“Hi, I’m Christine and I started contributing to Debian when I was 15. Now I’m the CTO of Nylas, ask me anything!”

The Dark Side of Nice.

(…) emphasis on niceness as innocence has always helped to paper over the obvious disconnects between American actions — typically violent and exploitative — and explain them away under the cover of amiability and naïveté.

The Heart-Racing Drama of Dissecting a Beached Whale.

While on the job, the anatomist Dr. Joy Reidenberg has been escorted by police and scrutinized by nude sunbathers.

Computer science faces an ethics crisis. The Cambridge Analytica scandal proves it.

(…) the field of computer science, unlike other sciences, has not yet faced serious negative consequences for the work its practitioners do.

Poster: „Auf den Spuren der Suche – die Geschichte der Suchmaschinen“.

Es beschreibt die Geschichte der Suchmaschinen auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen, von technischen bis hin zu gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen. Der Fokus der Darstellung ist international; besonders berücksichtigt wird aber die Entwicklung in Deutschland.

OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong.

“I have to some degree underestimated the difference between shaking the hand of a head of state and having a check written.”

I heard some university just started selling alcohol on campus…

It’s time to rethink how much booze may be too much.

Researchers are changing how they study the risks of alcohol — and it’s making drinking look worse.

Season 2? Meh.

“I went to Westworld but I couldn’t kill anyone.”

A pop-up experience at SXSW simulated the HBO show’s fictional playground — with one crucial difference.