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Thank you Twitter, for "shortening" my link in a perfect 140-char tweet to a longer one, so that @withknown has to cut it off and link it.

 

Case in point regarding @suitpossum's article I just linked: https://www.stupidhackathon.uk ‒ Acts of creativity never have "absolutely no value".

 

"We are currently witnessing the gentrification of hacker culture." https://aeon.co/essays/how-yuppies-hacked-the-original-hacker-ethos

 

D-PLACE contains cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 1400 human societies: https://d-place.org

 

In other news: half-naked, bearded people in mankinis, running along the riders, is a normal thing at nowadays. https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/160716-2059-vlcsnap-2016-07-16-22h56m56s380.png

 

Making my own energy bars in preparation of a bike tour. The most difficult part is not eating all of them before even going on the road.

 

And the 2016 award for worst choice of hastag goes to: https://twitter.com/hashtag/NiceAttack

 

Obviously, we need stricter truck control laws.

 

... but don't worry! The Bernank just had lunch with Abe so it'll all be fine.

 

The BOJ's balance sheet growth is so outlandish, that the BOE and Fed quadrupling theirs doesn't even compare: https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/753588771011059712/photo/1

 

Check exactly how much money your German doctor received from the pharma industry in 2015: http://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/diagnose/pharma-industrie-an-diese-aerzte-zahlten-pharmafirmen-geld...

 

Hypocrisy: Cheering hyper-nationalism for weeks, then getting upset when a right-wing politician says "national team" instead of "the team".

 

Searched for IRC or TrueCrypt? Read Linux Journal? Marked as extremist in XKeyscore. http://www.techspot.com/news/57316-nsa-classifies-linux-journal-readers-tor-and-tails-linux-users-as...

 

At the cost of privacy, sovereignty, ownership and resilience: https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/751049277896556544

 

The Halvening is a live monitor for the Bitcoin block reward halving (ETA: Saturday): http://www.thehalvening.com

 

And here's the Bitcoin community's Hillary-Clinton-promises-you-whatever-you-want-to-hear moment: http://www.coindesk.com/presidential-candidate-hillary-clinton-pledges-support-blockchain-tech/

 

The latest co.up newsletter is the most Berlin thing I've seen in a while: https://storage.5apps.com/basti/public/shares/160627-1755-Screenshot%20from%202016-06-27%2013-55-03....

 

Dear @offlinecamp people: if you're interested in tropical beaches and improving your apps' behaviour on bad networks, follow @hackerbeach!

 

Open https://map.hackerbeach.org in Chrome or Safari → add to home screen → look/zoom around → close app → airplane mode → open app → voilà.

 

During the "offline maps" session at @offlinecamp, I activated AppCache for our 4-year-old @hackerbeach map on @5apps Deploy: works offline.

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