Danah Boyd: Google and Facebook Can’t Just Make Fake News Disappear.
Fake news is too big and messy to solve with algorithms or editors — because the problem is….us.
Das Leben nach dem Ku-Klux-Klan.
Der frühere Chef des deutschen KKK war ganz anders, als ich erwartet hatte. Sanft. Wir telefonierten stundenlang. Viele seiner Antworten warfen neue Fragen auf. Am Schluss suchte ich auch in Unterlagen der NSU-Untersuchungsausschüsse und auf Seiten von Rechtsextremen nach Antworten. Das ist mein Versuch zu ergründen, wie man ein Leben im Ku-Klux-Klan wieder los wird.
Why men rape.
It’s not a profound mystery, or explained by deep psychosocial complexity. For rapists, rape is easy. And that must stop.
A survey by Pew Internet.
New research shows the internet is a swamp and the trolls have won.
Inside Twitter’s Obsessive Quest To Ditch The Egg.
An icon that came to represent Twitter’s dark side is giving way to one designed not to turn anyone off, without looking like something you’d want to stick with.
Evolution Is Slower Than It Looks and Faster Than You Think.
The git rerere functionality! (Via reddit.com.)
The name stands for "reuse recorded resolution" and as the name implies, it allows you to ask Git to remember how you've resolved a hunk conflict so that the next time it sees the same conflict, Git can automatically resolve it for you.
Streisand sets up a new server running L2TP/IPsec, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, a Tor bridge, and WireGuard.
It also generates custom instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists.
No one knows what to do with the International Space Station.