







This code is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. This code was dangerous and repulsive to us. These comments are a warning about danger. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
Freya Holmér
a great battle was fought here
Aug 7, 2026 at 2:38 PM

I Will Not Be Safe
W Social and the ancient art of neighbourliness - We Can Just Do Things
Good behaviour matters more than good code
W Social and the ancient art of neighbourliness - We Can Just Do Things
Good behaviour matters more than good code
We Have No Reason To Be Grateful
On Marshall McLuhan's media environmentalism, what we're missing that artists aren't, and why we might 'have no reason to be grateful' to technology companies.

Moral Code
Moral Code Moral Code is a working moral philosophy wiki: a place to refine a living theory of morality and test it against life, history, current events, readings, and imagined future judgment.

Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner

Center for a Stateless Society
All content on this site is available for republishing under a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication.

Deadly bombing of Iran primary school ‘a grave violation of humanitarian law’: UNESCO
The UN education agency, UNESCO, says that the bombing of a primary school during the US and Israeli military attacks on Iran on Saturday constitutes a grave violation of humanitarian law.

Deeds, Not Words: The Myth of Polite Revolution
A refusal of the sanitized story that rights were won by asking nicely. The suffragettes bombed Westminster Abbey. The Deacons for Defense guarded MLK. Man…

How the United Nations lost its first flag
The Nothings Suite
Nothing to see here! But don’t move along! You can really see the nothing here! Examine the nothing! Think about the nothing! The nothing is where it all begins!

Ukraine Symposium – Terrorizing Civilians and the Law of Armed Conflict - Lieber Institute West Point
Attacking civilians is a clear LOAC violation, but intentionally spreading terror amongst the civilian population is a more nuanced violation.

Lots of scepticism about codes of ethics in this piece but surely the work of sleuthing needs to be grounded in some kind of observable, ethical process. Otherwise it's just as opaque and unscientific as the stuff it's investigating.
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Research sleuths are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/research-integrity/scientific… @mcintold.bsky.social, @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @sholtodavid.bsky.social, @eugenie-reich.bsky.social