Boing Boing: “The PUA world applies algorithms, testing and feedback, and gamification to human interaction, turning women into not just sexual objects but essentially treating that cisgendered biological configuration as a Turing-complete machine in which specifying the right sequence of inputs results in access to specific ports and protocols.”

Bad news for fans of anonymizing Tor networks, PGP and other encryption services: “If you're attempting to avoid the National Security Agency's digital dragnet, you may be making yourself a target, as well as legally allowing the agency to retain your communications indefinitely—and even use them to test the latest code-breaking tools.”

So how about getting rid of those stupid Guy Fawkes V for Vendetta Time Warner masks now in favor of Edward Snowden ones?

Got your browser cookies disabled and think you’re on the safe side now, concerning privacy and data tracking? Think again.

Panopticlick. (Via t3n.de.)

The New Yorker: A Game That Plays With Private Information.

August 1, 2013. The day the German journalism died. Or lied. Or both. #lsr

The Dad that draws on sandwich bags.

com.egal is doch nur Ösinet.

»unter der richtigen E-Mail-Adresse mit voller Signatur*« lässt bei der Krone bzgl. eines Leserbriefs »keinen Zweifel an der Echtheit« bestehen.

* Mit Signatur, so vermute ich übrigens, ist sicher keine digitale gemeint…

Learning is happening everywhere.

“ADL, the keepers of SCORM, issued a BAA asking for ideas for the next generation of SCORM.” — What is the Tin Can API?

A killer blow to neo-Nazi lies.

No Nazi was ever a Holocaust denier.

“They tried to pretend they were someone else, they tried to pretend they didn't know what was happening, they tried to pretend they didn't have as much to do with it as others, they tried to claim they were just following orders and they tried to justify it as ‘the kind of thing that happens in war’. But what not one of them ever did was deny it happened.”