The scariest thing about Brussels is our reaction to it.
“In his admirable manual, Terrorism: How to Respond, the Belfast academic Richard English defines the threat to democracy as not the ‘limited danger’ of death and destruction. It is the danger ‘of provoking ill-judged, extravagant and counterproductive state responses’.”
“At a deeper level, we have not reckoned with the fact that technology can make public things that were private in the past. The most common way this happens is because social networks like Facebook change their privacy controls unilaterally over time, making information that used to be private suddenly become public.”
Azer Koçulu, Kik and npm cont’d.
There is no “my” in open source.
And another update: Is left-pad Indicative of a Fragile JavaScript Ecosystem?
A portrait session with a twist.
Beware of your expectations, they might come true.
An AI Written Novel Has Passed Literary Prize Screening.
Out of 1450 entries, 11 were written by non-humans.
“Entitled, lazy, narcissistic and addicted to social media…”
What Happens When Millennials Run the Workplace?
Sally Ride, first American woman in space, interviewed by Gloria Steinem in 1983.
“Really, the only bad moments in our training involved the press (…) everybody wanted to know about what kind of make-up I was taking up.”
I like your complex humanity!
Why do people struggle so much when receiving compliments?
Why do police have such out-of-date psychological theories?
“Research has demonstrated that none of these statements is true, yet we found that, in our questionnaire of 50 true or false items just like this, our sample of police officers scored no better than the general public. Police officers got 39 per cent wrong and members of the public got 37 per cent wrong. The police seemed to know as little about these important policing issues as everybody else.”
