in:verse is a programming language and environment for exploring the conflux of poetry, visuals, mathematics and code.
The Lottery of Birth Place and Time.
Still, a key conclusion is that being born (…) in a prosperous place at a prosperous time is no guarantee of a wonderful future existence. Conversely, being born in desperate times does not consign one to a life of unending trials.
Not OK, zoomer.
Video conferencing company Zoom announced today its acquisition of encrypted messaging and file-sharing platform Keybase.
Relevant: keys.pub (via write.privacytools.io).
I shipped a word processor that formatted the hard drive every 1024 saves. t.co
— GeePaw Hill (@GeePawHill) May 1, 2020
Relevant: Helping Geeks Produce for Over 40 Years.
(…) founded by Jessica Oreck in 2008. We make projects large and small that hope to re-inspire a sense of wonder about the world of the everyday. Our features all focus on ethnobiology – the way that cultures interact with the natural world.
You say potatoe, I say Erdapfel.
Following a month-long journey through the Andes of Peru, this multimedia travelogue explores the cultural sinificance of papas nativas.
Still #TeamKathy.
Why the Trolls Will Always Win.
It begins with simple threats. You know, rape, dismemberment, the usual. It’s a good place to start, those threats, because you might simply vanish once those threats include your family. Mission accomplished. But today, many women online — you women who are far braver than I am — you stick around. And now, since you stuck around through the first wave of threats, you are now a much BIGGER problem. Because the Worst Possible Thing has happened: as a result of those attacks, you are NOW serving Victim-Flavored Koolaid.
Kathy Sierra is a bad-ass games developer and co-creator of the “Head First…” series of books. Right now she is teaching ponies to code.
This is why we cannot have nice things.
Socialgeiz.de (no link, sorry Geizhälse.)
100 Twitter Retweets for you: 1,99 EUR / Stück.
How Silicon Valley is not like Wall Street.
On Wall Street, everyone was not only okay with being the douchebag, they often troublingly wanted to be the douchebag. In Silicon Valley, no one yet seems to want to admit they're the new douchebags. And this more an observation than a value judgment. Power and money beget douchebags. It’s just the nature of the beast.
Florian Schneider – Stop Plastic Pollution.