Two very moving Aeon videos.
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The rifleman – How did the NRA transform from a sporting group to a mighty political force?
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Degrees of uncertainty – How much can science really tell us about the future of climate change?
How Privacy and Disinformation Are Related.
(…) when we say, “I haven’t done anything wrong,” what we really mean is, “I’m in a group of people who are privileged enough to not be subject to prosecutorial discretion.”
1968: So protestierten Hannovers Studenten (via aeon.co).
Zweiter Teil der HAZ-Serie über die Revolte um das Jahr 1968 herum. Studenten waren maßgeblich an den antiautoritären Protesten beteiligt. Und der Staat lieferte beständig neue Argumente für die Bewegung.
Poste das eigentlich in erster Linie, weil ich das Hitler-Icon auf dem Transparent (»Nochmal? Mit uns nicht!«) so überraschend modern finde.
Le web des domaines de premier niveau.
The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam.
So that was the secret: the creators of Scorecounter also made an online HTML editor which injects links for certain keywords. The beauty of this scam is that by injecting links to their own HTML editor, they have created a brilliant positive feedback loop: the higher the editor rises in the search rankings, the more people use it and the more secret links they can inject.
TIL Niklas Luhmann resembles Larry David.
Einführung in die Kommunikationstheorie.
Rust from a JavaScript perspective – A tongue in cheek walk-through (via javascriptweekly.com).
Of course, 808 State’s New Build album does not mark the “birth of electronic music”. I just learned that “90” was not their first album. 32 years later. Ah bon.
If Then – How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future.
The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge—decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica.
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you.
We created a multi-variant targeted ad designed to show you the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to. The ad would simply display some of the information collected about the viewer which the advertising platform uses. Facebook was not into that idea.
