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Today’s quote (above) encapsulates something that’s been on my mind a lot lately. Pretty much everyone in my extended on- and offline social circles understands the dire outlook of our climate crisis, but very few go beyond just acknowledging it. For the vast majority of people I know it’s business as usual. Given that we all know what’s happening, why aren’t we all writing angry letters and marching the streets? Clearly, inaction doesn’t stem from ignorance. For most of us, it stems from indifference.
From this Wired piece on reaching ‘peak indifference’: “The psychologist Robert Gifford once enumerated the ‘seven dragons of inaction’ on climate, from ingrained habits (car culture) to lack of trust (in, say, scientists) to numbness (statistics overload). As the crisis grows, our indifference grows too. But at some point, a crisis gets so bad that it becomes unignorable. Our indifference reaches a peak, begins to decline – and panic emerges.”
No sound decision has ever been made in a state of panic. To fight climate inaction, we first need to fight peak indifference. Importantly, it’s not just up to individuals. We need businesses to stop pretending that business as usual is still ok. If you are a business owner, now is the time to show that you’re willing to walk the walk (quite literally) and encourage your employees to join the global strike on September 20th. See you out there...
– Kai
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Private, fast DNS for your phone
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With this little app by Cloudflare you re-route all of your phone’s traffic through Cloudflare’s DNS server making your web experience faster and more private by encrypting more of the traffic leaving your phone.
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This handy web app allows you to easily redact parts of an image. Just drag the image into the browser and start redacting. Double-click to cycle through different styles.
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I’ve been using a mix of spreadsheets, notes, and a custom Podio setup to manage the many lists of people I collaborate with for Offscreen. Most CRM apps are just too cumbersome and sales-focused. Capsule seems simple enough and connects with a ton of apps I already use. I might give it a try soon...
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Printable sketch templates
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Do you like to sketch out UI ideas on good old paper? This site provides printable templates for all major screen types/sizes.
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Battery-free smartwatch
If it works as advertised, this (currently Kickstarted) watch really deserves the title ‘smartwatch’. Although self-winding technology in a watch isn’t new per se, it takes some real engineering smarts to power a Bluetooth-connected, fitness-tracking watch. And it looks decent too. It’s unfortunate that the cheesy sales language on Kickstarter projects like this always puts me off.
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A guide to cultivating community
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Overheard on Twitter
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grandad: a tattoo will negatively affect your future
me: cut your carbon emissions
grandad: no
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Food For Thought
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Zeynep Tufekci about the tide of deception that has become ‘business as usual’ online and how to beat it. “The internet is increasingly a low-trust society – one where an assumption of pervasive fraud is simply built into the way many things function.” (Possible paywall)
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Not the car itself, but the role of the car in society needs to change in order to be part of a sustainable future: “When I spoke to [Horace Dediu] earlier this year, he provocatively suggested that the issue of climate change would be settled by how much space we choose to give to the car. Keep it at the same rate and we’re doomed; switch to micromobility and we’ll be a lot closer to meeting emissions targets.”
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It’s a bizarre contradiction that the author of Sapiens is treated like a hero by technophiles, while his books issue a stark warning about the societal damage done by the technology coming out of Silicon Valley. “It made him sad, he told me, to see people build things that destroy their own societies, but he works every day to maintain an academic distance and remind himself that humans are just animals. ‘Part of it is really coming from seeing humans as apes, that this is how they behave,’ he said, adding, ‘They’re chimpanzees. They’re sapiens. This is what they do.’”
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Aesthetically Pleasing
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Type superfamily Cobertura has firmly condensed proportions, but unlike the usual condensed designs, it leaves an impression of a script typeface.
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This brand for a library uses lighting and highlighting as a visual metaphor for the idea of enlightenment through education.
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This is the first time I came across the term ‘Urban Dataism’. In this piece artists transferred black and white pixel art onto a real surface, by hand.
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