Journalistische Freiheit: Ameisenaufstand.
Angebern wir Juan Carlos I. verschafft der Abschuss einer Ameise keinen Distinktionsgewinn. Recht selten sieht man als Trophäe eine vom Präparator ausgestopfte Ameise an einer Wohnzimmerwand hängen. Das Ameisenfell taugt nicht mal als Bettvorleger.
Trotzdem haben diese Gliederfüßler erstaunliche Eigenschaften.
Why has climate economics failed us?
(…) a Nobel-winning climate economics model recommends that the economic cost of doing anything more than we’re already doing to stop climate change is too high.
That’s obviously bananapants (…)
Relevant: After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep.
Why don’t we stop treating it as entirely normal that the more obviously one’s work benefits others, the less one is likely to be paid for it; or insisting that financial markets are the best way to direct long-term investment even as they are propelling us to destroy most life on Earth?
Your E-Mail Validation Logic is Wrong.
I'm sorry. I know you thought that validating an email address is simple, but I'm afraid that you're wrong here. It's a bit more complicated than you think. Quite a bit, actually.
We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa.
Juneteenth, June 19, 2021.
Profit Without Oppression Conference.
Every part of our current political, social, and economic systems, institutions, and policies are rooted in oppression. They require domination, theft, dishonesty, discrimination, and the harming of others as fuel to operate AND are designed to discourage, and even crush, any challenge.
Coming full circle with full circles.
A website made of text messages (via phasedust.com).
I bet you've got a phone handy right now and — even if you're the last hold-out with a flip phone or a slider — I bet it can text and take pictures. That's all you need to make a really cool, really great website. Old-school, wholesome, nerdy fun at your fingertips: that's what this is about.
The only “trick” is that this preparation seems so boring, so impossibly tedious, that when we see the effect we can’t imagine that anyone would do something so tedious just for this simple effect.
Vaporwave photography?
Vanity
Via thisiscolossal.com.
The right right thing to do.
Am I happy? Am I generous? Am I contributing to the world? The moral struggle we face is finding a way to honestly and accurately answer ‘Yes’ to all three of these questions at once, over the course of a life that presents us with many obstacles to doing so.
If you can spare some time…
On Git Commit Messages.
The best reason for a good commit message is to help people understand the changes being made.