“How I coined the term 'open source'”.
Christine Peterson finally publishes her account of the day "open source" software was coined, 20 years ago.
Relevant: Frauen regierten die Computerwelt – dann kam die »Macho-Clique«.
What is a Planck Keyboard?
If installing TeamViewer Host 9.x on OS X Snow Leopard causes an infinite loop (blue window, black window) on startup: there is hope.
The woman in the high castle.
“Svastika Night” by Katharine Burdekin, 1937.
“It is the seventh century of the Hitlerian Era. The Nazi Empire extends over the whole Europe and of Africa, and the Japanese Empire covers Asia and the Americas.”
Relevant: Life in hollow Earth.
Die Sozialwissenschaftlerin Naika Foroutan fordert ein radikales Umdenken beim Thema Integration: Die nächste Regierung müsse sich dringend um alle kümmern, die Gefahr laufen, abgehängt zu werden. Sonst drohe eine dramatische Spaltung der Gesellschaft.
The tech industry’s gender problem isn’t just hurting women.
So you’re too ethical to eat meat; but should cows go extinct?
If we think, as I do, that being cultural is itself an adaptation, a natural feature of human beings, then we shouldn’t think that the ways in which we are cultural exempt us from nature, or that the products of our culture are themselves unnatural.
No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore.
Fashion trends are accelerating, new clothes are becoming as cheap as used ones, and poor countries are turning their backs on the secondhand trade. Without significant changes in the way that clothes are made and marketed, this could add up to an environmental disaster in the making.
Fanwood. Based on work of a famous Czech-American type designer of yesteryear.
