Make me think!
I am increasingly wary of the term “user centered design”. The word “user” has a second meaning — “consumer of drugs”— which implies dependance, short-sighted gratification and a reliable source of income for the “dealer”. The word “centered” excludes pretty much everyone and everything else.
[Proposal] Content Aggregation Technology.
Over the past years, many proprietary content aggregation technologies have been developed and deployed (AMP, Apple News Format, Facebook Instant Articles, MIP, Web Bundles). They have, however, largely been produced without the involvement of the parties whose content they aggregate. The primary intent of this document is to rectify this situation.
Relevant: CAT, W3C Editor's Draft.
Performance Marketing und Datenschutz muss kein Widerspruch sein.
Performance Marketing ist aktuell mit verantwortlich für die allgegenwärtige Überwachung im Netz. Ich habe aufgeschrieben, wie es anders geht.
Watch The Flaming Lips play gig with crowd inside plastic bubbles (via futurism.com).
Your Phone Wasn’t Built for the Apocalypse.
An Instagram post tagged #nofilter makes an implicit claim against artifice: This is how it really looked. And yet, there is no such thing as an unfiltered image, just differently filtered ones.
Ranking the Pain of Stinging Insects, From ‘Caustic’ to ‘Blinding'.
Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?
Falsetickers, Truechimers et al.
Clock synchronization, keeping all of the clocks on your network set to the “correct” time, sounds straightforward: our smartphones sure don’t seem to have trouble with it. Next, keep them all accurate to within 100 microseconds, and prove that you did -- now things start to get tricky.
Why were the Ik people vilified as selfish and nasty?
Turnbull’s argument that Ik culture had become selfish as an adaptation to conditions of scarcity was taken up uncritically by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who used the Ik as an example of a selfish human culture in his bestselling book The Selfish Gene (1976).
Does 5G finally mean curtains for TCP/IP?
TCP/IP likes order: Static addresses that can be used to tag individual packets for routing to well-known destinations. We, however, live in an online world of complete chaos. Who knows where anything is anymore? It’s sorta like my house, really.
Relevant: HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future.
Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review.
Taking a relational approach, we argue that household water insecurity is a product of institutionalized structures and power, manifests unevenly through space and time, and is reproduced in places we tend to assume are the most water‐secure in the world.