Good news, boppers.
AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search.
When the Push Button Was New, People Were Freaked.
(…) pushing a button “seems to relieve one of any necessity for responsibility about what goes on behind the button.” That resonates now, more than a century later, when technology is even more complicated and even more intimately entwined with our lives. The “black box” reigns supreme.
Relevant: Big Honking Button.
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Introducing WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in your browser (via javascriptweekly.com).
That’s right: the Node.js runtime itself is running natively, inside the browser, for the first time ever.
When people try to fix someone’s identity as one particular characteristic, it can lead to misunderstanding, stereotyping, discrimination. Our currently polarised rhetoric seems to do just that – to lock people into narrow categories: ‘white’, ‘Black’, ‘Christian’, ‘Muslim’, ‘conservative’, ‘progressive’. But selves are much more complex and rich. Seeing ourselves as a network is a fertile way to understand our complexity.
Building skills, data, and networks to support disaster risk management and urban planning in Africa.
WiFi SD Cards? And they are running Linux?!?
Hacking Transcend WiFi SD Cards.
Re 8 Mai.
Deutschland und Antisemitismus: Wer von Befreiung spricht.
Der 8. Mai sollte nicht als Tag der Befreiung, sondern als Tag des gerechten Sieges über die Deutschen begangen werden.
Every child on their own trampoline (via densediscovery.com).
Capitalism pushes us towards private affluence. We aspire to acquire our own things. Shared things are seen as second best, something of an inconvenience. Politics responds accordingly, prioritising economic growth and ‘more money in your pocket’, rather than shared goods and services. So everyone has their own lawnmower while the grass grows long in the park. People get their own exercise bikes or rowing machines, and the gym at the local leisure centre starts to look tired and under-funded. The wealthy pay for childcare or hire a nanny, but the early years nursery closes down.
How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body.
As is so often the case, those who did the enduring were women, and in many cases, specifically, women of color. Despite a history of invention that has rendered the ascent of computing as a uniquely white male activity, women were there, everywhere—for it was their bodies that would be on the frontlines of the dramatic transformations in workplace automation wrought by computing terminals in the 1970s and personal computers in the 1980s.
