Idiomdrottning
Idiomdrottning
Sandra
Idiomdrottning demonstrates a new and often cleaner way to solve most systems problems. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to culture users but at the same time quite foreign.
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I live by the ocean and during the night — Björk Let’s sail all the way out to the sea to a tiny speck of an island where we can explicate and externalize and incarnate our hitherto unspoken grawing worries and fears, Liminalize the...
I will watch the last sunrise —The Handsome Family, “If the world should end in fire” So The Drought, from 1965. I loved The Crystal World and I love how different this is. Crystal World came after but is absolutely no retread. Ballard...
It often strikes me as so wild, the fact that I’m typing this in a curses UI in 2025. I see this less as a vindication of the durability of the textual software stack (although it is) and more as a failure of the stack as the whole. [I...
Gerrymandering is a fancy word for redrawing the voting districts in your favor. In “area control” board games (games where you win a region by having the most representation there, and you win the game by winning most regions) the...
I’m not so sure this nyctograph is that good of an idea. Problem number one is remember which cells you’ve already written in; problem number two is to remember which pages you’ve already written on. I do a lot of my writing in shorthand...
Virtue signaling is great actually. Clearly communicating our values can prevent a lot of grief and help stand up for what’s right. Early on before I started writing more explicitly about politics I got a couple of “I love your blog but...
People hated meetings and phone calls and even answering machines so our current world of short text messages is one we strived for years in order to finally build. People hated reading books, too, that was for eggheads and nerds. So...
Okay before we get into it, for people not familiar with my review style: I’m not really doing good “consumer advice” here on which board game you should buy. I’m doing reviews more for other design nerds like myself who like to pick...
In furniture antique means at least a hundred years old but in the world of phones I’m seeing the word “antique” being used for all pulse dialing phones. Mine is 50 years old, it’s an Ericsson Dialog rotary dial phone. How? Via Bluetooth...
Shaun’s Palestine video from 1½ years ago encapsulates one of the best arguments against digital minimalism. Evil foreign policy and arms shipments (along with climate denial and queerphobia) can thrive in a world where we just suddenly...
So my version of the Omelas story would have a city, not especially utopian but comfy enough for the top sixth or so. The other five sixths are working their knuckles to the bone to support the comfy ones. Even among the comfy ones the...
The calendar emoji is useless and misleading since the example date is so clearly readable 📆 that people don’t understand that it’s an ipsum. Even people who know can misread it. It’s only good if you’re actually talking about literally...
In digital minimalism I’m always like “could people in 1978 do this?” Could they send letters and place calls? Then it’s okay that I use the digital equivalent of that. Were they always reachable? Nope. So then it’s okay that I walk away...
I really oppose market capitalism and it’s up to its defenders to patch the bugs, for example by acquiescing to environmental regulation (like an ETS) and labor laws. And I’ve proposed banning the network effect and ending copyright. Of...
I’ve said before that switching to headphones gives five percent of the benefits (attention, awareness, mindfulness) that going fully phoneless would give for one percent of the effort which is a 400% savings that I’ve applied in my own...