The Darkside of Data. #storyhopper

How to prevent the next global problem. Show the darkside. of data. In a video. the irony..

Relevant: The Globalized Jitters – Fighting for change in an anxious age.

StingRays: The smartphone surveillance boxes that cops and spies love.

Here’s what you need to know about the devices that until recently were so secret, they didn’t officially exist.

This Is What It Was Like Learning To Report Before Fake News Was The Biggest Problem In The World.

“If you had told me on that day that 16 years later Lukashenko would still be in power, I’d never have thought that possible — this was an anachronism (…) You couldn’t have this outlier island of repression, of backwardness. It had to be swept along by the forces of history.”

About the boys: Tim Winton on how toxic masculinity is shackling men to misogyny.

In an excerpt from a speech about his new book The Shepherd’s Hut, the author says it is men who need to step up and liberate boys from the race, the game, the fight.

That’s Bachelor of Science, right?

Design Thinking Is B.S.

In a recent talk at the School of Visual Arts, Pentagram partner Natasha Jen argues against the cult of design thinking.

I once bought a painting in Broome of a salt pond because of those beautiful colors.

The Startling Colors and Abstract Shapes of Salt Ponds.

Best Practices With CSS Grid Layout.

In some ways, we are all still so new to CSS Grid Layout. A lot of folks keep asking about best practices that are available out there. Rachel Andrew ran a survey and shares the results as well as her thoughts in this article.

Relevant: Fit For Purpose: Making Sense of the New CSS by Eric Meyer.

The Watchdogs That Didn’t Bark.

The digital crusaders who pushed back against America’s surveillance state are crucial to reining in Facebook. Why are they silent?

Brutalist design is the bad influence we all need.

The mainstream current of graphic work is becoming repetitively bland and a copy of everyone else's. Most designs are using the same typefaces, the same sets of colors, the same visual effects.