn't harm. Treating it as harm burns the finite moral attention we need for the suffering that actually exists.

The Kids Aren’t Into Retro Tech Because of Surveillance Capitalism

Teenagers buying CDs aren't making a political statement. They just like CDs.

How Powerful Narratives Shape Our Reality Using Polarizing Triggers. Should You Fight Back?

Content was once king. Now distribution and audience rule. People with the biggest audience are now incentivized to distribute their narrative to anyone willing to buy it.

We Crave Open Culture

Essay about the importance of free participation in culture.

Jan 26, 2026

Aftermath

Video games, the internet and what comes after

Dec 21, 2025

The Flytrap

Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm

Dec 21, 2025

Selling Out vs. Just Selling: The Weirdness of "Content" Monetization

What it means that we stopped caring so much about what we create and started caring only about whether we can sell it.

Fediverse Report #103

Fediverse Report #103

This week I'm zooming in on the culture of the fediverse, prompted by the Superbowl halftime show. IFTAS announces they'll run out of funding soon, indicating the challenges with funding Trust & Safety in the network.


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Feb 11, 2025

Arbitrary Calendar Marker Commentary

Another year of Tedium is behind us, and gotta say—it’s looking like another thousand years of it. Here’s the tedium you should expect in 2022.

Thanks, Craig

Hitting its 25th anniversary this month, Craigslist remains a reminder that a more democratic version of the internet can still thrive.

How I Created an Assessment to Evaluate Potential New Hires

Earlier this year I was tasked with developing a method of evaluating developer skill for potential new hires.


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Nov 9, 2018

What Even are "Real" Developers

What even is a real developer? It’s a concept I have to battle a lot as a developer myself and as a manager and trainer of other devs.


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arkmuntasser.com
Mar 31, 2018

Punching Nazis is an American Pastime

Indiana Jones killed so many Nazis, like, if it were anyone other than Nazis you would say it bordered on excessive


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arkmuntasser.com
Jan 23, 2017