I guess cc @futurebird for the hymenoptera content.

What I imagine hymenoptera conservatives to be like: "There are only three genders, female reproductive, male reproductive, and worker"
Some ant: "What about super majors?"
Some other ant: "Also gamergates, are they workers or reproductives?"
Conservative hymenoptera: "There are only three genders, female reproductive, male reproductive, and worker!"

Some termite *opens mouth* …

Conservative hymenoptera, shouting: "There are only three genders, female reproductive, male reproductive, and worker!!!!!"

Moreover, I think the Zeit is making some important meta commentary about journalism:
Sometimes you have to lead with an opinion piece. You cannot neutrally report some events, and should not even try.
Sometimes, it is good to redact an image. Not to withhold information from your readers, but as a comment in itself "this is what we, as a society, do not accept". The reader still learns what happened from the text. If they do wish, they can find the full picture easily plastered all over the internet. But you don't have a Nazi salute on your front page.

Content of the Zeit article, summarized:
- Yes this was a Hitler salute. No "apparent" necessary. We've all seen it.
- Newspapers now have two choices, both of them bad: they can ignore it ever happened, as to not feed the attention the action clearly craved, which normalizes open Nazi symbolism further, or they can explicitly address it, knowing that Musk wants attention, even negative attention. Clearly the Zeit has chosen the latter, and redacted the salute itself to somewhat lessen the impact.

Frontpage News. Digital. Artist unknown.

@inthehands @august don't forget that in the case of using a web interface, you have no guarantees that the JavaScript sent to you is the same JavaScript that was sent to someone else, or even the same that was sent to you yesterday. So if you want to target an individual, you can just ship a special version of the code that includes a line saying "and now send the private key unencrypted to the NSA", and you're unlikely to ever notice.

With downloaded apps such as signal (even signal desktop), this attack is far more difficult to pull off (but not mitigated fully if you want updates regularly)

How Facebook's new moderation guidelines read

@david_chisnall @ryanc @Lookatableflip and don't forget the whole Debian random number generator debacle. That was probably one of the motivating factors for adding RDRAND and friends to modern CPUs.

I was forwarded this screenshot and it just is living rent free in my head right now.

@inthehands @Crell the fun thing about ostensibly defined concepts is that you get edge cases that still very much can claim to be the thing, but which have mutually empty intersection. In this case: implementing NAND gates, wires, and delay lines using Venus fly traps is programming (it's creating a Turing complete device, after all), and writing a markdown document is programming (it's telling a computer how to do stuff, after all), but their intersection is empty (unless, of course, you use a lot of Venus fly traps and implement x86).

I feel like the world is more fun that way, compared to excluding random things.