Wednesday, 19. July 12017
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Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals.

While we busy ourselves greening our personal lives, fossil fuel corporations are rendering these efforts irrelevant. The breakdown of carbon emissions since 1988? A hundred companies alone are responsible for an astonishing 71 percent. You tinker with those pens or that panel; they go on torching the planet.

Monday, 17. July 12017
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We need this, obviously.

A template for investor/founder sexual harassment policy.

The policy template below was created to facilitate the creation of comprehensive, enforceable investor/founder sexual harassment policies. It also seeks to lower the barrier so more people can courageously speak up against their harassers without fear of retaliation.

The Center for the Study of the Public Domain is proud to announce the publication of “Theft! A History of Music”, a graphic novel laying out a 2000-year long history of musical borrowing from Plato to rap.

Source: law.duke.edu

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Wikipedia Top 100 – The most-visited Wikipedia articles, updated daily.

Exciting news for Helma apps?

DoppioJVM – A Java Virtual Machine written in 100% JavaScript.

Friday, 14. July 12017
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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“.

Wednesday, 12. July 12017
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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.