Friday, 26. January 12024
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Elfriede Jelinek: Ich höre ein Ungeheuer atmen.

Sozialbetrug dann unmöglich, denn es wird nichts Soziales mehr geben.

American Oligarchy.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered an unprecedented crackdown by the United States and other Western nations on the mansions, megayachts, and bank accounts of Russia’s ultrawealthy tycoons. Yet targeting Russia’s oligarchs surfaced some uncomfortable questions about our own political and financial systems and the people who shape them. So we thought it was time for a good, long look in the mirror.

Source: motherjones.com

Twine – An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

You don’t need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.
Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes.

The Software Engineering at Google book (“SWE Book”) is not about programming, per se, but about the engineering practices utilized at Google to make their codebase sustainable and healthy.

Deep down, many engineers secretly wish to be seen as geniuses (…) But hold on: time for a reality check. You’re probably not a genius.

One day in your life you’re going to switch.

Free and Open Source Photo Libraries.

So rede ich nicht!

G. hat mir von diesem Cartoon erzählt, das war nochmal (nicht) lustiger.

Source: joscha.com
Sunday, 21. January 12024
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Open Spaces & Galleries im Volkskundemuseum.

In den Räumen der ehemaligen Dauerausstellung im Erdgeschoss richtet das Volkskundemuseum 2024 Open Spaces & Galleries für Akteur:innen ein, die an der Utopie einer postmigrantischen und diversen Gesellschaft arbeiten.

Relevant: Musik aus Strom.

How lovely, the world's smallest website is still online! 🥰

TypeScript

Relevant: Generic Types in the Closure Compiler.

Metafilter: 20+ years in, you think you know a site. (Via thehistoryoftheweb.com.)

Every few months, I get an email with the same huge PDF. It explains the concept of emotional labor, but the format itself is what’s interesting here. It’s weird: it’s grouped into themes, each with chunks of text attributed to “Eyebrows McGee”, “jokeefe”, “languagehat” and so on. The person who emailed it invariably says, “I have no idea what this actually is – seems like it’s from a bunch of forums? – but the content is really good.”

I never reply. But I’ve known since I was 11 who these people, this Eyebrows McGee and this languagehat, are.