Upon returning from a WordPress Congress last week (namely WordCamp Europe 2025 in Basel, Switzerland), I had some reservations concerning in the WordPress community’s evolving cultural norms. This week, these reservations became even more rampant as I became aware of signs that some of my own views may be being censored. Censorship is always a… Continue reading How Censorship Can Be Particularly Damaging to Open Source Projects
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Losing the plot
I was at an event over the last few days which I will probably write a lot more about over the coming weeks, but there were a few interactions I had with others which have prompted me to write about this topic — and in particular the way I see it. In my humble opinion,… Continue reading Losing the plot
Relational Data-Based Logic & Meta-Physical Constraints
When I as author of a text choose a title for that text, then I become an author on a different level. The descriptors I choose describe other descriptions. On a gut level, we feel this by being aware that the choice of a title feels more significant than the choices of commas or similar… Continue reading Relational Data-Based Logic & Meta-Physical Constraints
Spoken vs. Written Language
Writing this week’s blog post has been difficult, because I have experienced significant trauma related to the topic of this post. In graduate school, I wrote an essay on the differences between written and spoken languages in a course called “diachronic linguistics”, in which I came to the conclusion that it is impossible to study… Continue reading Spoken vs. Written Language
Are You Experienced?
I’m a huge fan of Jimi Hendrix — I guess he must have been rather funny. This title of his (“Are You Experienced?” was the so-called “title track” song from his debut album) was obviously meant to be provocative, at least to people who are open to actually hearing and listening to the words …… Continue reading Are You Experienced?
We Have All Been Here Before
If you’re familiar with the “hippie” generation in the United States, you may also remember this refrain (quoted in the title of this post) from a song by a musical group of hippies named “Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young” — “Deja Vu”. Many years later I heard a song by Frank Zappa (which was probably… Continue reading We Have All Been Here Before
The Progression from Progress through Progressive towards Progressivism
For a couple of centuries, progress has been an industrial undertaking. During this time, smokestacks and iron buildings were built to embellish many skylines. Today, many of these rusty ruins remain as relics of what once happened. And similar “progressive” plans are still being built to make similar results happen somewhere else (in the spirit… Continue reading The Progression from Progress through Progressive towards Progressivism
Scaling Time
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist https://www.wittgensteinproject.org/w/index.php/Logisch-philosophische_Abhandlung#1 When I turn on the radio, I usually expect to be entertained more than I expect to be informed — and my expectations seem to be confirmed time after time. This morning was no exception. This morning I heard that something had happened in Vancouver (Canada)… Continue reading Scaling Time
They’re Eating the Sperm
While the global news cycle is winding down to take a little break and people all over listen the Pope’s “urbi et orbi” Spiel speech, I’ve decided to use this space to cover so-called “women‘s issues” and to highlight yet another episode of Bridget’s “Dumpster Fire” series (over at phetasy.com ). People who follow my… Continue reading They’re Eating the Sperm
All the Lobbies’ Lobbyist
This post is probably going to be shorter than most — because it’s so simple and straightforward, I find it hard to fathom how this might need saying at all. First: What does it mean that you have an organization doing business in the modern world, and the only way the organization “shows up” via… Continue reading All the Lobbies’ Lobbyist
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