Why is psychedelic culture dominated by privileged white men?

The freedom to explore psychedelics has always been conditional on underlying freedoms – time, money, personal space and freedom from persecution, legal or otherwise – that have never been equally distributed across gender and ethnicity, and still retain their bias towards white, college-educated men.

There is not much left of Gelatin’s giant pink stuffed bunny on Colletto Fava mountain…

…and I hardly could believe it’s been almost 15 years!

Nor, that I did not make the visit </sad-🐰>.

Regulation through “bricking”: private ordering in the “Internet of Things”

The article argues that companies are employing bricking within a system of private ordering that is reshaping the governance of physical objects, as companies can arbitrarily and remotely affect the functionality of any software-enabled device and even determine product’s lifespan.

The relevance of culture in the age of AI.

Besides living in the age of AI, we are also living with the outlook to an age of a realistic existential crisis for humankind and nature.

Konservatismus ist die Kanonisierung der Häresie im Namen der Tradition.

(Via Quintin Hogg via Andreas Rödder via taz.)

Relevant: thebulwark.com.

Learning about identity topics, one comic at a time.

Everyday Feminism Comics.

What If We Treated All Consent Like Society Treats Sexual Consent?

“I was a fast-food worker. Let me tell you about burnout.”

The thing I found the most stressful at my three jobs was the small percentage of customers who will, for whatever reason, just scream stuff you wouldn’t believe at you.

Programming and Programming Languages.

Many people would regard this as being two books in one. One book is an introduction to programming, teaching you basic concepts of organizing data and the programs that operate over them, ending in the investigation of universally useful algorithms. The other book is an introduction to programming languages: a study, from one level up, of the media by which we structure these data and programs.

The face of climate hell.

Bald auch durch Deutschland?

Pothole Rodeo – eine Abenteuerrallye quer durch den Balkan.

…auf der Suche nach den letzten Schlaglöchern Europas.