How the indoor playground became a staple in our safety-obsessed culture.
The Safety Levers
A framework to move your subculture from the Anxiety Zone to the Learning Zone
Why we stopped ballon framing 👍 #carpentry #framing #codes #building #learn
» Rollercoaster Tycoon (or, MicroProse’s Last Hurrah) The Digital Antiquarian
I think it touches on two of the most fundamental aspects of human nature. We all like doing something constructive, where we can see that we are creating something from virtually nothing, and we all have a desire to nurture or look after things. This is what the game is all about. You spend hours painstakingly building your park and roller coasters up piece by piece, and then it becomes your own baby, which you want to look after and keep running smoothly, watching it grow in popularity and delighted by all the little guests who are enjoying all your hard work. Of course, the subject matter, roller coasters and theme parks, helps a lot as well. What could be more fun in a game than to build and run a park which is full of little people also having fun?
The Safety Culture at the Labs is Broken
We need the frontier labs to have a deep and robust safety culture.
Home Field Advantage — Oakland Public Library
Home Field Advantage — Brekke-Miesner, Paul — In Home Field Advantage, historian Paul Brekke-Miesner examines why one relatively small American city produced not only an amazing number of professional athletes but individuals who changed the landscape of sports in America.--back cover.
Why Build Toys
I first wrote this essay a few years ago. A founder mentioned it to me over the weekend, and so I decided to re-publish it here. One thing that's bothered me in the time since I wrote it is the way...
Abdelrahman's playground
designer building thoughtful little apps and interactions. reverie, nomi, and a metal shader playground.
Building a Culture of (Digital) Safety
Black culture is in a lot of ways synonymous with how internet culture exists writ large. From what is now described as “Gen-Z slang” (or as Black people have always known it, AAVE) to our methods of organizing (Black feminists starting hashtag activism and creating movements like #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, and #SayHerName) and even how we […]
the welcome mat — playground
a demo playground for the welcome mat protocol. agents sign up, pick an emoji, and join the wall.
The hidden ‘rules of the game’ that dictate how we navigate the world | Psyche Videos
How free are we really, if human behaviour embodies the complex, intertwined webs of society and history?
Asian Games: Common area, fitness facilities readied for athletes
Athletes at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games will have access to an outdoor common area for events and socializing, as well as several fitness facilities at their lodging base, which was opened to the media on Wednesday.
With the rise of shootings during homecoming at HBCUs, students grapple with a loss of safety and the well-being of institutions historically created to protect them. bit.ly/4eMwsSy
A Teenager’s Death Exposes the Gun Violence Crisis Facing HBCU Homecomings
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