Design, communication & ethics
The Borg Complex describes a behavioral pattern wherein people see resistance to technology as pointless. "Technology is inevitable," they say, and we simply must adapt. It is a form of fatalism, often disguised as optimism. It also undermines independent thinking.
It's not just a "tool" that can be used for good or bad. Its inferred essence is to replace a practice that helps you think and grow. To make you less you and more "humanized".
On the final day of April 2026 she drew her last breath. On June 1 she would have turned ten. She has meant the world to us, and more.
A workshop tool you can use to help participants think about the short and long-term consequences of building new technology.
The people behind Chat Control claim that they are not breaking end-to-end encryption. At the same time, private messages on services with end-to-end encryption will be intercepted to uncover crimes. This means that we have to seriously start talking about the thought experiment Schrödinger&
I get that voice cloning is a wonderful technology for people who have lost their voice and want to use their own voice for expressing their own words. That is giving someone control over self-expression, and self-respect. But when voice cloning is used to copy someone else’
In the last week of July 2025, which also happens to be Pride week here in Stockholm, LinkedIn has changed its policy texts on what language and forms of expression is tolerated. Previous terminology that explicitly addressed offensive treatment of trans people has been removed.
When topics of discourse prove difficult to approach, stories can help us on our way. This famed short story about a graceful city with an unexpected abberation helps me reflect on where I want to apply my capacity for writing, sketching and teaching.
A walkthrough of why you should choose Signal over WhatsApp, and how a focus on encrypted communication can be deceptive.
I spend a great deal of time evaluating tools that can replace the Big Tech variants that mistreat us. This includes services that just make my online life easier, with bonus points for small, friendly and sustainable.
We find ourselves in a situation where the authorities have heaps of information about you as a citizen, and you don't know what this information is, whether it is correct or what it is being used for. Do the authorities themselves know?
What did the SHIFT key really shift and why do computer programmers still have to care about carriages? Learn all about it, and why the original Qwerty layout didn't offer keys for the digits one and zero.
With the option of using your own domain name as a username, Bluesky becomes extra appealing.
I often warn people about QR codes, but it's easier to understand the seriousness of these warnings when you can clearly see what a scam looks like. Here is a film I was given the okay to use for educational purposes (with my voiceover). In the video a
On Monday October 14 it's been eight weeks since my open heart surgery . This means that my sick leave comes to an end and I'm back to work at my regular capacity. "Regular capacity" might be pushing it a bit. I obviously feel a