Katapult Magazin für Kartografik und Sozialwissenschaft.
Meaningless Accelerating Scores Yield Better Performance.
(…) they found that participants who saw an arbitrary accelerating score exerted more effort, taking more steps on a step machine compared with those who saw a decelerating score or no score.
Gefährliches Schubladen-Denken: 12 Thesen zum aktuellen Populismus-Diskurs.
Das Geheimnis der Mitte ist der „Grundkonsens der Demokraten“, der im Ausschluss antagonistischer Alternativen aus dem Pluralismus des Normalspektrums besteht. Nur ein Beispiel: Kriege der Bundeswehr ohne Verteidigungssituation des nationalen Territoriums gehören zum Grundkonsens und damit zur normalen Mitte, obwohl sie bis zur Wiedervereinigung als grundgesetzwidrig betrachtet wurden und obwohl etwa zwei Drittel der Bevölkerung sie in Umfragen hartnäckig ablehnt. Dennoch ist diese Ablehnung im Formalismus des Spektrums als „linksextrem“ kodiert. Oder inzwischen eben als „linkspopulistisch“.
Beware of Vaporwave CGI and the sexophone.
Art Feynman: “The Shape You’re In”.
Nightlands: “Lost Moon”.
Both on Western Vinyl and via intro.de.
Factitious – a game that tests your news sense.
Climate Change Cartel.
Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says.
A relatively small number of fossil fuel producers and their investors could hold the key to tackling climate change.
Ad G20.
Gute Texte von Georg Diez, Fatma Aydemir und Sascha Lobo.
Update: Oh, fast vergessen: g20-doku.org
Day of Action for Net Neutrality
**On July 12, 2017, websites, Internet users, and online communities will come together to sound the alarm about the FCC’s attack on net neutrality. Learn how you can join the protest and spread the word at battleforthenet.com. **
Right now, new FCC Chairman and former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai has a plan to destroy net neutrality and give big cable companies immense control over what we see and do online. If they get their way, the FCC will give companies like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T control over what we can see and do on the Internet, with the power to slow down or block websites and charge apps and sites extra fees to reach an audience.
If we lose net neutrality, we could soon face an Internet where some of your favorite websites are forced into a slow lane online, while deep-pocketed companies who can afford expensive new “prioritization” fees have special fast lane access to Internet users – tilting the playing field in their favor.
But on July 12th, the Internet will come together to stop them. Websites, Internet users, and online communities will stand tall, and sound the alarm about the FCC’s attack on net neutrality.
The Battle for the Net campaign will provide tools for everyone to make it super easy for your friends, family, followers to take action. From the SOPA blackout to the Internet Slowdown, we've shown time and time again that when the Internet comes together, we can stop censorship and corruption. Now, we have to do it again!
Learn more and join the action here: battleforthenet.com
Wikipedia: The Text Adventure (via t3n.de).
A playable text adventure version of Wikipedia. Start anywhere that has a Wikipedia article, and explore the world a step at a time.
How Long Does it Take to (Quick) Draw a Dog?
An exploration of drawing time in Google's Quickdraw dataset.