How journalists can responsibly report on manipulated pictures and video.
Editorial guidelines and codes of ethics rarely include information about these new challenges. Questions laid out in this guide can be used to spark discussions in newsrooms about best practices for reporting on this type of content.
So verblüfft war ich, dass ich mich nicht wehrte, als er anfing, mich mit meiner eigenen Zeitung zu erschlagen. Patsch, patsch, patsch. Das tat sehr weh, denn es dauerte sehr lange. Ich war ja viel größer als eine Wespe. Was bei einem kleinen Insekt sehr schnell ging, nähme bei mir voraussichtlich Monate in Anspruch. Patsch, patsch, patsch.
Relevant: The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Ineffecient Weapon.
For me the distinction between Net.Art and e.g. Cicada 2201 are subliminal.
A Love Letter to Net.Art.
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.
