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.)
Two Centuries of US Immigration Vizualized.
Watch 200 years of U.S. immigration history in one animated map. Migration flows are visualized as colored dots, each one representing 10,000 people.
Polisis gives you a glimpse of what websites actually say in their privacy policies.