"Show us the kids who have lost their arms and their legs. Show us the suffering."
The US campus protests over Gaza might be more about the generational media gap than raw belief. About TikTok vs CNN. About what people see, not what they think?
The power of mangluage.
This isn’t political. It’s lexical. In Time’s interview, Trump uses civilians instead of citizens in arguing that the US military could be employed against immigrants who aren’t ‘civilians’
Gasoline, meet fire.
It's now basically impossible to talk about Black Lives Matter. And that's a disaster. So.. social injustice. Constructs, Inequality. Labels.
Labels are good for identity, but bad for people. There's no power in labels. They don't ‘empower’, they ‘other’.
Emanuel School Speech Night.
It was a school speech. Like in a book about public schools from the 1950's and I got to play that person: the pompous self-important grandee. And it was joyous in so many ways.
One year on, we’re still not recognizing the complexity of information disorder online
One year on, we’re still not recognizing the complexity of information disorder onlineClaire is based in First Draft’s New York bureau and leads strategy and research.First DraftClaire Wardle
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When Is Speech Violence?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/opinion/sunday/when-is-speech-violence.html
If words can cause stress, and if prolonged stress can cause physical harm, then it seems that speech — at least certain
Move Over, Bitcoin. Ether Is the Digital Currency. [2017]
The price of Bitcoin has hit record highs in recent months, more than doubling in price since the start of the year. Despite these gains, Bitcoin is on the verge of losing
Design Indaba 2017: what you missed and whether it matters
Sometimes. When people write REALLY lovely things about me. I keep them. Especially as it is the very very very last thing she mentions and I thought I was (understandably) not going
Crowd-sleuthing : using high-res satellites to search for missing Malaysian plane - from Wired UK
Great article from WIRED on the crowdsleuthing of the missing Malaysian plane.
Digital Globe are doing some pretty awesome digital sleuthing using their hi-res Satellite imagery - this latest project - helping
MAPS :: squabble over geo-accurate Harry Beck adaptation
via fastcodesign.com
Mark Noad updated Harry Beck's Tube map and it all kicked off.
I rather like it. In fact I love it. As a cyclist it makes COMPLETE
The Sketchbook Project 2006 - 2023
I love this project. It reminds me how creative we all are (even if you can't draw for shit); it reminds me how much fun it is to participate; and
BankerBikes. There are lots. We get it.
There's also quite a lot of rather interesting and scrapeable data coming out of the usage patterns and conveniently supplied by TFL...
http://borisapi.heroku.com/
and a cool Earth
Listening to bird song, and discovering how to hear : Chris Watson at Port Eliot Festival
This talk by Chris Watson was my highlight of Port Eliot Festival this year.
Imagine yourself in a remarkably large, very dark, circular room, say 25ft diameter - there are around 30
The surprising truth about what motivates us
Great animated RSA talk by Dan Pink on what motivates us. It's not the money
This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates
Apps Transport for London needs to make.
Missing TFL Apps I would (probably) pay (a pound) for:
1. Bus Tracker App with live GPS updates from buses.
2. Bus App that let's you use your Oyster card
12 Days, 3 Countries, Different Planets
I recently travelled to the Google offices in Japan, Hong Kong and India. Here are a few Nexus snaps taken along the way. I'm not about to write a travel
Personalised bank security questions are causing me existential
anxiety
So. minor moment of crisis - is it really weird not to have favourite 'things' (things that remain absolute and unchanging)?
Should I be totally concerned that I have no
DingDay '09 :: Weds Sept 9th
I don't think there can be enough encouragement for days where people do something completely free and completely environmentally friendly and completely nice - like ring their bike bells at
Google vs. Bing: The Blind Taste Test
We dined out on the injustice of this purely psychological bias for at least a decade. If anything it is probably getting worse.
https://techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-choose-in-the-blind-test/
Have you
Seth's Blog: Guy #3
An example of the kind of analysis from Seth Godin that makes you watch something you would never watch, and then watch it repeatedly, and then change your whole life perspective. Which
Who's in charge here? It's all screwed up.
Doonesbury has been running a fab story this week, about a press conference held by "Fear itself".
Who else could tell you that since 9/11 (3,000 dead) the
