What looks like apathy is often risk management.

What looks like disengagement is a cost-benefit calculation.

I wrote about the collapse of civic belief - and why cynicism isn’t a crisis of morality.

It’s a failure of systems.

https://www.theindex.media/the-market-for-hope-is-in-recession/

“Toolmen | A Working Library”

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen

> Engaging with AI as a technology is to play the fool—it’s to observe the reflective surface of the thing without taking note of the way it sends roots deep down into the ground

Truth.

How many poets does it take to change a lightbulb? It's more complicated than you thought, by some way, and worth thinking about.

https://youtu.be/vjD7BLJ3MvM?si=l7jR6t3mTiSYLAlZ

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

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This cartoon about AI reminded me of a story that I heard recently.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/may/14/can-we-stop-racist-ai-taking-over-everything-sure-but-we-could-have-stopped-climate-change-as-well

A friend of ours has a sister who has become a worshipper of Lucifer. (No big deal there, just another deity; you pays your money and you takes your choice.)

If you like music, and you also build software, check out our engineering roles. We've just posted roles for an SRE and a Data Engineer, and there will be frontend and platform engineering posted soon.

https://about.beatport.com/careers/

The roles are tagged with #Seattle but they're remote wfh - we're hiring anywhere in the Pacific Northwest, including #VictoriaBC (where we have a core team), BC, WA and OR.

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