What the idea of civilisational ‘collapse’ says about history.
The fall, like the rise of a civilisation is a highly complex operation which can only be distorted by oversimplification. It may be taken as axiomatic that there was no one cause of cultural collapse.
Move Slowly and Fix Things.
You might have optimistically deluded yourself into believing it’s always helpful because you’re a nice person, and design is a noble-seeming endeavor, and you have good intentions.
But let’s be brutally honest for a minute.
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Victories are a three piece groove-rock band from Essex.
Anleitung: Fake Tweets entlarven.
Der Datenjournalist Henk van Ess gibt im folgenden Video-Toolkit zehn Tipps, wie er dubiose Tweets entlarvt.
Privacy Tools for encryption against global mass surveillance.
You are being watched! Knowledge, encryption and privacy tools to protect you against global mass surveillance.
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Bibi, Tina, der Führer und wir.
Selbst in den Filmen von »Bibi und Tina« kommen noch Diener vor, wird einer von supermodernen Kids als »Herr Graf« angesprochen: in einer zwar menschlichen, aber keineswegs sozialen Übersprungsaktion zwischen oben und unten, ganz so wie in Ufa-Komödien stets die Herrschaften-Dienstboten-Organisation in die Konstruktion der Welt hereingeholt wurde. Zum Ufa-Stil, alt wie neu, gehört es, dass man sich, bei allen aktuellen Zurüstungen, in einer Gesellschaftsform befindet, die es nicht mehr gibt.
With Smog Meringues, You Can Taste Your City's Air Pollution.
Bail Bloc: a desktop app that gets people out of jail.
When you download the app, a small part of your computer's unused processing power is redirected toward mining a popular cryptocurrency called Monero, which is secure, private, and untraceable. At the end of every month, we exchange the Monero for US dollars and donate the earnings to the Bronx Freedom Fund.
CompuServe’s forums, which still exist, are finally shutting down.
Botometer checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot. (Via boingboing.net.)