No one asked for communication at this scale!
No reasonable human needs more than 10,000 other humans to read their words within twenty minutes of writing them.
FTFY: Best Year in Mainstream US Music.
A journey through every Billboard top 5 hit to find music’s greatest era.
Verbotene Lautstärke von Motorrädern: „Da halten Sie sich die Ohren zu“.
Die Untersuchung des Umweltbundesamtes bestätigt das Ergebnis von Tests anderer Institutionen, dass manche Motorräder und Fahrzeuge lauter sind als der Grenzwert, wenn sie etwas anders gefahren werden als im amtlichen Zulassungstest. Neu ist, wie hoch die Abweichungen sind. Die kompletten Testergebnisse will das Umweltbundesamt offiziell Ende des Jahres veröffentlichen.
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.