The novel is set against the backdrop of a dystopian United States that has come under the grip of a Christian fundamentalist denomination called "Christian America" led by President Andrew Steele Jarret. Seeking to restore American power and prestige, Jarret embarks on a crusade to cleanse America of non-Christian faiths. Slavery has resurfaced with "shock collars" being used to control slaves. Virtual reality headsets known as "Dreamasks" are also popular since they enable wearers to escape their harsh reality.
“Pandora Didn't Pay Its Employees for Two Years, or How I do Research.”
As I’m sure you can tell, my feeling on the matter isn’t mixed. I think it’s one more instance on a long list of a large tech company using bold promises and a lofty vision as a way to justify employee mistreatment. It adds to the myth of the world-changing, earth-shattering website, when the truth is that really all the website does is stream music in, I will admit, a gratifying order. And Westgreen is one more example of the fabricated lone (male) tech genius guided only by their own fortitude and ambition, leaving out entirely the connections, luck, and contributions from a large team that required to get the work done.
The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet.
There's [a] misconception that to be a security expert you must dabble in the dark side (…) It's not true. You can learn everything you need to know legally. Stick to the good side.”
These Bugs Armor Themselves in Tiny Shards of Colorful Trash.
Caddisfly larvae are adapting to polluted waterways, but their recycling strategy has its drawbacks.
Vermeintliches Wissen in der Coronakrise: Im Land der Missverständnisse.
Wir neigen also dazu, unser Wissen nur bei dringendem Bedarf kritisch zu prüfen. Das heißt nicht, dass wir alles glauben, was uns nützt, aber zumindest geben wir nicht besonders acht, solange wir als Folge der Ignoranz keinen unmittelbaren Schaden befürchten. Und so hoffen viele von uns weiter, dass Vitamin C sie unbeschadet durch die Krise bringen wird, obwohl es wahrscheinlich noch nicht mal den letzten Schnupfen kuriert hat
Was hier typischerweise fehlt, ist eine Reflexion der medialen Vermittlung dieses Halb- bis Nichtwissens: es wird partout in etlichen (vermeintlichen) Nachrichtenmagazinen wiedergegeben, aufgefrischt und weiter verzerrt. Es gibt für diesen Effekt sicher einen gängigen Begriff, nur finde ich ihn momentan nicht. Daher nenne ich ihn bis auf weiteres Peter-Paul-Berg-Effekt.
Everything you hate about the Internet is actually everything you hate about people.
On a monstrous sentence.
This is how Éva died.
In May of that year, the group was joined by Éva Izsák, a 19-year-old Jewish antifascist activist. Lakatos, considering that there was a risk that she would be captured and forced to betray them, decided that her duty to the group was to commit suicide. Subsequently, a member of the group took her to Debrecen and gave her cyanide. – en.wikipedia.org
When the genius cult is at work murder – or at least instigation to commit murder – just becomes a byline of history. And certainly, Éva Izsák got no Wikipedia entry to tell us her story.
So here is a Memorial of Words for Éva written by her sister, Mária Zimán (via johnkadvany.com).
A man called Imre Liebschitz was the "brains" behind the group, who, by right of his alleged intellectual superiority and probably age, used psychological terror to rule over a rather large group of well-meaning young people who saw him as the embodiment of the Communist Party. What he said was always "right," therefore, they blindly believed whatever he said and obeyed his "orders," which he always presented to them as top-level instruction. Liebschitz's wife, Éva Révész, was the number two "ideologist," and this "Marxist couple" claimed a monopoly over life and death.
Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex.
Inside the Strange World of Coral Reef Crime Scenes.
People damaging coral reefs were finding it all too easy to weasel or buy their way out of convictions.
