The Psychology Behind Unethical Behavior.

Many leaders have faced a choice between getting the reward or doing the right thing. The slippery slope starts right when you begin to rationalize actions and tell yourself and others, “This is an exceptional situation,” or “We have to bend the rules a little to get things done here,” or “We are here to make money, not to do charity.”

Privacy is a collective concern.

I might, for instance, be extremely careful with my phone number and physical address. But if you have me as a contact in your mobile phone and then give access to companies to that phone, my privacy will be at risk regardless of the precautions I have taken.

The Many Lives of Demogorgon, From Scribal Error to 'Stranger Things'.

Thüringen: Wir toleranten Trottel.

In Thüringen wurde also die radikalste Hetzvariante einer rechtsextremen Organisation explizit mit Volksparteiwerten belohnt. So, wie bereits in Brandenburg und Sachsen. Aber regieren darf sie vorerst nicht. Man könnte ein wenig aufatmen, zumindest Luft holen. Wenn der bisherige Fraktionsvize der CDU in Thüringen, Michael Heym, nicht plötzlich Gesprächsbereitschaft mit den Faschisten angedeutet hätte. Daher mein Appell, mit miserablem Ruhepuls: Bei all den Debatten um die Mitte Deutschlands nicht zu vergessen, dass die, die am wenigsten Einfluss auf diese Auseinandersetzung haben, mitten im Sturm stehen.

“50 years ago, I helped invent the internet. How did it go so wrong?”

The balkanization of the internet is now conceivable as firewalls spring up around national networks.

Actually, this short opinion article boils down to this quote which I think is probably the biggest cha(lle)nge for the years to come.

Unearthed photos reveal what happened to those who dared to flee through the Berlin Wall.

One sequence in these never-before-seen images shows the arrest of a West German couple and the East German family – a couple and their young child – they were trying to smuggle out in the boot of their car on 3 September 1988. While this arrest was all-too-real, the photographs were in fact staged after the event: the East German guards forced all five people to reenact their attempted escape for training purposes. Working from these photos, the film dramatises the scene from the perspective of the East German mother – one of the estimated 2,000 parents deemed ‘unreliable’ by the GDR whose children were given to politically loyal families.

Queer Criticalities, Instagram, and the Ethics of Museum Display.

In the exchanges between past and present, knowledge and narratives, re-imagined aesthetic relationships and rendered environments, there seems to be missing a queer criticality of the digital repertoire.

My name is Peter, I’m a drummer in a band, and I’m old.

Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users.

A significant part of the Internet-using population is aged 50 or older — including the people who invented it. Designers need to understand what older users need and why it’s not enough to just say, "I can read it, so what’s the problem?"

Leugnen, Twittern, Panik schieben? Klimadebatten im Netz sind vielschichtiger als ihr Ruf.

„Cloud“ ist eine irreführende Metapher, es klingt nach kurzlebig, transparent, leicht und endlos – obwohl es eine gewaltige Infrastruktur mit einem enormen CO2-Fußabdruck ist.

Relevant: contropedia.net – Analysis and visualization of controversies within Wikipedia articles.

What Is A Bezoar?