Jan Svankmajer comes to mind, but don’t mind the category.
Sofia Carrillo, Animación Clásica & Dirección de Arte / Stop Motion Author-Animator and Art Director.
Frank Heart, Who Linked Computers Before the Internet, Dies at 89 (via hubski.com).
Mr. Heart’s team built the gateway device for the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet. Data networking was so new then, they made it up as they went.
“Switter: My six week rollercoaster ride.”
A year ago, a couple of friends and I formed Assembly Four, a collective of sex workers and technologists, where the goal was to empower sex workers with technology. The main project was a CRM designed for sex workers.
Check out Volt, a pan-European, progressive movement that stands for a new and inclusive way of doing politics and that wants to bring real change to all European citizens.
Nieder mit dem Monopol, es lebe das Monopol!
Die drei Jungunternehmer von DeinBus stießen mit Sekt auf diesen Tag an, das Fernsehen kam vorbei, sie trugen bunte T-Shirts und sangen „Nieder mit dem Monopol!“ Ein Jahr später drohte ihnen die Insolvenz. Auf dem Markt, den die drei BWL-Studenten liberalisiert hatten, tobte ein Preiskrieg, bei dem ein Unternehmen nach dem anderen auf der Strecke blieb. Nur Flixbus wuchs immer weiter.
The Recycling Game Is Rigged Against You.
Even if you put everything into the right blue bins, a lot of plastics will end up in landfills and the ocean. Consumers can't solve this problem.
Relevant: #breakfreefromplastic.
Wakamai Fondue – Drop a font and get all its gory details in return.
1995!
There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.
The tragedy of the commons is a term used in social science to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action.
Update: The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong.