After the Fall – 10 years later, the credit crunch revisited.

For the people inside the system that caused a decade of misery, no change. For everyone else, a decade of misery, magnified by austerity policies.

Trial runs for fascism are in full flow.

Fascism doesn’t arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes. They get people used to something they may initially recoil from; and they allow you to refine and calibrate. This is what is happening now and we would be fools not to see it.

ICANN't get no respect: Europe throws Whois privacy plan in the trash.

Clueless DNS overseer sees lazy efforts torn apart – again

The European Parliament asks its citizens about changes to the current summertime arrangements (switch to daylight saving time)…

…and I tried to reply: first three days the server was inaccessible. Finally, when I got through, filled the form and tried to submit it the site decided my mobile browser had no internet connection (which it had of course).

Today, I was able to post my reply from a desktop browser.

Not exactly increasing trust in the digital competence of the EU. (True, there are graver issues right now.)

Relevant: Dauerhaft die Sommerzeit einführen – mehr Tageslicht auch im Winter!

Die Wahrheit: Der Dressierten Zähmung.

Die lustige Tierwelt und ihre ernste Erforschung (56): Die Geschichte der Unterwerfung von Tieren durch menschliche Alphatiere.

A quine is a non-empty computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output.

The Messy Fourth Estate.

At the end of the day, if journalistic ethics means anything, newsrooms cannot justify creating spectacle out of their reporting on suicide or other topics just because they feel pressure to create clicks. They have the privilege of choosing what to amplify, and they should focus on what is beneficial. If they can’t operate by those values, they don’t deserve our trust.

Der Film Glossary of Broken Dreams oder: Im Schlachthaus Zum Goldenen Kalb.

Die liberale Demokratie ist das Gesicht des Kapitals, wenn es keine Angst hat. Der Faschismus ist das Gesicht des Kapitals, wenn es Angst hat.

Konkret zumindest in puncto was es alles nicht gibt.

Bildung in der digitalen Zukunft: Jetzt wird’s ganz konkret! (via piqd.de.)