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Given how little effect you can have, is it rational to vote?

Voting is a duty of common pursuit. There is nothing more rational than acting individually to achieve collective benefits.

microG : Android (almost) without Google – our interview with the developer.

silentworks.info (via berlinergazette.de).

What is the hidden human labor in AI-driven Capitalism?

Warum weiße Menschen so gerne gleich sind.

Rassismus ignorieren zu können, ist ein weißes Privileg

Via thefuture.substack.com.

99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route! #googlemapshacks t.co pic.twitter.com/6KcMm1XgAF

— Simon Weckert (@simon_deliver) February 1, 2020

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.