Private gain must no longer be allowed to elbow out the public good.
Our real problem, instead, might be called ‘the tragedy of the private’. From dust bowls in the 1930s to the escalating climate crisis today, from online misinformation to a failing public health infrastructure, it is the insatiable private that often despoils the common goods necessary for our collective survival and prosperity. Who, in this system based on the private, holds accountable the fossil fuel industry for pushing us to the brink of extinction? What happens to the land and mountaintops and oceans forever ravaged by violent extraction for private gain? What will we do when private wealth has finally destroyed our democracy?
Headings and the Seinfeld Pitch.
Oh, and also anyone using assistive technology (AT) would have a hard time. I mention them last because I want to stress that, in fact, all of these things rely on the same stuff. It's not just "people using screen readers" who need this. You too, effectively use (and will increasingly use) a kind of AT.
I am not sure I understand the whole article or its intention, resp. Partly, because I am not following the inner workings of the W3C and HTML standard formation, partly, because I consider the writing’s wittiness gets into expressiveness’ way.
Bright nights, lonely crowds – a Tokyo train speeds through urban contradictions.
From Bifrost to Panfrost – deep dive into the first render.
Hello, World! I’m Alyssa Rosenzweig, a free software graphics hacker leading Panfrost, the free software stack for modern Mali GPUs.
Relevant: The Wikipedia entry on Women in Computing is still a joke (looking at the entries past the 1990s).
We’ve come a long way from the four nodes of ARPANet, which were managed by a government project and created in part with an eye to national security and American Department of Defense interests.
Now, data centers are private affairs, and if you don’t have a Google lanyard and your biometrics aren’t in the Facebook system, you can’t get in.
Just as social companies are black boxes for algorithms, their infrastructure is a black box for sovereign states, too. (Unless they’re peeking in through the backdoor.)
How dystopian narratives can incite real-world radicalism.
Compared with the no-media control group, subjects exposed to the fiction were 8 percentage points more likely to say that radical acts such as violent protest and armed rebellion could be justifiable. They also agreed more readily that violence is sometimes necessary to achieve justice (a similar increase of about 8 percentage points).
1998 called. It wants its GUI back.
A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs.
Inklusion: Warum die Maskenpflicht zum Problem für Hörbehinderte wird.
Inklusion ist ein ständiger Kampf. In anderen Ländern ist es etwa längst weit verbreitet, dass Pressekonferenzen oder politische Interviews von Gebärdendolmetschern übersetzt werden. Hier hat es mal wieder etwas gedauert, bis daran gedacht wurde, dass auch Hörgeschädigte die Informationen mitbekommen sollten.
Relevant: Oregon high school student is making clear face masks so the hearing-impaired can be safe during coronavirus crisis.
Update: Österreichische Firma Kerkoc stellt Masken mit Gesichtsfenster für Gehörlose her (via reddit.com).
The Outline, an attempt to build a bolder kind of news site, appears to have met its end.
That’s a wee bit sad, I really liked to read through their issues.
Jeremy Keith: 'We've ruined the Web. Here's how we fix it.'
There have been studies to show that the experience of waiting for a slow website to load when you need to get that information is comparable to watching a horror movie in terms of how your body is reacting to the stress of the situation.
Relevant: The Cost of Javascript Frameworks.