[SC 2.4.4] Culture isn't imposed
We had a Slack channel unceremoniously closed at work this week. It caused fear, chaos, and isolation, and was incredibly short-sighted and cowardly.
Culture isn't imposed. It's grown and stewarded.
How to pet your cat
Cat butt joystick, cat butt joystick, cat butt joystick.
Sourdough Inn
An in to store your starter and have it cared for, incredible.
The R Word
"The use of ableist slurs is dehumanizing. Disabled people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect."
The prehistoric psychopath
"Analysis indicates that prehistoric hunter gatherers were considerably less violent than the orthodoxy previously held."
'90s Web design Art Studio - Y2K
Incredible.
A Society That Lost Focus
"We need to start to appreciate harder works which don’t offer us immediate short-term profit."
The Greater Boston Zine Scene’s Cultural Compass
Hell yeah, zines. Heall yeah, Boston.
Saint Guinefort
A GOOD AND TRUE SAINT
The mana of digging a grave
"There is something oddly reassuring about the knowledge I now possess and knowing that if required, I can confidently help dig a grave."
How a glitch in an online survey replaced the word ‘yes’ with ‘forks’
Yes.
How Anatolia’s last hunter-gatherers pioneered copper metallurgy 9,000 years ago
This is wild, humans are wild.
The HTML Review
New HTML Review just dropped!
tree.fm – Tune Into Forests From Around The World
Delivers what it promises!
America — and the media — needs a Covid reckoning
"It was a massive, collective world-altering event — and now that it’s over we barely talk about it, because talking about it would mean reckoning with it and no one in power wants to reckon with it."
Designers, your excuse is gone. Stunning, animated and accessible. Yes, you can!
Really proud of my coworkers' efforts here.
Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
Dark forest theory, but make it meaningful information on the internet.
5 high-level CDC officials are leaving in the latest turmoil for the public health agency
I have been holding out hope for so long for a nasal spray, so that I could return to at least a small semblance of normalcy. Alas.
Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
Uhhhhhhh…
The history of the fork
All I am saying is bring back taking a fancy little box with your own personal fork and knife to dinner parties.
Bubble Trouble
"Should the bubble burst, startups and venture funds alike face possible extinction, and a big enough drop from the Magnificent Seven could spark skittish markets to panic, leading to wider economic contagion, given how dependent on the growth of the top technology companies the public markets have become."
Against human extraction design: Designing with Māori
"What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people, the people, the people."
Time Map
A friend made this. It's a maps overlay where you choose your starting point and a direction. It then maps out historical events with a 1 year = 1 foot conversion, to better help people comprehend how long ago events occured.