The patriot paradox.
The world needs nations to do good things, such as reduce carbon emissions and stop treating stateless people as less human. To do good things, nations have to be good. But the condition for the existence of good nations is other good nations doing good things for each other – and for those who’ve had their homes taken away because their nations haven’t been good. Why not start there in the quest for new stories of nations for a new global age?
Film simulations from scratch using Python.
Apparently, back in the day, people shot pictures with analog cameras that used film. If you wanted a different “look” to your pictures, you would load a different film stock that gave you the desired look. This is akin to current-day Instagram filters, though more laborious.
Dreaming of Gopher's Past with the Gemini Protocol.
Experimental protocols like Gemini (regardless of whether you care for Gemini) are good because these are coming from people still fighting the good fight of networked experimentation, Internet freedom, and technological exploration.
No clue how I landed on GQ.
Wholesome Windsor, now showing up on album covers and podcasts, has a surprisingly political backstory.
Global Socket allows two workstations on different private networks to communicate with each other.
Through firewalls and through NAT – like there is no firewall.
Radiooooo – The Musical Time Machine (via densediscovery.com).
Progressives who glorify meat consumption are doing free PR for a highly-polluting industry working tirelessly to keep polluting.
A wonderful term and supporting the right cause, although I miss any reference to how unethical mass meat consumption is nowadays. The way we treat animals – and I am not even talking about the slaughtering – is a disgrace for an intelligent species and of course is reflected in the way mankind is treating his fellow humans.
Calendso | The Open Source Calendly Alternative (via densediscovery.com).
Book me and I will never give you up.
Calendso will never let you down.
Open Source will never run around and desert you.
Big Tech und die Pandemie – Smarte Retter in der Not?
Was während der Pandemie verständlich, vielleicht notwendig erscheint, kann schnell eine neue Dynamik entfalten. Wenn es nach GAFA geht, haben sie noch nie genug Daten gesammelt, wissen sie stets zu wenig über das, was die Welt und uns im Innersten zusammenhält. So werden sie weiter an ihren Karten, ihren Gesundheitsservices und Infrastrukturen feilen und damit auch eine Idee von Gesellschaft systematisieren (Maschewski/Nosthoff 2019), in der der expansive, monopolistische Einsatz digitaler Technik so sehr und so anschmiegsam in unseren Alltag einsinkt, dass die Unterschiede zwischen System und Realität, Karte und Gebiet unkenntlich werden.