Social media companies would have you believe that they hold the keys to communication, networking, and content, and that as a content producer, writer, or just a person who wants to share a few things with some friends, you need to use them to thrive. But you don't... It's all a lie.
Sailing Seas of Plastic.
This map shows the global distribution of floating plastic in our oceans based on a recent study estimating a total mass of floating plastic debris of about 268,000 tonnes.
Hope this ain’t fake news.
Finland is winning the war on fake news. Other nations want the blueprint.
Touché.
Why We Watch Suffering Online, but Often Do Nothing to Help.
We don’t necessarily want to be good, ethically consistent people. We just want to be perceived as such.
Create complex, reactive, persistent web applications by just writing HTML & CSS, without a single line of JavaScript and no server backend. With Mavo.
Ostrenten und Altersarmut: Die Pech-gehabt-Frauen.
In der DDR geschiedene Frauen leiden unter fehlender Gleichstellung bei der Rente. Der Bundestag handelt nicht – nun hat die AfD das Thema entdeckt.
If anyone can see the morally unthinkable online, what then?
If the image you are looking at is disturbing, is it because it is explicit and unfamiliar to you, or is it because it is wrong? When are you looking at a problem, and when is the problem you?
Senior Developers are Getting Rejected for Jobs.
Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.
— Max Howell (@mxcl) June 10, 2015
Bindery.js is a library for designing printable books with HTML and CSS (via github.com).
At its simplest, Bindery flows content over multiple pages. From there, the designer can create running headers, spreads, footnotes, tables of contents, indexes, and more. Bindery also provides print options like bleed, crop marks, and booklet ordering.
About Dark Mountain.
Together, we are walking away from the stories that our societies like to tell themselves, the stories that prevent us seeing clearly the extent of the ecological, social and cultural unravelling that is now underway. We are making art that doesn’t take the centrality of humans for granted. We are tracing the deep cultural roots of the mess the world is in. And we are looking for other stories, ones that can help us make sense of a time of disruption and uncertainty.