Categorie: Links
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Links van 18 oktober 2017 tot 19 oktober 2017
My Interview With a Rohingya Refugee: What Do You Say to a Woman Whose Baby Was Thrown Into a Fire? – The New York TimesAs I walked out of the refugee camp, my phone rang. The instant I said hello, my wife could hear it in my voice. “What’s wrong?” she asked. “I just finished…
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Links van 17 oktober 2017 tot 18 oktober 2017
John McCain’s Final Act Is War Against TrumpWhen he thumbs-downed the Republican health-care plan three months ago, McCain shocked the news media and members of both parties. He had previously displayed barely any interest in the issue at hand, and for more than a decade served as a largely reliable partisan vote that belied his…
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Links van 14 oktober 2017 tot 17 oktober 2017
One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to endTwitter was built at the tail end of that era. Their goal was giving everyone a voice. They were so obsessed with giving everyone a voice that they never stopped to wonder what would happen when everyone got one. And they never asked themselves what everyone meant.…
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Links van 12 oktober 2017 tot 13 oktober 2017
Debunking Jimbo: Slippery Google tries to evade European privacy • The Register2014 ondertussen al. Time flies. "Google’s latest celebrity recruit, Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales, recently gave an extraordinary performance on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show. We want to share with you what he said – verbatim – with expert commentary. It’s about the decision of…
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Links van 8 oktober 2017 tot 10 oktober 2017
Mensa offers to host IQ test for Trump and Tillerson | TheHillBring on the IQ test — Mensa says it’s willing to host President Trump and secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a battle of the brains. In an interview with Forbes published Tuesday, Trump suggested he and Tillerson — who allegedly once called the commander…
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Links voor 6 oktober 2017
Apple gave Uber’s app ‘unprecedented’ access to a secret backdoor that can record iPhone screens | Business Insider IndiaUber's iPhone app has a secret backdoor to powerful Apple features, allowing the ride-hailing service to potentially record a user's screen and access other personal information without their knowledge. The existence of Uber's access to special iPhone functions…
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Links van 3 oktober 2017 tot 5 oktober 2017
Humanity Still Producing New Art As Though Megadeth’s ‘Rust In Peace’ Doesn’t Already Exist – The Onion – America’s Finest News SourceThe deluded people churning out this worthless garbage just can’t seem to reconcile themselves to the fact that their pathetic little sculptures and films and novels and whatnot will always pale in comparison to…
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Links van 27 september 2017 tot 1 oktober 2017
De lotgevallen van de Witte: Over privileges, rechten en macht. – Jan Blommaert (en z’n gedachten)Wat het “white privilege” verhaaltje dus niet doet, is de macht zoeken waar ze werkelijk ligt. Neen, ze smeert de macht uit over een oneindig aantal “witte mensen”, zodat ze in wezen onzichtbaar wordt en nooit onder vuur komt te…
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Links van 26 september 2017 tot 27 september 2017
How to Hold in Your Poop in Embarrassing Situations: 10 StepsIt’s harder to hold in poop if your muscles around your rectum are weak. If your nerves are damaged in that area, you might not even know a stool has come out. See a doctor in such cases. The Boys of Brexit: Tony Blair and…
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Links van 24 september 2017 tot 26 september 2017
(703) Xenia Fox- My ALIEN ENCOUNTER That Wasn’t a Dream, Relaying Messages in Lucid Dreams – YouTubeI am legally changing my name to first name Xenia, last name -Fox this year. I will be a rich and famous billionaire for 24 talents/near future careers. Perfection is the fun journey of forever expanding potential as long…
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Links van 21 september 2017 tot 23 september 2017
The inside story of Labour’s election shock | Politics | The GuardianWhen a snap election was called, a divided Labour sprang into action to defy predictions of a wipeout and upturn the political consensus. The key players tell Heather Stewart how it all happened The making of the Maybot: a year of mindless slogans, U-turns…
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Links van 12 september 2017 tot 19 september 2017
Nieuw Syrisch eethuisje aan Sint-Jacobs: “Een eerbetoon aan … (Gent) – Het NieuwsbladEen restaurantje op Bij Sint-Jacobs waar Gentenaars kunnen proeven van de Syrische keuken en cultuur. Met de hulp van zijn kinderen realiseert Mohamed Akrah (52) zijn levensdroom in 'De Dageraad van Aleppo'. “De grandeur van Aleppo komt terug.” A beginner’s guide to using…
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Links van 11 september 2017 tot 12 september 2017
Camera Obscura – bookforum.com / current issueVivian Maier was an ambitious and prolific photographer who conducted her work in the open but kept its results almost entirely to herself. No one has any idea why that is. We know about her work only by chance, and through cultural and economic circumstances specific to the early…
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Links van 7 september 2017 tot 10 september 2017
Progress Indicators in Mobile UX Design – UX Planet“When the users were presented with a custom loading animation in the Facebook iOS app (left) they blamed the app for the delay. But when users were shown the iOS system spinner (right), they were more likely to blame the system itself.” (657) Moishe Lettvin – What…
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Links van 17 augustus 2017 tot 1 september 2017
I criticized Google. It got me fired. That’s how corporate power works. – The Washington PostFor the last fifteen years, I’ve done my antimonopoly writing and research at a think tank in Washington named New America. This last June 27, my group published a statement praising the European Union for fining Google for violating antitrust…