Saturday, 15. February 12020
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Efficiency is important, but it is time to get serious about sufficiency.

According to Kris De Decker, just making things more efficient isn't enough; we have to change the way we live.

The future we want: bikes and trams.
The future we want: bikes and trams.

Basically, don’t use Google products. Tough love.

How to fight back against Google AMP.

Many people complain about seeing Google AMP links and sites. This is what you can do to fight back against Google AMP as a user and a % developer.

Relevant: How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance.

Critical Atlas of Internet.

Through a series of 15 hypotheses, this Critical Atlas of Internet aims to develop 15 conceptual spatialization exercises. The purpose of the atlas is to use spatial analysis as a key to understanding social, political and economic issues on Internet. The atlas seek to discern the shape of the Internet in order to understand the concrete issues and stakes involved.

The Rise And Fall Of Mobile.

Mobile platforms never really offered the same way to build complex interactions between components (sorry, “apps”) that earlier platforms did with languages like AppleScript, Rexx, and Bash. Designers told us our software should “do one thing well”, a catastrophic reduction in ambition from “making the simple things simple and the complex things possible”.

Lobsters is a computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion, launched on July 3rd, 2012.

Rules of Journalism.

The long-time host of PBS NewsHour Jim Lehrer died this week at the age of 85. In this age of news as entertainment and opinion as news, Lehrer seems like one of the last of a breed of journalist who took seriously the integrity of informing the American public about important events.

Nach diesen Standards arbeitet der SPIEGEL.

Im Jahr nach dem Relotius-Skandal haben wir unsere journalistischen Grundsätze neu formuliert. Lesen Sie hier das Ergebnis: die SPIEGEL-Standards.

One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age.

Digging through the Geocities Torrent.

Amazon Dating.

Hot Singles Near You starting at $4.99 with Prime delivery.

Ship the Airplane: The Cultural, Organizational and Technical Reasons Why Boeing Cannot Recover.

Devastating takedown of what went wrong at Boeing with the 737 Max – presented in straightforward terms non-engineers can understand.