Care-full musings

This summer I spent a week at Plum Village, a Buddhist monastery in the southwest of France.

Violence is complex.

I recently gave a talk at a doctoral school in Belgium about alternatives to Big Tech software: do they exist, where are they, and how to find them?

"It's so weird that this isn't weird" The voice came out of a pile of around a dozen people.

There's this tenacious idea that in an unequal society, those at the top are the winners.

The first time I heard the phrase 'All Cops Are Bastards' in an activist context, it shocked me.

Often, in discussions about things deemed undesirable, someone will use an annoyingly popular trope.

I'll keep this one short and sweet: Digital archiving is crucial in the face of rising fascism.

I decided to stop drinking caffeinated coffee a few months ago.

Update 19-06-2025: since the publication of this blog post, I have adapted it for the Dutch-language philosophy webzine Bij Nader Inzien, and it was published there today!

I'm constantly being asked and pushed not to care about others.