Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.
@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 — and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.
That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).
this is the kind of writing i'm always on the lookout for, subject, sphere, style, clarity
This is an amazing read about resistance.
So many amazing lines in this piece, but one that stands out:
"We proved that you can bring a trillion-dollar security apparatus to its knees with one well-aimed rubber cock."
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
@zackwhittaker Thank you for the great link! This is a #mustread written so wonderfully vivacious and humorous (despite the danger), cleverly to the point! "You can’t baton your way out of #satire. You can’t gas a punchline. And you absolutely cannot maintain authority while tear-gassing people over a rubber dick."
"Before coffee arrived in Europe, the average citizen began their day with a tankard of beer. .. so for hundreds of years, the Western world operated in a mild, depressive haze of alcohol. Then came the bean. Almost overnight, the morning depressant was replaced by a stimulant. The collective fog lifted. The result was the Enlightenment: a society that woke up, sobered up, and began to ask dangerous questions about why kings and popes held all the power." #MustRead #USPol https://coffeegeek.com/opinions/state-of-coffee/silence-is-no-longer-an-option-why-coffeegeeks-must-reject-fascism/
“The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.
Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”
The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement. I agreed with it entirely. So, it seemed to me, did most of the non-Americans.
… it was still being talked about the next day. “Thank God,” one allied official said to me. “Someone had to tell them.””
Design Thinking Books You Must Read
https://www.designorate.com/design-thinking-books/
#HackerNews #DesignThinking #Books #MustRead #Innovation #Learning #Creativity
breaking news! you can now also listen to my audiobook on Antenna pod, a open source podcasting app! I release one chapter a week of my book The Moongazers. It is about queer pirates in the post apocalypse trying to unlearn all the shitty behaviours that capitalism has put into us. Like individualism and yadieya! You can also listen on my website. https://roverversteeg.nsnm.net/audiobook/
RE: https://todon.nl/@Roverrr/115899107049413831
Listen to this great audiobook on @AntennaPod by @Roverrr! *Moongazers* is the English translation from the #anarchist dystopian (or utopian? 🤔) #sciFi novel *Maanzingers*. A #mustRead and now a #mustListen!
Please boost to reach more folks. 🙏
breaking news! you can now also listen to my audiobook on Antenna pod, a open source podcasting app! I release one chapter a week of my book The Moongazers. It is about queer pirates in the post apocalypse trying to unlearn all the shitty behaviours that capitalism has put into us. Like individualism and yadieya! You can also listen on my website. https://roverversteeg.nsnm.net/audiobook/
RE: https://todon.nl/@Roverrr/115899107049413831
Listen to this great audiobook on @AntennaPod by @Roverrr! *Moongazers* is the English translation from the #anarchist dystopian (or utopian? 🤔) #sciFi novel *Maanzingers*. A #mustRead and now a #mustListen!
Please boost to reach more folks. 🙏
We did some Sunday bookshop visit today, stacking up on #MustRead. One each.
Empire if AI by @karenhao
Enshitification by @pluralistic
5 year old we met after „I want to read the poop book!“
We did some Sunday bookshop visit today, stacking up on #MustRead. One each.
Empire if AI by @karenhao
Enshitification by @pluralistic
5 year old we met after „I want to read the poop book!“
“The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.
Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”
The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement. I agreed with it entirely. So, it seemed to me, did most of the non-Americans.
… it was still being talked about the next day. “Thank God,” one allied official said to me. “Someone had to tell them.””
New article from me today about the new study of Finland's basic income experiment that found recipients of unconditional income had 33% better mental health than the control group that got the same amount of money with conditions. I also dive into a lot of other evidence about #UBI and mental health.
@scottsantens a #mustread for #Bürgergeld #Bürgergeldreform in Germany ...
Here's a gift link for that article because A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia is a #MustRead#AmIRight? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/world/canada/brush-fire-bc-interior-fish-power-lines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU8.ZG_b.5BRfw-NQHGgm&smid=url-share
https://mastodon.social/@weatherwest/114965724417377577
Here's a gift link for that article because A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia is a #MustRead#AmIRight? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/world/canada/brush-fire-bc-interior-fish-power-lines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU8.ZG_b.5BRfw-NQHGgm&smid=url-share
https://mastodon.social/@weatherwest/114965724417377577
On my list: #book by #LukeKemp:
“ #History is best told as a story of organised crime,” ... “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory & population. [...]The key thing is this is not about all of #humanity creating these threats. It is not about human nature. It is about small groups who bring out the worst in us, competing for profit and power and covering all the risks up.”
On my list: #book by #LukeKemp:
“ #History is best told as a story of organised crime,” ... “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory & population. [...]The key thing is this is not about all of #humanity creating these threats. It is not about human nature. It is about small groups who bring out the worst in us, competing for profit and power and covering all the risks up.”
