In the past few weeks I have been drawn back into complaining about the state of politics and technology, even though I told myself that I want to focus on sharing how to get things done. Because with all the complaining we get a lot of things done at iA. And rather than keeping the know how to ourselves we need to share more, because nothing is as inspiring as seeing others giving their best.
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My biggest learning is that I want us to be more motivating. We have to offer more practical information. Not because I feel that you all should do better. With all these great submissions I see the main value of our work being that you make things with them and I want to support all of you more with how to make great things with our tools.
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We got so many submissions to the iA Awards, we're just about getting through the whole stack around now. After reading text andrer text, presentation after presentation, I am looking forward to an easier way for you to share iA Writer texts, too. In terms of user feedback this at least as insightful as people sending us bug reports and feature requests. I have a pretty clear image of who uses our apps from seeing what you make with them. A huge thank you to all of those who have submitted.
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I've been saying this for years. Big tech needs to follow laws, no matter what CEOs, tech pundits or customers like or dislike. The recent suck up from big tech companies to the king of disinformation and corruption trying to circumvent the rule of law is nasty and dangerous in many ways.
"there is a fight ahead: over who shall regulate the social media platforms that in turn are influential in shaping (and contaminating) public discourse."
https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd
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What makes the article truly deranged isn’t just framing conspiracy theories around JFK or Covid-19 politics as the biggest secrets of our time—it’s the cheap etymology trick of redefining apocalypse, a religious term, as the “unveiling of truth,” and then doubling down on this religious framing to cast Trump as some kind of Messiah. It’s utterly, completely nuts.
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In another pseudo intellectual rambling billionaire investor Peter Thiel claims that high house prices, a broken education system, and the lack of innovation are the “deepest questions.”
https://www.ft.com/content/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105
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We need to move away from all of Meta's platforms—Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, Facebook. All.
Zuckerberg and his circle of tech moguls are driven by the same kind of world domination fantasies we’ve seen unfolding in Trump. If you need an alternative, Bluesky might work, but to me Mastodon still seems like the most viable option.
https://www.404media.co/its-total-chaos-internally-at-meta-right-now-employees-protest-zuckerbergs-anti-lgbtq-changes/
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I am trying to stay away from US news and stay focused on working. Once in a while the idicracy hits me here and there. He now wants to conquer Canada, Greenland and Panama? Must be a misunderstanding, right? No. He said it in a press conference. His sons are in Greenland. CNN has pundits explaining the "rationale". And he said it like the very asshole he is. It's so messed up. And it will get a lot worse. I'm so upset with the idiots that elected him.
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Made a new Presenter template that uses our old iconic font that lets you write icons:
https://sharing.ia.net/presenter/140228dff40b4204af1602fba5fb3a99/view#/
Still needs some optimization with Web sharing (icons don't scale perfectly just yet), but something like that will land in Presenter this year.
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I see it and I will remember it. https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-million-trump-inauguration
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Still loading the batteries. Back next week.
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Should you resist when resistance is "futile"? Resistance is not a deal. You resist because it is the right thing to do, not because you get rewarded. You resist against what is wrong, and whether you succeed doesn't matter. You resist because it's the right thing to do, even if it is neither rewarding nor successful. Being able to resist against superior powers is in itself already a success. In fact, your resistance has a stronger impact if it is against your benefit, if you resist for others.
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We see resistance and take it as a sign that something is wrong. Then we look at who is to blame for the friction and then we try to balance that blame. Trying to balance the blame and get rid of resistance seems rational, healthy and normal.
The idea that resistance is not in itself bad but "a bad sign" already undermines any form of rebellion as aberration or excess—and yet, the true sign that something is wrong is the lack of resistance. Resistance is normal and healthy and necessary.
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The most Swiss thing I can think of is that we clean our tunnels. Apparently, we have been cleaning our tunnels for over 50 years. Supposedly, it's done for safety (clean means bright and bright is safer than dark), but the real reason is that we feel that clean tunnels are just better than dirty tunnels.
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One done, three to go. The next Winterfest 2024 gift is here: A freshly squeezed iA Writer for Windows 2.0, now in public beta.
https://ia.net/topics/ia-writer-for-windows-2-0
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In dieser Episode von Swiss Pioneers über eines meiner Lieblingsthemen, Maker's Knowledge, merkt man, dass ich mich sehr gut mit Sandro Meyer verstanden habe:
https://www.swisspioneers.com/oliver-reichenstein-interview/
(In Swiss German)
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“A couple of years ago, one of my colleagues said that he thought Finland has won the first round countering foreign-led hostile information activities. But even though Finland has been quite successful, I don’t think that there are any first, second or third rounds, instead, this is an ongoing game,” Toivanen said.
“It’s going to be much more challenging for us to counter these kinds of activities in the future. And we need to be ready for that.”
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/
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Here is a little update (fixed a broken link in the header) with a different presentation on Maker's Knowledge:
https://sharing.ia.net/presenter/7393f32bed86431e8864c52fc7eef21f/view#/
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Web Sharing for iA Presenter is just around the corner. Here is how it is going to look and work.
https://sharing.ia.net/presenter/151b01fe55ad4cb1a8ede0eb11813a7a/view#/
It was, again, one of the hardest UI challenges of the last couple of years to solve. After hundreds of iterations, we are pretty happy with this one.
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"What is the Matrix?"
"The Matrix is the world that was pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."
"What truth?"
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