As usual I am late to the party but nevertheless I found a new and old musical home with Vaporwave.

Relevant: How Tumblr and MTV Killed the Neon Anti-Corporate Aesthetic of Vaporwave.

The good news is we may have time to stop it.

Stop the Government’s Tattoo Recognition Experiments.

“Government researchers and the FBI are trying to crack the codes in our tattoos. They’re developing tattoo recognition technology with the aim of using our ink to reveal who we are, what we believe, and who we’re connected to. These experiments exploit prisoners without proper oversight and with little regard for privacy, civil liberties, or human dignity.”

Taking children to an aquarium is a lesson in cruelty.

“By taking children to these places, we are communicating to them indirectly that it is acceptable to confine non-human animals to small tanks that dramatically restrict their movement, and derive pleasure from gawking at them.”

“How I discovered I spend 2 hours a month crying — and learned to be okay with it.”

Think Jupyter for JavaScript.

Kajero: interactive JavaScript notebooks with clever graphs.

“The Day we hired a Blind Coder.”

Brown paperbag.

“(…) an uneducated, self-taught woman could never have built such a sophisticated machine.”

Why is scientific sexism so intractably resistant to reform?

Jessica Abel’s story is all about investigating story.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting-place from which to understand it. —Soren Kierkegaard