I enjoyed @sboots’s essay on becoming a “generative AI vegetarian”, and for a few reasons: it’s a great read, first and foremost, but also my GOODNESS is this well-sourced. Sean pulls together many, many threads here; always grateful for a map like this.

https://sboots.ca/2026/03/11/generative-ai-vegetarianism/

> You see, if somebody robs a store, it's a crime and the state is all set and ready to nab the criminal. But if somebody steals from the commons and from the future, it's seen as an entrepreneurial activity and the state cheers and gives them tax concessions rather than arresting them. We badly need an expanded concept of justice and fairness that takes mortgaging the future into account.

- Ursula M. Franklin, The Real World of Technology

"Gambiarra" is a Brazilian Portuguese word that it's hard to explain, because it's a way of thinking embodied into things, as a way of overcome problems without care about the elegance of the solution; at the same time, with a lot of creativity.

There is an alternative to a Object Oriented Programming (POO in portuguese - Programação Orientada a Objetos) which is POG - Programação Orientada a Gambiarra.

That's more like my way of programming.

I moved to a walkable neighborhood and I see kids outside all of the time

i guess it wasn't video games or phones that were the problem after all

Global temperature variations over the last 2022 years.

Burning fossil fuels is warming the planet, making extreme heatwaves & heavy rainfall more intense & more frequent with severe consequences for people & ecosystems.

To stop the warming we need to stop burning fossil fuels.

"A good day to remember that the rules of the Earth system are determined by physics and biology and the rules of the economy are made up by a small group of self-interested people and could change."

--Dr. Elizabeth Sawin