Links (16 October 2024)
– Baldur
Bjarnason
- “Norway’s Treatment of Sámi Indigenous People Makes a Mockery of Its Progressive Image”. “Norway often presents itself as a defender of human rights around the globe. Yet its treatment of indigenous people within its own borders tells a quite different story.” Nordic countries are only “fair” to you if you fit a specific demographic
- “Unmanaged Climate Risks Undercut AI’s Investment Thesis”. “Tech industry leaders are pledging to address these climate risks, but mostly with investments that will bear fruit in the 2030s and beyond, outside the time period in which scientists say aggressive emissions reductions are most essential.” AI boosters are going to innovate us into catastrophic climate change
- “Prototyping Magic Tricks and Software - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
- “Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? | Oceans | The Guardian”. “The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating”
- “JS0/JSSugar: The Tooling Will Continue Until Morale Improves · Caolan”. “Many JavaScript developers, myself included, would like to rely less on these tools.”
- “Toxic Workers Are More Productive, But the Price Is High | TLNT”. “This suggests more broadly that “bad” employees may have a stronger effect on the firm than “good” employees.”
- “It turns out I’m still excited about the web”. Yup. This.
- “A peasant woodland | A Working Library”. “This is perhaps the greatest conundrum of our current technological era: the desperate need to connect with one another, because it is our only hope of survival; combined with the fact that nearly all the means of connection available to us are deeply—possibly irredeemably—fucked.”
- “Doug Engelbart or: How We Learned to Stop Commanding and Love the Mouse”
- “Chromium’s influence on Chromium alternatives - Seirdy”. “I don’t think most people realize how Firefox and Safari depend on Google for more than “just” revenue from default search engine deals and prototyping new web platform features.” Even the latest release of WPE/GTK WebKit uses Skia for 2D rendering.
- “Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media | by danah boyd | Oct, 2024 | Medium”. “In short, “Does social media harm teenagers?” is not the same question as “Can social media be risky for teenagers?” This framing is the important bit.
- “Queering design systems thinking by John Voss”. “Queer theory looks at institutional violence like this and asks, if this system is built on innate, immutable truths, why does it require so much enforcement to sustain itself?”
- “Whose truths? | everything changes”
- “Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement - Service Manual - GOV.UK”. Solid advice from beginning to end.