Monthly Archives: oktober 2018
370 completely different Apple Logos
Het meest Apple ding ooit: elke journalist die uitgenodigd werd voor de persconferentie op 30 oktober kreeg een ander Apple-logo opgestuurd. https://twitter.com/alixrezax/status/1053083392458309632
Adobe’s chief product officer Scott Belsky on bringing Photoshop to the iPad
Nilay Patel interviewde Scott Belsky voor The Verge: I’m going to go on a limb here and say that the era of the file is over. I think that a creation is really a combination of components. Look at a Photoshop “file.” What is it really? It’s a collection of fonts, images and layers of […]
Wij zijn de Malinwa, en zij hebben het vergooid
Matthias-van-de-voetbal in De Morgen: En toen kwamen zij. Ze hadden alles: geld en eigendunk, geld en roemzucht, geld en de vaste overtuiging dat de club hen toebehoorde en het instrument was van hun wanen. Ze hadden alles, behalve het enige dat telt: liefde en eergevoel. Ik slaap er al enkele nachten niet van en wou […]
A Young Activist’s Advice: Vote, Shave Your Head and Cry Whenever You Need To
Emma González, een tiener die school liep tijdens de Parkland shooting: On the 16th, I was asked to speak at a gun control rally by a woman on the school board. For what seemed like the first time, adults were treating me and my peers as though they cared about what we had to say.
The Problem with Facebook Is Facebook
Siva Vaidhyanathan bij Logic Mag: Nothing will happen if we don’t demand building codes for these sorts of systems. And those codes have to be enforced from outside, in the form of regulation. Solving Facebook through Facebook is futile.
Memo to the media: Stop spreading Trump’s fake news
Greg Sargent in The Washington Post: It is a great irony of the current political moment: By broadcasting forth Trump’s lies in tweets and headlines — while declining to inform readers that they are just that, and while burying the truth deep within accompanying articles — the organizations that Trump regularly derides as “fake news” […]
Near Term Human Extinction
T.A. Fave op Medium: Near-term human extinction is a real concern. It is not only possible, it is probable. We have already locked in several degrees over what has ever been experienced by the species homo. We are not yet experiencing the warming that is a result of carbon dioxide added in the last ten […]
#ThisIs18
Wat een prachtig verpakt online initiatief van The New York Times: What does life look like for girls turning 18 in 2018? We gave young women photographers around the world an assignment: Show us 18 in your community. This is 18 — through girls’ eyes.
How a Fortnite squad of scientists is hoping to defeat climate change
Geniaal idee. The Verge: Every Sunday for two hours, Drake jumps into Fortnite, bringing climate-themed guests — such as Dessler and Peter Griffith, the founding director of NASA’s Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office — with him. While they play (and stream to Twitch), they chat about climate change. The three-month-old squad has set out to […]