Happy New Year to all my friends who made it to 2018 already! You’re the advance guard. How does it look?
A prediction - and a hope - for 2018. https://
Onwards and upwards.
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I’m utterly inspired by Appolition and apps like it. We should have a compassionate society and infrastructure that allows everyone a real chance. But we don’t, so if there are ways to take matters into our own hands (while pressuring government), so be it.
Genuine, voluntary distribution of wealth from those with the ability to those according to their need. My view is that this is a simplified (likely oversimplified) version of what governments need to be doing to support those in need, but here we are. Needs must.
There would be no questions asked about what the money would be used for. If you need it and you qualify, it’s yours. The central account would distribute to neighborhood ATMs according to the local need, with contributions drawn from everywhere.
Withdrawal cards would be distributed by local aid organizations and linked to a specific neighborhood ATM. (Not a bank ATM: a separate machine.) The monthly withdrawal limit would be set according to circumstance according to a rubric; eg, a parent with kids would need more.
Idea I’ve been talking about today: what if everyone with the ability could contribute to a central account, with a regular amount that made sense to them, that could then be withdrawn from using a special neighborhood ATM and card by low income and homeless people?
Privacy legislation is important but can’t guarantee privacy - just punitive measures for anyone who’s caught. Instead, bake it into the protocols. Make it mandatory. Human values need to be baked into the way the Internet works.
The only way to prevent mass surveillance and censorship - and therefore ensure that democracy can continue to function - is to make it systemically impossible.
Should academics get involved in social justice issues, even if their research helped uncover the problem in the first place? (Spoiler alert: of course they should.) http://
This is a super-interesting spreadsheet of tech’s “notable” (here, sizeable) exits in 2017.
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This is a great - and a little bit daunting - summary of what happened in front-end web development in 2017. https://
In just over a week I’ll turn 39. They say that your thirties are like your twenties but better; there’s been some truth to that. But what should I definitely do over the next year to close out this arbitrary decade of my life?
This is a technical piece, but summary: letting your web browser remember passwords for you allows websites to track you in ways you don’t expect. Disable that function and use something like 1password instead. https://
Nationalism and exceptionalism divide us far more than Trump’s idiot wall. Everyone is connected. Every person has value and should have the right to live well. Being proud to be an American, or British, or Swiss, or Dutch, is arbitrary. We’re all a global family: proudly human.
A powerful story of immigration, empathy, and love in today’s Daily. Real-life parable. https://
Roast lamb
Goat cheese soufflé with a filo crust
Tofurkey roast [non-homemade]
Vegetarian stuffing
Roast potatoes and parsnips
Cranberry sauce
Vegetarian + lamb gravies
Mince pies + cream
In our low-key way, with everyone making something, happily chatting in the kitchen. 👍👍
“Merry Christmas” was, once upon a time, a drunken snub to the church, while “happy holidays” was the more Christian salutation. Merry Christmas! http://
A devastating, desperately sad story. https://
Meanwhile, over at Modern Farmer, it’s Sheep Week. https://
I mean, sure. This seems normal. https://
In so many cases, "targeting" is really discrimination. The law still applies on the internet. https://
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