David Edgar's website

Sunday, 20 October 2024

🔖 Manifesto for a Humane Web

A call to action for (re-)building a web designed for humans, not for capitalism

Saturday, 19 October 2024

🔖 Every company should be sold to its employees

I can't decide if this is arch-capitalism or not. I am still brainworkmed by Kim Stanley Robinson's economic models from the Mars trilogy, and fell in love with the idea of joint ownership co-operatives. I loathe stock options offered to employees, which grant no actual ownership, just asking staff to give the company a loan and in return by on puppet strings

🔖 You should make a new programming language

Call to action to explore building your own programming language

Sunday, 09 June 2024

🔖 How to become a pirate archivist - Anna’s Blog

Anna runs Anna's Archive, a search engine of shadow libraries. A big old article on the why's and how's of being a guerilla preserver of books and media.