Notes

I’m not going to be clutching my pearls over the demise of monoculture. Somehow, I survived into adulthood without watching Seinfeld, Friends, The Office, etc. and if I was eager for shallow shared experiences I’d watch sports.

I normally roll my eyes at agency trend reports, often technophilic navel gazing, but @fjord’s 2020 edition feels both meaningful and (mostly) realistic.

This good but too long takedown of how we’re accounting for climate change is worth it for the WWII analogy: https://via.hypothes.is/https://theweek.com/articles/850637/deadly-hidden-risks-within-most-prominent-economic-model-climate-change#annotations:BzPUXCZVEeqSNOM8u-HBxA

R.I.P. Chuck Peddle

A few things we’re worrying about in the Netherlands this Christmas:

• Bikes with crates taking up too much space
• International influence leading some of us to work on the holidays
• The sea will swallow us all because you eat animals and drive everywhere

Twitter violence predicts real life violence. https://doi.org/c9qh

Some hope, for…

…redressing of the bias reportedly present in ‘predictive policing’ efforts, by refocussing the algorithmic lens away from those historically targeted by police, onto those that perpetrate harms