Jona 🐳

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apophatic agnostic (mostly)
GITHUBhttps://github.com/jklundell
BLOGhttps://pragmatos.net
Jona 🐳Mar 15
Daniel SwainMar 15
I'll be live on KQED Forum from 9-10am PT on Mon, Mar 16 (yes, for the full hour!) to discuss what is likely to become a historic March heatwave across Western U.S. We'll be taking listener questions live; you can listen online as well as over the air. https://www.kqed.org/radio/schedule?date=2026-03-16
Jona 🐳Mar 13
sam henri goldMar 12
The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

Jona 🐳Mar 10
Kim ScheinbergMar 10

@kjhealy
Okay, I let myself fall into the rabbit hole and this made me genuinely lol several times.Not sure how I missed this last year

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/02/06/kerning-and-kerning-in-a-widening-gyre/

Kerning and Kerning in a Widening Gyre

This post summarizes an extended period of deep annoyance. I have tried to solve the problem it describes more than once before and not quite done it. This has, in fact, happened again. I have still not satisfactorily solved the problem. But this time I know why I can’t solve it in a civilized manner. My goal is simple, and reasonable. I want to produce more or less identical plots in both PNG and PDF formats. PNG is a raster format. PDF is a vector format and also the Devil Incarnate. Sometimes you want one format, sometimes the other. Raster formats color in pixels on a grid of some fixed resolution. They are efficient when you need to plot a lot of elements, but you can’t zoom in on them without loss. When you make one, any as it were “structural” information about plot elements is lost. A line or a shape no longer exists as an editable line or shape. It’s just pixels. Vector formats can be easily resized up or down without loss of fidelity and keep more of the structural information used to make the plot to begin with. Lines and shapes remain lines and shapes. But vector formats get big real fast when you have a lot of objects to show, because each one is drawn separately. Also they are the Devil Incarnate. Especially when it comes to one special subset of lines and shapes: fonts.

Jona 🐳Mar 9
Existential ComicsMar 9
Either/Or Bandit -
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/645
Either / Or Bandit

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Jona 🐳Mar 9
Jay KuoMar 9
Abolish ICE. Top to bottom.
Jona 🐳Mar 1
Scott Williams 🐧Feb 28

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

- Eisenhower

Jona 🐳Mar 1
Chris EspinosaFeb 28
So let me get this straight. If you’re an autocratic supreme leader of a rogue nation who randomly attacks foreign countries and brutally represses internal dissent, then regional and global superpowers can just assassinate you in a bombing campaign? That’s how it works?
Jona 🐳Feb 28
Show threadDavid RobertsFeb 28
Imagine a government setting out to protect its citizens from enshittification rather than serving as one of its primary accelerants.

Breaking Free
Breaking Free

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.

Forbrukerrådet
Jona 🐳Feb 28
David RobertsFeb 28
This is amazing.

The Enshittificator
The Ensh*ttificator

Vimeo
Jona 🐳Feb 27
G Elliott MorrisFeb 27
The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...