Popular smartphone-based currency systems boost local spending

https://communick.news/post/5559192

Against scale

https://communick.news/post/5412515

I think my Steelcase Leap office chair is well past its best, it was pretty beat up when I got it used and that was over a decade ago, I'm pondering a refurbished Humanscale Freedom with the headrest, anyone got one?

#officechair #humanscale

How to win the war for the soul of the internet and build the Web We Want.

"Illich’s thesis is that technology and its derived tools should serve people in a way that enhances their freedom, creativity, independence, and will.

The distillation of those principles on the web through manual code, hand-built social networks, and blogs, points luminously to one answer to the question of how the Internet can best serve humans:
it’s..."

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

#web #internet #blogging #homepage #smallweb #Indieweb #Humanscale #appropriatetechnology #illich

How We Lost Communication to Entertainment

https://communick.news/post/5046205

Dare to be inconvenienced.

We have been trained to prioritize "seamless" experiences over ethical ones. But every convenience has a hidden cost, whether it is labor rights, environmental impact, or the erosion of privacy.

Efficiency is a metric for machines, not for a meaningful life. When we stop choosing products solely for their convenience, we reclaim our agency. We choose local over global, human over algorithm, and sustainable over instant.

What would happen if we stopped using services that do very little good for society, even if it means taking the long way around?

#DareToBeInconvenienced #DareToBe #EthicalLiving #Intentionality #SlowWeb #noai #DigitalSovereignty #deGoogle #privacy #privacymatters #humanscale #degrowth #EthicalConsumerism #SupportLocal #AntiConsumption #LaborRights #SimpleLiving #Mindfulness #LowTech

> The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
#AlberCamus #CamusQuote
#HumanScale #ArtScale #ArtIsLess #WorseIsMore

Minamata's Masato Ogata makes a similar point while talking about their NoBotoke (Jizo) little stone statues placed over the toxic landfill to face the sea...