Artificial Intelligence und Autokraten: Politische Handlungsfähigkeit in Zeiten von Ambient Revolts.
(…) wir leben in eigentümlichen Zeiten, in denen wir unsere Handlungsfähigkeit delegieren, ohne die Entscheidungsmuster dahinter zu kennen oder zu erkennen. Das gilt gleichermaßen für die Bereitschaft algorithmische Entscheidungssysteme tief in unsere Leben wirken zu lassen, als auch die politische Führung an Personen abzugeben, deren konstitutive Eigenschaft autoritäre Willkür ist.
Your Facebook friends don’t mean it, but they’re likely hurting you daily.
(…) messages can be interpreted in a way that people feel left out. And that feeling, as innocuous as it might seem, is not easily dismissed.
Ein Berliner Label hat seine Kooperation mit der Red Bull Music Academy wegen Aussagen des CEOs beendet. Andere sollten dem Beispiel folgen.
Engineers are fixing Silicon Valley.
Relevant: The Copenhagen Letter.
Vacuum decay: the ultimate catastrophe.
Every once in a while, physicists come up with a new way to destroy the Universe. There’s the Big Rip (a rending of spacetime), the Heat Death (expansion to a cold and empty Universe), and the Big Crunch (the reversal of cosmic expansion). My favourite, though, has always been vacuum decay. It’s a quick, clean and efficient way of wiping out the Universe.
Werner's Nomenclature of Colours.
A recreation of the original 1821 color guidebook with new cross references, photographic examples, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux.
A Guide for Employees: How To Make Your Tech Company Sustainable.
The Internet’s keepers?
Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive.
“Some call us hoarders—I like to say we’re archivists.”
From the Topic “Fear Itself” issue: Phobias for the 21st Century.
What does it say about us that the most modern fears are about our phones?