Publishers aren't evil but they are desperate.
The 49MB Web Page.
I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones.
BanRay.eu – Your face is not inventory.
In 2025, Meta sold over seven million pairs of camera-equipped glasses that look like regular Ray-Bans. The person wearing them looks like anyone else. But these people are now products, as is everyone they interact with.
There are no psychopaths.
Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?
“Prophecy”…
Tracking how close reality is to Mike Judge's 2006 prophecy.
Marilou Schultz (Navajo/Diné), Replica of a Chip, 1994, wool, American Indian Science and Engineering Society. (Via righto.com.)
Jeans nach Maß aus Naturfaser und dem Mühlviertel.
Die NFF Jeans wird aus den Materialien 40% Leinen aus ökologischer mühlviertler Produktion und aus 60% türkischer kbA Baumwolle hergestellt. Alle Produktions.- und Veredelungsschritte bis auf den Spinnvorgang werden in Österreich durchgeführt.
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity.
I think there’s something quietly screwing up a lot of engineering teams. In interviews, in promotion packets, in design reviews: the engineer who overbuilds gets a compelling narrative, but the one who ships the simplest thing that works gets… nothing.
(…) ist ein Konzept, um die Entstehung konfliktbehafteter oder gegensätzlicher sozialer Verhaltensmuster oder kultureller Normen zwischen Gruppen zu erklären.
“I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up.”
This is the background radiation of the internet.
From Keith Haring to Extinction Rebellion, the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter, what does a revolution look like? Discover the power of words and images in this thought-provoking look at protest art by highly acclaimed artivist, De Nichols.
