Politics
What if They Had Spent It on Peace?
Not only should we fight against civilian infrastructure intentionally being destroyed and entire civilian populations being displaced and killed—we must question the whole bias for violence.
#88 ·
The Violence Imperative
Violence is too severe to tolerate.
#87 · · philosophy, misc
On Lost Trust in European Leadership
If leadership masks complicity as solidarity, trust doesn’t just erode. A look at European silence and the cost of unconditional support for never-ending violence in the Middle East.
#86 ·
Israel and the USA Really Declared War on Everyone
No one is safe when countries act with brutality and impunity.
#85 ·
Yet Another War
Our handling of violence is broken: We need to become much more just and empathetic in deciding what violence we tolerate and what violence we fight and hold others accountable for.
#84 ·
Moving Away From US Services: A Few Favorites
On increasing the price for disrespecting international law and the international community, by changing our choices on who gets our attention and our money.
#83 · · development, misc
On Living in a World That Suffers and Burns
What helps us deal with this spiraling mess out there is understanding something about our model of the world, making conscious decisions about who we are, and being smart about how we bring about change.
#82 · · philosophy
A Secret
10 years ago—
#81 · · philosophy, misc
A Suggestion for Your Community Terms and Policies
Protect your community from including anyone realistically linked to war crimes or genocides, including former, current, and reserve members of the armed forces of implicated countries.
#80 · · misc
3 User-Friendly Technical Ways to Respond to Genocidistan
Imagine a country that colonizes another nation, attacks and murders their people, attacks other countries around them,—and no one stops them. What would you do? What could you do?
#79 · · development, misc
The Economy Is Important Because
A thesis.
#78 · · philosophy
Everyone Should Earn the Same
A thought experiment.
#77 · · misc
Millionaires and Billionaires
On being able to do amazing things for humanity and the planet, and doing the opposite.
#76 · · misc
The Other Problem With Not Helping an Entire People Being Murdered in a Genocide
On the consistency that seems needed for everyone to be safe.
#75 ·
No Islamophobia
On remaining vigilant against hatred.
#74 · · misc
Can We Condemn All Acts of Terrorism?
“No” to all violence—yet what if that ends up supporting oppression or worse? A scenario.
#73 ·
.htaccess: A Helper Script to Easily Block Website Traffic by Country
On making it easy to pull and customize IP ranges from IPdeny.
#72 · · tools, development
Tech Is Political: Take More Action Against Countries and Organizations Engaged in Wars, Genocides, and Misanthropy
As consumers, social media participants, and website owners, we can do a lot more to protest and increase consequences for crimes against minorities or humanity as a whole.
#71 · · development
The Great Disappointment
It’s 2025, and web development has never appeared more apolitical. On tech influencers, without a cause.
#70 · · development
A Chromium Browser Extension to Counter Warmongering, Genocidal, Misanthropic Actors
Block navigating to and loading from URLs, domains, and entire top-level domains with a user-configurable browser extension.
German Holocaust Remembrance Culture Is Dead Inside
We do not stop genocides by cherry-picking which ones to regret.
#68 ·
My War, Genocide, and Misanthropy Policy
If our countries don’t take meaningful action to put an end to large-scale crimes, it doesn’t mean we have to just watch.
#67 · · misc
This Is My Child
It should not be alive and well only because his parents are white people living in a European democracy not governed by fascists.
#66 · · misc
Ethics: On the Suspicion That Utilitarianism Is Failing Us
Utilitarianism isn’t inclusive. Focusing on responsibility, as one option, helps us better connect with everyone around us.
#65 · · philosophy
Lifeform User Story
On sentient beings of all species being dominated and their habitats destroyed.
#64 · · misc
Ethics in Tech: On an Issue Particularly Sensitive to Germans
When it’s about learning from your country’s crimes.
#63 · · misc
Connection to the Environment
On that feeling of being one with everyone and everything that we’re all experiencing.
#62 · · misc
Empathy
Lack of empathy is not a sign of strength, but a liability for all of us.
#61 · · misc
Prisoner’s Dilemma
On “tit for tat” with about 10% more forgiveness.
#60 · · philosophy, misc
On Deciding Who We Are
When a country cannot agree to “advancing a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace in Ukraine” (or other countries).
#59 · · philosophy, misc
On Making Sure Everyone Is Taken Care Of
For our own sake.
#58 · · philosophy, misc
Private Property
A quote, from Daniel Loick, that isn’t new, that isn’t all.
#57 · · philosophy, misc
Genocide Dilemma
On what it means that we’re still committing and accepting genocides.
#56 ·
3 Things to Note About Democracy
If we think democracy can do without education, constructive intentions, and quality candidates, I believe we’re not getting democracy—and risk it.
#55 ·
Growth
A rant.
#54 · · misc
What Germany May Not Have Learned From the Holocaust
No matter who is being violated, learning from a genocide means fighting against any genocide.
#53 ·
On Disagreement
From discomfort that can lead to shortcuts to challenges that may yield transformations.
#52 · · misc
On Mass Unemployment
Could there be something like an AI employment apocalypse?
#51 · · ai
Highlights From “On Liberty” (John Stuart Mill)
“The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. A contemporary author has well spoken of “the deep slumber of a decided opinion.‘”
#50 · · philosophy
Highlights From “The Psychology of Revolution” (Gustave Le Bon)
“Men judge with their intelligence, and are guided by their characters. To understand a man fully one must separate these two elements.”
#49 ·
Sustainability Trap
On the need to take and at the same time reassign responsibility for consumption and pollution.
#48 · · misc
Exploitation
What and who is easiest to take advantage of and exploit, how is that being justified, and what can be done about it? On one piece of the puzzle what the fewest things are that need changing, to change everything.
#47 · · philosophy
Give
On one-things and lack.
#46 · · philosophy, misc
Highlights From “The Social Contract” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.”
#45 · · philosophy
Highlights From “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” (Max Weber)
“The modern rational organization of the capitalistic enterprise would not have been possible without two other important factors in its development: the separation of business from the household, which completely dominates modern economic life, and closely connected with it, rational book-keeping.”
#44 · · philosophy
“The One With the Biggest Hammer Wins”
On a game we could stop playing.
#43 · · philosophy, misc
Reasons to Listen to Whom You Don’t Agree With
Our culture has become one of canceling, of reacting to what we disagree with and whom we dislike by ignoring, unfollowing, blocking, banning, ostracizing. Camouflaged as non-violent protest, it can well be passive-aggressive intolerance of views and people.
#42 · · misc
The Choice to F Up
On the things we are doing and not doing, how these things are not and cannot be accidents, and how it all revolves around choice.
#41 · · philosophy, misc
People Care
It seems easy these days to lose faith in people. We’re destroying the planet, elect the least competent and least humane of our peers for presidents, kill our own people when we don’t kill people in other countries, &c.—and yet we all care.
#40 · · misc
On Disclosing Our Salaries
For a year now I’ve been toying with the idea of publicly disclosing my salary, as well as my financial assets. Not because of me, but because I’ve come to believe that this step, if taken by others, too, would be a step towards more transparency.
#39 · · misc