Michael König

What used to be bugs and informants is now #spyware. Bringing together victims of #Stasi surveillance and #spyware to discuss: How can we protect #freedom in the digital age?

🗓️ November 12, 18:30
#BerlinFreedomWeek

Register here 👇

www.berlin-freedom-week.com/en/event/sta...

It's some kind of "tiny" magic to import your own web component and use it together with others in a web project. Just include the JS file and add the html tag. (in my case [:my-component] bc #Clojurescript). That's the way! #webdev

In Nazi Germany it was verboten to listen to the #BBC. #actually

Nice, I made a linklist web component pretty much for the same reasons.

A Master of Fashion Photography Who Embraces Accidents Paolo Roversi’s studio portraits push the Polaroid process to its limits.

"A Master of Fashion #Photography Who Embraces Accidents" www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

Soviet republic of New York takes first key step towards total communism by publicly owning Andrew Cuomo

A Confederacy of Toddlers The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.

"This shallow behavior leads to a deadening of the moral and civic spirit that undergirds #democracy. People who are willing to accept “your mom” as an answer to important questions are people who have already decided that democracy is a rigged game." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

How to Hack a Poker Game This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we break down how one of the most common card shufflers could be altered to cheat, and why that matters—even for those who don’t frequent the poker table.

"It did not seem like a good idea to have a camera inside of this thing waiting to be accessed by hackers." #technology www.wired.com/story/uncann...

“We were on the edge, but we didn’t cross the line”: Musicians across Russia come out in support of jailed anti-war street performers Russian street singer Diana Loginova — better known by her stage name Naoko — has been arrested yet again, this time receiving two consecutive 13-day sentences. One charge accuses her of “organizing t...

“We were on the edge, but we didn’t cross the line”: Musicians across Russia come out in support of jailed anti-war street performers

The band Stoptime and its vocalist Diana Loginova were arrested after singing banned anti-war songs in St. Petersburg.

So cool that we’re doing the 2008 financial crisis but this time, we’ll be bailing out the website that made out grandparents insane.

what if ai, by making the complex path more bearable, makes us to stop looking for simpler paths? (maybe you could prove your result in Higher-Order Logic and would not need to learn category theory...)

two police officers are talking to each other and one of them is saying i 'm thinking zombies ALT: two police officers are talking to each other and one of them is saying i 'm thinking zombies

This would be a good opener for a new HBO series. #tv www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"To serve is to offer something, a name, a website, a document, an idea –something to be shared, something that connects us. But who serves whom? Serving can be a painful experience. It is a relation that carries histories of gendered violence, histories of slavery, serfdom and oppression as we are taught by archives of resistance, black feminists and anti-colonial scholars. This violence extends to the materialities of the earth which is made to serve as resource, ready to be extracted for the minerals that make up the very chip that carries these thoughts as binary strings of information. Serving does not have to manifest as violence if we insist otherwise. Serving can become an act of empowerment when we build infrastructures that serve the needs of local and remote communities evolving around situated knowledge of those around us – while keeping in mind privilege often determines who has access to a community and its resources. The complexities of the internet with its corporate and state entanglements, its huge data centers, relentless data crawlers and transatlantic fibre cables can feel inevitable. To delink from time to time means to shift our focus back to the local networks and groups that we are already part of. We know that the internet is much more than its corporate occupants, it is about forming connections and sharing resources. Independent, selfmade networks remind us of the physical connections that are the base of all kinds of signal transmissions. Intimate networks that make us share and mitigate our vulnerabilities through trust and kinship. In the smallest scope, networks such as this ones."

Server Charms are tiny, portable microcontroller setups made with recycled vape batteries. They create their own Wi-Fi network, inviting curious people to connect with their devices where a captive portal opens, leading to small webpages.

codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...

an older man with a beard is wearing a white tank top and making a funny face . ALT: an older man with a beard is wearing a white tank top and making a funny face .

I'm probably just old but those growing cards on webpages annoy me to no end! Stop this madness!

Two months ago, an #AIslop farm passing as an online magazine stole the identity of our lead reporter and began publishing AI-generated articles under his name. He was not alone: at least 8 other journalists and influencers were falsely presented as writing for that outlet.

‘People thought I was a communist doing this as a non-profit’: is Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales the last decent tech baron? In an online landscape characterised by doom and division, the people’s encyclopedia stands out – a huge collective endeavour giving everyone free access to the sum of human knowledge. But with Elon M...

"… for us, #Wikipedia is completely global. It’s a free encyclopedia for every single person on the planet in their own language. So diversity, equity and inclusion are fundamental to the mission." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Maestro Ennio Morricone - Die ganze Doku | ARTE In Ennio Morricones (1928-2020) Filmmusik-Karriere versammeln sich über 70 preisgekrönte Filme von Regie-Legenden wie Quentin Tarantino, Barry Levinson oder Terrence Malick. Morricone komponierte über...

I watched this Ennio Morricone documentary. Not only was he a great composer but even the schlockiest B-movies from that era had a mad and wild energy and they absolutely tried to make art. #music #cinema (German audio and geo-blocked) www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...

Love finding random checkbox art

A time zone map showing of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and the Navajo Nation (an irregular shape spanning the northeast part of AZ, a small slice of southern Utah, and the northwest corner of NM. The Hopi reservation is a smaller shape like an island in the middle of the Navajo nation that used a different time zone). Arizona and the Hopi Reservation don’t observe DST; the Navajo Nation, Utah, and New Mexico do.

My state (in the US) doesn’t do DST, but the Navajo Nation does, resulting in this little glitch in the time zone map 🫠

NeinNein Herr Wachtmeister ich wollte ganz bestimmt nichts andeuten 😇

When trains are pricier than planes, there’s a heavy social, financial and environmental cost In this week’s newsletter: whether it’s a holiday or work trip, railway travellers find themselves burdened by astronomical prices

"From that perspective, the question is less, “Why are flights so cheap?” and more, “Who actually pays for them?”" #environment #railway www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bioscoop is a DSL for creative coding. It's fun!

Here is a Bioscoop program followed by its source code.

More examples can be found in the gallery at github.com/danielsz/bio...

Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests Gaming Copilot, rolling out now to Windows 11, adds a new attack surface to Windows.

Microsoft are rolling out Gaming Copilot to Windows 11 PCs. Silently, enabled by default, screenshots enabled by default, model training enabled by default. doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...

Annoyed by a rule-loving German who lectures you? Just say "JaJa" and move on. "JaJa" in this context means "Leck mich am Arsch" and every German knows that but it's also short and gives you plausible deniability. #German #Germany

The man, the myth, the legend!

#Clojurescript WebComponents library github.com/gersak/ty

Damn! I totally forgot I'm addicted to information and gossip!

If the #Internet becomes even more shittier I consider the nuclear option to just talk to people directly and reading books. I remember the time when I did exactly that and it wasn't that bad. The memes sucked of course.