Drone Photo Awards 2021 Gallery.

How a nosy bureaucrat accidentally created the first social networking and blogging service.

Many people seem to think that computerized social networking is a recent phenomenon, but it actually blossomed first in1975 aided by a program called Finger that was written for a different purpose, namely snooping on computer users.

Amalia Holst, and how the German Enlightenment failed women.

In the name of our sex I challenge men to justify the right they have presumed for themselves to hold back an entire half of the human race, barring them from the source of science and allowing them at most to skim its surface.

And you are scared of the Dark Net…

The Facebook Files: “This Shouldn't Happen on Facebook”.

In the third episode of our investigative series based on an extensive array of internal Facebook documents, we look at a persistent problem on the platform: human trafficking. WSJ's Justin Scheck describes documents showing that Facebook has closely studied how human traffickers use the platform to ensnare victims and advertise illegal sex services. The documents also show Facebook's response to these findings, which is often inadequate or nothing at all.

1000 Dreams (via densediscovery.com).

Changing prevailing refugee narratives through the [stories of 1000 refugees across Europe. 1000 Dreams is authored by storytellers with a refugee background.

I am super fascincated by the personalities of both, test subject and doppelganger actress… 🤩

Made to Measure is an experiment that asks if you can reconstruct a person based solely on their digital data trail.

Can you build a doppelganger of a person you don’t even know? Record, recreate, and replay the life of someone and their personality in detail? This is exactly what we attempted to do.

So I updated my alternatives to Adobe programs list. It has grown super big with all the programs everyone requested. Icons have shapes now for better redeability. pic.twitter.com/GOdwcurLPu

— xdaniel ♜ (@XdanielArt) September 5, 2021

Vendor lock-in, ick hör Dir trappsen.

Upptime, s the open-source uptime monitor and status page, powered entirely by GitHub.

Remarkable historical footage is locked behind paywalls. It’s time to set it free.

(…) Captured Images tells the story of audiovisual ownership and the monetisation of history itself, making a compelling argument that this vital material belongs to the public.

“I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine.” (Via frontendfoc.us.)