All Hail First-Wave Indie Web.

Boing Boing is 20 years old.

How to Identify Wildflowers Without Bothering to Get Off the Highway.

A Field Guide to Roadside Wildfloweres At Full Speed (PDF; via atlasobscura.com.)

In ‘My War Criminal,’ the Bad Guy Controls the Conversation.

What happens when an author tries so strenuously to empathize with her subject that she loses control of her own book?

„Alt-Right“ und neue Medien: Zur Normalisierung rechts­po­pu­lis­ti­scher Propa­ganda.

Die „alternative” Rechte in den USA entstand aus der Distanzierung von den „traditionellen“ Neo-Konservativen. Ihren Aufstieg und ihre Normalisierung verdankt die „Alt-Right“ einem aggressiven Antifeminismus, wuchernden Verschwörungstheorien und unverhülltem Rassismus – und, neben Fox News, der strukturellen Logik der neuen Medien.

Relevant: „Die Zeit“ öffnet das Overton-Fenster.

Das Simpsonparadoxon und die Raucherinnen.

The First Soviet Animated Movie Ever (1924).

Dziga Vertov is best known for his dazzling city symphony A Man with a Movie Camera, which was ranked by Sight and Sound magazine as the 8th best movie ever made. Yet what you might not know is that Vertov also made the Soviet Union’s first ever animated movie, Soviet Toys.

Which Tech Company Is Really the Most Evil?

The 30 most dangerous corporations in the industry, ranked by the people who know.

Looks like Antville needs some TLC regarding “new” HTML tags…
Update: I ❤️ Antville.

Mamihlapinatapai.

Eunoia – Words That Don't Translate.

The Symbiotic, Parasitic Relationship Between Privacy, Security.

It has long been the case that good security is essential for good privacy. However, a not-so-recent trend illustrates that, from a technical, legal and compliance standpoint, the tools, techniques and technologies that we use for security are, in both the short and long run, ultimately destructive of meaningful privacy. Unless we do something smart soon, we will lose both privacy and security.

The Long History of Algorithmic Fairness.

Fair algorithms from the seventeenth century to the present.