(…) im Habitus der Kramp-Karrenbauer erkennen sich Hunderttausende wieder, fühlen sich wohl und verstanden - die kleinen Sadisten des Alltags, die stets die Mehrheit und das Gewöhnliche im Rücken haben und deren Lust die Bestrafung von Abweichlern ist, sie sehen in dieses stets patzige, stets empörungswillige Bulldoggenantlitz wie in einen Spiegel; sie sehen die um exakt zehn Jahre veraltete Kleidung (die aber nie genuin unmodisch sein darf) und blicken damit in die eigene Garderobe; sie hören das stumpfe Gelaber wie ein helleres Echo ihrer Stammtischweisheit; sie sehen vor allem ihre eigene Kleinlichkeit und renitente Borniertheit, gewürdigt und in höchste Staatsämter getragen.
Only a fool would publish this article on Medium.
Strong Opinions Loosely Held Mght be the Worst Idea in Tech.
The idea of strong opinions, loosely held is that you can make bombastic statements, and everyone should implicitly assume that you’ll happily change your mind in a heartbeat if new data suggests you are wrong. It is supposed to lead to a collegial, competitive environment in which ideas get a vigorous defense, the best of them survive, and no-one gets their feelings hurt in the process.
The era of dark something.
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet.
Imagine a dark forest at night. It’s deathly quiet. Nothing moves. Nothing stirs. This could lead one to assume that the forest is devoid of life. But of course, it’s not. The dark forest is full of life. It’s quiet because night is when the predators come out. To survive, the animals stay silent. (…) This is also what the internet is becoming: a dark forest.
Welcome to the Junk News Aggregator! We track the distribution of "junk news" on Facebook.
Not sure it’s so much easier today, though…
What It Was Like To Build A World Wide Web Site In 1995.
Twenty years ago, the web gave everyday folks the power to publish. But by 2015 standards, it was anything but easy.
Nicht gerettet, geraubt habt ihr! (Via piqd.de.)
Die Gegenstände der Menschen, die zu uns kommen, wollen wir behalten – die Menschen selbst aber, die wollen wir nicht.
Sustainable Web Manifesto (via wholegraindigital.com).
If the Internet was a country, it would be the 6th largest polluter.
Philosophy should care about the filthy, excessive and unclean.
Political figures today (…) are committing the verbal equivalent of this public defecation. They are violating traditional, unwritten rules and boundaries that are used to guide public conduct by making outrageous statements that were once taboo.
Is reporting Tweets completely futile?
As what I consider the smallest contribution to making Twitter a less shitty place I sometimes report accounts when they mostly post insults, threats, racism, sexism, hatred and/or violence – in any combination.
Or so I thought. Because this is what you actually get when the Twitter Führerhauptquartier deems your report was justified:
While it says the account violates some of Twitter’s rules, it does not say anything what actually happened, happens or will happen to the account (or the up to five posts i reported).
And when I check the account, it is still there, the owner spewing even more insults, threats, racism, sexism, hatred and/or violence than before – in any combination.
Of course, now the owner even suggests something along the lines of making a list of the reporters so on day X their Neogestapo can sift through it for some reckoning.
Ain’t that great?
So I’m asking you, @jack: is this what is going to happen to my account, too, if I would suggest someone should rape you, torture your family, burn your house down and kill your pets?
Just asking for a fiend.
We’re committing Twitter to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation, and to hold ourselves publicly accountable towards progress.
— jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) March 1, 2018
What I Learned Trying To Secure Congressional Campaigns.
There are two foundational questions in campaign security: What do you say to a campaign if you get an hour of their attention? How do you get an hour of their attention?