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The natural sciences are concerned with how things are. Design, on the other hand, is concerned with how things ought to be.

Herbert Simon

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The point is not to mistake the success and confidence of moguls like Musk for a path out of our troubles. To hand over the keys, so to speak, and watch what happens. To, say, let Bill Gates, who made his fortune dominating software and was also ‘the richest man in the world,’ solve world health from on high. To let Jeff Bezos, another one-time ‘richest man in the world,’ create the standard for how we get stuff and how we treat the workers who get that stuff to us.

It’s time to stop hero worshiping the tech billionaires ]]> Serangoon Road in 1966. https://dullneon.com/randomnotes/2021/12/serangoon-road-1966.html Mon, 20 Dec 2021 04:21:22 +0000 https://dullneon.com/randomnotes/?p=7178 Where Serangoon Road, Selegie Road and Bukit Timah Road converge ]]> ForcedEntry. https://dullneon.com/randomnotes/2021/12/forcedentry.html Sun, 19 Dec 2021 16:28:57 +0000 https://dullneon.com/randomnotes/?p=7177

]]> CSS Surrealism, y’all. https://dullneon.com/randomnotes/2021/12/css-surrealism.html Wed, 15 Dec 2021 07:46:38 +0000 https://dullneon.com/randomnotes/?p=7176 See the Pen Pure CSS – Ceci n’est pas une image by Ben Evans (@ivorjetski) on CodePen.

This is the treachery of CSS? Definitely filing this under ‘art’, not ‘css’.

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