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arn.is
Designing for the last earth • Opinions are my own, I think... (he/him/hän) 📌 Helsinki • 🇫🇮 (from 🇬🇷) Portfolio: https://arn.is/ Cofounder: @jointfrontiers.com Practice: https://mesa.fi
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Self taught, here. If I started all over again I would have gotten at least a degree on it.

You can add, edit and delete bookmarks, you can filter them, and you can search for specific bookmarks. It also automatically takes description or the first sentence of the article as well as OG image or the first IMG Wonky still, but I can start using it already 🥲

Despite all my rage I am still maximizing shareholder value

The age of spectacle: The appearance of work is more important than the purpose of the work itself.

I built a bookmarking tool for my OCD

Keep on ridiculing "AI" garbage, folks. Give companies which rely on these technologies the ire they deserve. (appreciate the voices of @bcmerchant.bsky.social and @shannonvallor.bsky.social in this one as well) www.wired.com/story/genera...

Helsinki celebrates with pride (here’s the city hall)

Everything the media are doing to Zohran Mamdani, they did to Bernie Sanders, to Jeremy Corbyn & to Jean-Luc Melenchon. Demonise him, lie about him, smear him, create fake scandals & misrepresent his policies. It's the textbook process for anyone who dares to challenge Neo-Liberalism.

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

This nonsense about transhumanism acting in the same vein of trans-affirming care is a fundamental misunderstanding of the body, embodiment, and gender. Transhumanism is a death cult where wealthy people bunkers are lined with skulls of the Global Majority.

When radical transhumanism takes the mask off it’s just self-immolation in protest of their own death. BBQ’ing yourself to death to prove you aren’t a “meat bag.” Dismal, suicidal death drive borne of absolute terror of fragility — and by extension, any form of grace. Total bonkers shit.

This rant is part of a larger exploration of our obsession with performance metrics and productivity... For more, read my essay "Against Performance Fetishization"! jointfrontiers.com/against-perf...

Told my wife about today's Supreme Court decision to punish my child for being who they are and she flashed a smile of defiance that could shatter glass. They haven't made us sad, they've made us angry, and we are ready to fight

On Monday we have an event. A talk with Michael Hudson, Steven Keen and Hannah Appel! They will discuss Debt, Empire and the Future of the economy. It will be streamed live on our Youtube page. www.youtube.com/live/FAgj66z...

After 25 years of DJing (and 20 years of starting beats but not finishing them), I'm finally putting some production out...I've got a project coming with @songsbydae, an amazing MC from STL. The Killjoy EP will drop August 8 but the first single and video "Red Pill 84" dropped today.

Yesterday I had an epiphany about a potential book subject or direction: about the “lost futures" of design as we traverse through a period of cultural insignificance. And how this moment and situation affects the things that made design worth something in the first place.

If we stop trying to hold up a system that is already falling apart, then we become available for what will emerge.

TFW Finland has more unemployment than Greece. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web...

Out today: Freedom for Capital not People: The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Origins of the Neoliberal Monetary Order @versobooks.bsky.social

Designers becoming relevant again:

The best philosophical contemplations were dialogues. We’re just lucky that someone was taking notes and they are in written form. That’s all.

OUT TODAY 🎧 we spoke with journalist @seamus-malekafzali.com about Iran's semi-colonial period up to the present highlighting major historical events which help us understand the current geopolitical situation and the US-Israeli war being waged on the country and its people

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.

Don’t forget to go to work tomorrow and be productive.

I’m afraid Europe’s reaction will be even more lukewarm than American democrats’

I don't want to be all doomsayer-y, but the best thing for everyone to do in the near future (whether they wanna study, work, or retire) is to be collapse-ready. Not mitigation of, but adaptation to collapse. We operate with worldviews and institutions of a world that doesn't exist anymore.