Interesting Things on the Internet: July 30th 2018
- The unbearable lightness of regulation (and enforcement). Ethical leaders of companies argue for regulation to hold future-them to account.
- Technical Intuition: Instincts in a Digital World. I like technical intuition as a term, and a concept. That sums up the sort of awareness that I've been trying to bring into my local community, but now gives me a name for it.
- Who Owns the City? Interesting thoughts on municipalism and commoning.
- Small pieces, loosely joined: A unified theory of the web. David Weinberger's 2002 classic. The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis "When Thatcher and Reagan came to power, they promised that the free market would reward individual effort and responsibility, delivering upward mobility and property ownership to those who were willing to work for them. After more than a decade of stagnant real wages and spiralling housing costs, not even conservatives dare suggest that contract survives [...] short of acting as the servants of the super-rich, what is the point of conservatism today?"</li>