Verbale Aggression: das Spektrum der Funktionen.
Although verbal aggression plays an important role in people’s lives, this subject has been tabood for a long time in both public and in scientific terms. However, an interest in this topic has increased in recent years, especially from the perspective of language as a means of violence.
It is not just a bunch of flowers.
(…) supporting Extinction Rebellion in a spirit of cooperation and friendship over the first week of its protests has, at times, been extraordinarily difficult — particularly due to its invariably tin-eared insensibility about the nature of policing and the state.
Kivu Insights about ransomware, cybersecurity and data breaches.
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Mirrors.
Mirrors are sparkly and shiny and hypnotic. They’ve fascinated us for thousands of years. And they might show us a lot more about our society’s misplaced priorities than we care to see.
Where We Go From Here: 10 Thoughts on the Immediate Future of the Web.
It’s high time problematic characters like Stallman are removed from their positions of power in the open source community because their influence has been detrimental to the participation in these communities for many marginalized groups. Moreover, it opens the door to a deeper conversation about the core ethos of open source ideology and whether the radical understandings of terms like “freedom” by a group of entitled white men is a sound foundation to build equitable and inclusive communities moving forward.
How a chimpanzee named Clint trained a psychologist to question human exceptionalism and reconsider the intelligence of apes.
The grape was out of his reach, and he pointed to it, making loud raspberry sounds (like a Bronx cheer), looking back-and-forth between me and the fruit. Now, you don’t need a PhD in experimental psychology to be able to interpret this signalling behaviour, right? However, without significant indoctrination into late 20th-century intellectual fashions you might not realise that Clint’s pointing was, at the time, theoretically impossible.
“The World-Wide Work” is a talk on automation, power, justice, and labor in the tech industry.
We don’t talk nearly enough about power in design.
Apple’s Tencent privacy controversy is more complicated than it looks.
The company began storing some iCloud encryption keys in China last year, despite fears that this might make them vulnerable to government seizure. More recently, it removed a mapping app that helped Hong Kong residents avoid police checkpoints amid a crackdown on pro-democracy protests. It also hid the Taiwanese flag emoji for iOS users in Hong Kong or Macau, and allegedly banned the Quartz news app from its Chinese App Store over the outlet’s Hong Kong protest coverage.
Zero carbon business isn't possible, but could Carbon Synching be the answer?
The science on climate change makes it clear that we need to rapidly reduce our global carbon emissions to zero. However, even a small business like ours demonstrates that zero carbon in a literal sense is not possible because all businesses are dependent on external factors out of their control.