Wednesday, 14. August 12024
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Val Plumwood.

In "Human vulnerability and the experience of being prey" (1995), Plumwood describes how she survived an attack by a saltwater crocodile on 19 February 1985, and the radical change this experience brought about in her view of the world, from what she called the "individual justice universe", where humans are always the predators, to the "Heraclitean universe", where we are just another part of the food chain.

The Elegance of the ASCII Table.

(…) the choices made in deciding what streams of ones and zeroes would represent which characters expose a refined logic. It’s aesthetically pleasing, and littered with historical artefacts that teach us a hidden history of computing.

Friday, 9. August 12024
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Hasskommentare richtig melden – eine Anleitung.

Wer Verhetzung, Bedrohung, Beleidigung bei Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X melden will, sollte aufpassen: Die Melde-Formulare der Plattformen sind kompliziert. Hier eine Übersicht, wie man strafbare Hasskommentare geschickt melden kann.

Ich bewunder Ingrid Brodnig für Ihren unermüdlichen Einsatz für ein rücksichtsvolles Web.

JSBench – Performance Benchmarking Playground for JavaScript.

Where is the Riviera of the Anthropocene?

Climate Zones.

Explore how will your city feel in the future.

Source: pudding.cool

This will break my layout.

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It broke GitHub, too, go figure. Antville needs some fresh CSS love, though.

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The Many Lives of Null Island.

Null Island is not just a silly place to think about when cartographers are bored, it is a phenomenon that repeatedly and annoyingly asserts itself in the middle of day-to-day cartographic work, often when you least expect it.

Pentiment (video game).

The player takes control of Andreas Maler, a journeyman artist from Nuremberg who becomes embroiled in a series of murder mysteries in Upper Bavaria.[3] The story is set in the fictional Alpine town of Tassing and the nearby Benedictine Kiersau Abbey during the 16th century, and takes place over the course of 25 years.

Relevant: Josh Sawyer.

The Historical Case for Fair Source.

Fair Source is software that is safe for companies to share and developers to use. We need it because, historically, Open Source has been an ambiguous term, applied to both community and commercial projects. By introducing a new term for commercial projects, Fair Source, we can set better expectations with developers, reduce pressure to change the Open Source Definition, and free up more companies to share their core software products.