Functors, applicatives and monads in pictures.
Is the ‘population bomb’ real?
The statistician Hans Rosling says ‘Don’t panic’.
“The problem here is not lack of knowledge; it’s preconceived ideas.”
Spelling your name in all-capital letters means the government can’t put you on trial?
Here comes pseudolaw, a weird little cousin of pseudoscience.
Not entirely correct, but nicely done.
You bet.
Is everybody a racist?
The information age traffics in speed. To adapt to it wisely, we must slow down.
“(…) rushing to answer questions about privacy and policymaking is exactly the wrong way for society to best adapt to the precipitous change of the times.”
The fight against food fraud.
From meat to spices, is anything we eat what we think it is?
“Most of the empirical research that says it is about peace is really about conflict. It’s about cleaning up afterwards.”
Richard Barbrook: Californian Ideology 20.2.
How to Think About Bots – a botifesto by Samuel Woolley, danah boyd, Meredith Broussard, Madeleine Elish, Lainna Fader, Tim Hwang, Alexis Lloyd, Gilad Lotan, Luis Daniel Palacios, Allison Parrish, Gilad Rosner, Saiph Savage, and Samantha Shorey.