Saturday, 14. October 12017
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Cosmic JS vs. WordPress.

Cosmic JS is an API-first CMS that helps teams of developers and content editors build apps faster.

Looks like a very cool tool for teaching the web.

Scrimba interactive coding screencasts.

The Frightful Five Want to Rule Entertainment. They Are Hitting Limits.

The companies I call the Frightful Five — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet, Google’s parent company — have experienced astounding growth over the last few years, making them the world’s five most valuable public companies. Because they own the technology that will dominate much of life for the foreseeable future, they are also gaining vast social and political power over much of the world beyond tech.

Relevant: After the end of the startup era.

Buch „Uncreative Writing“: Sprache als Rohmaterial.

Programmieren, recyclen, plagiieren: Kenneth Goldsmith fordert eine Poetik für das digitale Zeitalter im Zeichen von Copy-and-paste.

Is the era of humanitarian intervention over?

The Starling and Falcon Dance.

This article probably should mention Marx’ theory of “entfremdung”.

The Coming Software Apocalypse: A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.

Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream.

A cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals the truth about Steve Bannon’s alt-right “killing machine.”

Keepers of the Secrets.

These collections aren’t digitized. The only way to find out what’s inside them is to ask for a particular box — often with just a vague notion of what will be in it — and to hold the old papers in your hands. “I don’t know how one could be interested in libraries and not archives,” Lannon told me. They tell you “the stories behind things,” he said, “the unpublished, the hard to find, the true story.”

Did our cosmos emerge from a sea of inflating bubbles?

Maybe we don’t have to speculate about what life is like inside a bubble. It might be the only cosmic reality we know.