Beside the point? Punctuation is dead, long live punctuation.
Frustrated by the misunderstandings arising from a failure to catch tone in writing, the English printer Henry Denham invented a mark denoting sarcasm. Denham offered his sign in 1575. A mirrored question mark, he hoped, would flag up a rhetorical question, making it easier to get the drift of the writer’s intention. But it never caught on.
The Hoax Book That Became an Anarchist and Hippie Bible: “The Papalagi”.
(…) supposedly written by a Samoan chief in 1920—offered a societal critique, but carried on a problematic racial trope.
A series of 35 parts about Italian hazelnut spread.
Why focus on gianduia? Well, beyond its intrinsic culinary merit, it has an interesting history that remains largely unknown to chocophiles outside of Italy. Most English-language accounts of gianduia consist of just-so stories rehashed from modern travel writers and print journalists—poorly sourced (if sourced at all) and often conflicting with historical facts and probabilities.
100 Jahre altes Huhn Der Zeit entzogen.
Ob so Religionen entstehen? Immer wieder kommen die Menschen, um dem Huhn zu huldigen, bis irgendwann keiner mehr so richtig weiß, warum eigentlich.
What's a piece of software that you use every day (home or work) and that's so mundane that it never gets covered, but that you wish the tech news covered as much as Facebook, Google, etc, with in-depth analyses and interviews?
— Vicki Boykis (@vboykis) September 11, 2020
Evading Censorship from the Server-side.
Using our tool Geneva, we have discovered how to circumvent censorship from the server-side: with no client participation whatsoever. This opens up new avenues for helping people evade censorship, even if they didn’t realize they were being censored in the first place.
Taking a look at Gerät 32620.
Each week we publish curated syllabi featuring pieces that cut across text, video and audio. The curation runs either along thematic lines – e.g. technology, political economy, arts & culture – or by media type such as Best of Academic Papers, Podcasts, Videos.
Material Zoom – The Hidden Elements of Working from Home Amidst COVID.
Im Oktober 2019 habe ich einen Twitter-Account mit dem Namen „Sexkauf ist Arbeit“ angelegt. Mit diesem Account startete ich eine „Kampagne für die Menschenrechte von Sexkäufer*innen“. Der Titel ist Satire, der Account ein Witz. Mir ist nämlich aufgefallen, dass in der Debatte um Prostitution zumindest auf der Proseite die Freier nur selten erwähnt werden. Dabei werden mit dem derzeit heftig diskutierten Sexkaufverbot die Freier mit Kriminalisierung bedroht und melden sich kaum zu Wort. Dieses Missverhältnis fand ich interessant und wollte da mal nachhaken.