Back to the Future: the Top Ten Vaporwave Albums of 2016.
With a surprise release from Blank Banshee and a Vektroid & Siddiq collaboration it’s been a wild year in vaporwave.
Some web history, some design inspiration.
This is so beautiful to read, especially on smaller computing devices. Feels almost like a Reclam: Resilient Web Design.
How People Learn to Become Resilient.
Perception is key to resilience: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as a chance to learn and grow?
RIP, trolling.
Schadenfreude with Bite: Trolling.
Syria
“It started as simple teenage rebellion but ended up tearing Syria apart, setting in motion events that continue to rock the Middle East — and the world. The boys behind the graffiti would become unlikely revolutionaries and reluctant refugees. Not all of them would survive the upheaval they helped unleash. This is their story.”
The Most Dangerous Place on Earth to Be an Environmentalist.
A COPINH activist was walking home from making school lunches when seven men with machetes attacked her. Her husband and 12-year-old ran to defend her, and they fractured her son’s skull and cut off half of his right ear.
Welcome to the age of anger.
(…) we cannot understand this crisis because our dominant intellectual concepts and categories seem unable to process an explosion of uncontrolled forces.
Feminism
»Bankenregulierung muss ein Thema sein.«
Katrine Marçal zeigt in ihrem Buch den größten Fehler der Ökonomie: den Ausschluss der Frauen.
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Eleanor Gordon-Smith, a writer/reporter in Australia who decides to confront her catcallers and figure why they do it.
It took 120 minutes of conversation with one man to get him to commit to not literally assaulting women.
In memoriam Laura Branigan.
The myth of self-control.
(…) trying to teach people to resist temptation either only has short-term gains or can be an outright failure.
It’s Like Reddit, Without the Trolls.
Imzy, started by two former Reddit employees, wants to be a kinder, gentler version of the controversial discussion site.