How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request.

Washington DC has made GitHub the authoritative digital source for DC laws.

Relevant: Freier Zugang zu unseren Gesetzen.

The Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words.

Company Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview.

(…) on the one hand, sharing your work may lead to amazing collaborations with large companies that have the types of resources and expertise to get amazing, imagination-filled projects off the ground. However, you may also run the risk of having work being patented away.

Debunking never ends until time becomes a loop.

Verschwörungstheorien am Prüfstand.

The Pudding, A Journal of Visual Essays.

Solstice, the Kinetic Clock.

A clock that turns passing hours into moving art, it gradually changes shape throughout the day to inspire a more relaxed view of time.

The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante... and a murder.

Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless.

Infographic: Starship enterprises – charting the new space race.

epicenter.works for digital rights.

Die stetige Veränderung und Optimierung unserer Gesellschaft wirft mittlerweile die Machtfrage auf, inwieweit wir die Technik noch für unsere Zwecke nutzen oder ob wir durch die Technik nicht schon bestimmt werden.

With her dystopian Netflix series 1983, the director (Agnieszka Holland, ed.) has imagined a Poland in which communism never fell. But are these dark fantasies of creeping authoritarianism becoming reality?

(…) if freedom means we have to die for it, let’s choose slavery.