Weekly Filet #119: Your Digital Starbucks Cage. And more.
This week's top recommendation
What surveillance has to do with Starbucks and why everyone should learn to code. Before you dismiss the idea: What if you could read, but not write, listen, but not speak. That's pretty close to how most of us are using computers and the internet. It's a bit of a rant that I'm recommending here, but at its core it has a very valid wake-up call: «We’re not going to get through this by pushing buttons on centralized services. If you want to use the Internet in 2013, you need to pick up some tech skills.»
→ Distributed Everything (Medium)
Further recommendations
Every protest has its own specific reasons, but is there a common ground that explains why they seem to happen all over the world? This attempt is worth considering.
→ 10 Reasons Why Everyone Is Protesting (The Atlantic)
Digital photography is not only ruining special moments, it kills off our own memories of events and ourselves. Interesting essay, taking culture pessimism one step further.
→ This is You on Smiles (Medium)
An exceptional technique to create surreal photographs of people wearing water wigs.
→ Tim Tadder: Water Wigs (TagesWoche)
Maybe we can stop whining about immigration to our shiny counties now? This puts a lot into perspective. Most striking fact: The four most populous refugee camps in the world are all in the same country.
→ Where Are the 50 Most Populous Refugee Camps?