The Snowden Legacy, part one: What’s changed, really?

Considering how our privacy issues have shifted in the past few years because of things like the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal and other corporate mishandling and misuse of personal data, maybe it's true that concerns about government surveillance have ultimately taken a back-burner in Americans' collective memory.

Is There Anybody Out There… Keeping Track of the Weird Stuff We Send Into Space?

A new catalogue attempts to figure out what we're telling the rest of the universe about ourselves.

Alte Gesetze: Paragrafen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Es gibt viele Gesetzesparagrafen, die älter sind als das Grundgesetz. Wie zeitgemäß sind sie noch? Ein Blick in das Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch, das aus der Kaiserzeit stammt.

In her short documentary Jonah Stands Up, the US director Hannah Engelson profiles her friend Jonah Bascle: a creative, defiant spirit and New Orleans native who is dealing with a terminal heart condition related to his muscular dystrophy.

How lies become truth in online America.

‘Nothing on this page is real’.

Beyond reason: the mathematical equation for unconditional love.

And who said that there is no romance in maths?

The (reverse-engineered) Tado API v2.

For the time me still using macos…

Hammerspoon is a desktop automation tool for OS X.

It bridges various system level APIs into a Lua scripting engine, allowing you to have powerful effects on your system by writing Lua scripts.

The ever so lovely Bézier curve.

“Smart City” von unten?

Wenn wir mit der “Smart City” konfrontiert werden, dann müssen wir unsere politischen Instrumente und auch unsere Verhandlungssprache neu erfinden. Eine Sprache, die den Diskurs über Urban Governance, der derzeit von einem Ingenieurjargon dominiert wird, politisieren würde.