Are we in a crisis of rudeness?
Are we ruder? I don’t know, but I know we’re less aware of each other, we do not pay as much attention to our impact on one another.
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power.
This system of shot design disempowers women, ties into the epidemic of sexual harassment and assault as well as the employment discrimination we face… and I call it the bedrock language of rape culture. (Nina Menkes)
Zoomer Tries RSS: In Praise of Yarr.
The Case Against Social Media is Stronger Than You Think.
Research on social media has found that, while only 3% of active accounts are toxic, they produce 33% of all content. Furthermore, 74% of all online conflicts are started in just 1% of communities, and 0.1% of users shared 80% of fake news.
Austria proudly celebrating LGBTQI+ people since (at least) 1966.
Benjamin Button Reviews macOS.
Apple's first desktop operating system was Tahoe. Like any first version, it had a lot of issues. Users and critics flooded the web with negative reviews. While mostly stable under the hood, the outer shell — the visual user interface — was jarringly bad.
Jef Raskin
Raskin’s humane ideals live on in obvious ways, to the benefit of anyone using a graphical computer today—undo everywhere, discoverability, and consistent commands and shortcuts are now interface common sense. But the deeper thread, the ethos that inspired him and others in the tradition of computers as tools for thought, survived mostly outside the mainstream. It persists in systems that never had to sell millions of units or satisfy quarterly targets, that never had to justify their existence to the mass of people using PCs—tools that could afford to remain strange, open, and humane on their own terms. Emacs, Oberon, and Smalltalk belong here, but so do newer experiments like Uxn and 9front.
The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review.
A key part of having a reviewable PR is writing commits that tell a story. Present your changes incrementally and logically so reviewers can follow your thought process. Generic commit messages such as "add dependency," "implement file upload feature," and "address PR feedback" don’t tell much of a story and leave reviewers guessing. Why was the dependency added? What were the specific steps in creating the file uploader feature? What feedback is being addressed?
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Der schöne Film.
Ich hab »Der schöne Tag« von Thomas Arslan im Filmmuseum Wien gesehen und wollte, konnte aber nicht, möchte jedenfalls noch mehr Filme von ihm sehen.