'Art shouldn’t be weaponised': the atonal concert championing Berlin's homeless

A plan to use ‘hostile’ music to clear the homeless from the city’s S-Bahn trains has been forced off the rails by concerned musicians

The Guardian
@RuthInkognito @thomas Aus genau diesem Grund. #DefensiveDesign
@[email protected]:Die dunklen Wintermonate stehen vor der Tür. Es wird kalt und wir rücken mehr zusammen. Aber bitte nicht mit allen ...

#defensivedesign #menschenfeindlichearchitektur #nichtmaldasmindeste #BR_quer
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“Die dunklen Wintermonate stehen vor der Tür. Es wird kalt und wir rücken mehr zusammen. Aber bitte nicht mit allen ... #defensivedesign #menschenfeindlichearchitektur #nichtmaldasmindeste #BR_quer”

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While I fully agree with the points this article on #EthicalDebt raises, that term isn't entirely fitting.

#TechnicalDebt refers to bugs, reduced performance, and other shortcomings due to skipping corners in software development.

Hardening software against abuse should be a deliberate practice that's part of #DefensiveDesign, where developers ensure that IF things go wrong, they do so in the quickest, least painful, and most informative way possible.