Oh, Lacy & Carr sold Pando… Thank you for what you did there.
There are so many things that Pando did well beyond calling out Uber. Not only did Mark Ames blow the lid off the Silicon Valley wage collusion suit, our reporting was cited as evidence in the case that got animation workers their record-breaking settlement. (…) Hamish wrote one of the first investigations into how political machinations was tearing Silicon Valley billionaires apart back in 2013. (…) Then there was James Robinson’s expose of fraudulent health devices on Indiegogo, Yasha Levine on Surveillance Valley (which later became an amazing book of the same name), and David Sirota’s killer investigation into Chatham Asset Management and Chris Christie (…)
„a schprach is a dialekt mit an armej un flot.“ – Max Weinreich
The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing.
A delightfully dark vintage alphabet book from mid-century illustrator Edward Gorey, the Tim Burton of his day.
Reminds me a wee bit of The Lycette Bros’ “The Illustrated Alphabet of Unfortunate Chance” which I cannot find on the Intarwebs right now (an unfortunate chance, indeed).
Dr. Ray Şahin aka Lady Bitch Ray.
Das aus muslimischen Gründen getragene Kopftuch ist im ursprünglichen Sinne patriarchalisch, kann aber bei Emanzipationsabsichten Stück für Stück verändert und reformiert werden.
Der Hochschulbetrieb in Deutschland ist ein strukturell hochgradig konservativer, patriarchalischer, weiß-männlich dominierter Bereich, das Brutnest des Mansplainings und Manspreadings sozusagen.
Okay, but why cars and not bikes?
Scientists have trained rats to drive tiny cars to collect food (via futurism.com).
The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us.
Evolution is a terrible metaphor for technology.
Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On.
“I benefited from the generosity of men who tolerated and, in effect, enabled unethical, immoral, and criminal men.”
Relevant: Invisible Women – Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men.
State investment is everywhere.
The development of Google’s search algorithm, for instance, had been supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, a US public grant-awarding body. Electric car company Tesla initially struggled to secure investment until it received a $465 million (£380 million) loan from the US Department of Energy. In fact, three companies founded by Elon Musk — Tesla, SolarCity and SpaceX — had jointly benefited from nearly $4.9 billion (£3.9bn) in public support of various kinds.
A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In More Than 100 Published Studies.
The glitch caused results of a common chemistry computation to vary depending on the operating system used, causing discrepancies among Mac, Windows, and Linux systems
BBC Sound Effects (via openculture.com).
These 16,000 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license.