Saturday, 22. June 12019
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Multiverse.

Warning: this film features rapidly flashing images that can be distressing to photosensitive viewers.

Echoes of Kure Tomofusa’s thought in the NRx movement.

This is what appears to me as an incoherent (and thus, failed) essay about Neoreaction and Accelerationism represented by figures like Mencius Moldbug and Nick Land.

If those names don’t mean anything to you: welcome to the club! They hardly become recognizable after reading the article – which they should IMHO.

Maybe the essay is just not well written, maybe it’s not for everyone. Or maybe it just fancies itself too much?

Still, I keep it for its pointers to the entities mentioned above, for the record here.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

There is a large disconnect between what gets covered in the media and the day-to-day reality for most. How do causes of death in the US match with media coverage and what people search for online?

Source: owid.cloud

A radical legal ideology nurtured our era of economic inequality.

(…) economic coordination is increasingly accomplished through the mechanism of large, powerful firms, while economic cooperation among smaller players is increasingly disfavoured.

Detect unexpected layout shifts in JavaScript.

The Layout Instability API.

#ShowYourStripes

These ‘warming stripe’ graphics are visual representations of the change in temperature as measured in each country over the past 100+ years. Each stripe represents the temperature in that country averaged over a year. For most countries, the stripes start in the year 1901 and finish in 2018. For the UK, USA, Switzerland & Germany, the data starts in the late 19th century.

Warming Stripes for Vienna, Europe, Austria
Warming Stripes for Vienna, Europe, Austria

Can you trust Glitch?

Can You Trust A Company In 2019?

“Design Is Not an Intellectual Exercise”.

Fascism in guises large and small requires signage and advertising (…) It requires vivid design and the architecture of enmity. History assures us that many, many people get swept up in the flood of its seduction (…) Will you be one of those who refuse to participate? Even when you know that there will be no medals for your refusal? Even when you’re assured that your refusal will only earn you mockery, poverty, or worse?

China’s Bioluminescent Blue Tears Are Beautiful and Associated With Toxic Blooms.

(…) red N. scintillans is associated with red tides, blooms of algae and other microorganisms that can sap water of its oxygen and produce conditions toxic to other forms of marine life.

HAR Resources.

A community curated list of resources, tools, projects and applications that support HTTP Archive (HAR).