Sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson, back in 2009:

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.

A related adage I heard, and internalized, recently: “We’re not thinking creatures who feel; we’re feeling creatures who think.” (Via Jason Kottke.)

Pebble (Hacker News): Introducing Pebble Index 01 - a small ring with a button and microphone. Hold the button, whisper your thought, and it’s sent to your phone. It’s added to your notes, set as a reminder, or saved for later review.Index 01 is designed to become muscle memory, since it’s always with you. It’s […]

Matt Massicotte (Mastodon): We’re in a protracted period where not only are settings very important, they are also deeply and persistently misunderstood.The settings you use can have a profound effect on your code.But there are a lot of them! And I think it’s pretty reasonable that you might not want to dig into every single […]

Mike Rockwell: I’ve been a happy Linode customer for years, but they experienced an outage Sunday morning that took my Cloudron server offline, impacting my Mastodon and Pixelfed instances. As of this writing they’re still offline and I’ve received an email letting me know that there is a potential for data loss. Manton Reece: I […]

Nikita Prokopov: Top (Windows 95): great contrast, obvious shapes. Instantly readable.Middle (Windows 11): shapes are still self-explanatory, but contrast is gone.Bottom (Windows 11 Insiders): what am I even looking at? The only shape I can understand here is the Run button. Barely visible, though. Nick Heer: As someone who uses a Windows computer for my […]