Sunday, 19. November 12017
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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.

Relevant: The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked.

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.)

What kind of person makes false rape accusations?

(…) if a woman without any history of dramatic falsehoods says she went home with a man and, after they’d kissed a while consensually, he held her down and forced her into sex—in the absence of compelling evidence to the contrary, you can just assume it’s true.

Relevant: We Are All Implicated in the Post-Weinstein Reckoning.

Tuesday, 14. November 12017
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Re:scam – Meet the bot that stops scammers by wasting their time (via t3n.de).