Schneier on security: “There’s no good reason to trust blockchain technology” https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/
Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/23/conspiracy-theories-internet-survivors-truth
Viral Clash of Students and American Indians Explained - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/viral-clash-students-and-native-americans-explained/580906/
Technology and The Worker // Notes From Below https://notesfrombelow.org/article/technology-and-the-worker
The internet, but not as we know it: life online in China, Russia, Cuba and India | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2019/jan/11/the-internet-but-not-as-we-know-it-life-online-in-china-russia-cuba-and-india
Hopepunk can’t fix our broken science fiction. https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/hopepunk-cyberpunk-solarpunk-science-fiction-broken.html
The real story behind Margot Robbie’s wild Queen Elizabeth I makeup. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/queen-elizabeth-makeup-margot-robbie-mary-queen-of-scots-real-story.html
The Men Peddling the ‘Secrets’ to Getting Rich on Amazon - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/men-peddling-secrets-getting-rich-amazon/578443/
A Christmas Story: A Tale of Technological Nostalgia - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4PM1MFT5mk
We tried teaching an AI to write Christmas movie plots. Hilarity ensued. Eventually. - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612644/we-tried-teaching-an-ai-to-write-christmas-movie-plots-hilarity-ensued-eventually/
Facebook workers are the only people who can hold the company accountable. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/facebook-workers-privacy-violation.html
Why Your iPhone Selfies Don’t Look Like Your Face - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/your-iphone-selfies-dont-look-like-your-face/578353/
Star Wars is Really a Cautionary Tale About Devoting All Technological Advancements to Death | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/12/17/star-wars-is-really-a-cautionary-tale-about-devoting-all-technological-advancements-to-death/
A Professional Safecracker Reveals His Craft - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/professional-safecracker-reveals-his-craft/577897/
It’s time for a Bill of Data Rights - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612588/its-time-for-a-bill-of-data-rights/
Building Technology https://communitytechnology.github.io/
Tumblr’s adult-content ban could doom it with fandom communities. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/tumblr-fandom-adult-content-ban-livejournal.html
William Gibson: Technology, Science Fiction & the Apocalypse - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlvle5YBv4
The Little Regulation That Will Make a Big Change in How You Do Business: Department of Commerce to Establish New Export Controls on Emerging Technologies - Lexology https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=205f4c5f-17c7-4d18-9967-a01983883706
Heads up, apparently there are gonna be export restrictions on neural net, reinforcement learning, computer vision, NLP, & similar research done in the US: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25221/review-of-controls-for-certain-emerging-technologies
Martin Heidegger and Günther Anders on Technology: On Ray Kurzweil, Fritz Lang, and Transhumanism https://medium.com/amor-mundi/martin-heidegger-and-g%C3%BCnther-anders-on-technology-on-ray-kurzweil-fritz-lang-and-transhumanism-a48a4c123c09
It is not that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but that anything is indistinguishable from magic from the perspective of the sufficiently ignorant. Clarke assumes we will lose the red queen’s race with polymathy.
Band name of the day: human flesh technology
Constructive Technology Criticism Annotated Syllabus https://medium.com/tow-center/constructive-technology-criticism-annotated-syllabus-b7b46862cd20
What’s Wrong With ‘X Is Dead’ - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/08/whats-wrong-with-x-is-dead/61663/
Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/constructive_technology_criticism.php/
Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/
Canon Cat Leap Technology : Information Appliance Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/CanonCatLeapTechnology
Trust and Complex Technology: The Cyborg’s Modern Bargain - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/11/23/trust-in-complex-technology-the-cyborgs-modern-bargain/
How YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Really Works - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-youtubes-algorithm-really-works/575212/
Cesar Sayoc and others on Twitter are behaving like bots. https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/cesar-sayoc-twitter-humans-behaving-bots.html
Amy Winehouse’s 2019 tour: why dead celebrity holograms keep happening - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/23/18010274/amy-winehouse-hologram-tour-controversy-technology
Language is a technology & we ought to start acting like it
“Rosie Pattern Language: Improving on 50-Year Old Regular Expression Technology” by Jamie Jennings - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTiYDrb0zg
Supermicro boards were so bug ridden, why would hackers ever need implants? | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/10/supermicro-boards-were-so-bug-ridden-why-would-hackers-ever-need-implants/
The Political Cost of the Chinese Hardware Hack - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/political-cost-chinese-hardware-hack/572383/
Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5172/juggalo-juggalette-facepaint-makeup-hack-beat-facial-recognition-technology
Can an AI Write a Novel? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/automated-on-the-road/571345/
Regarding Theory as Technology - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/09/17/regarding-theory-as-technology/
DSHR’s Blog: It Isn’t About The Technology https://blog.dshr.org/2018/01/it-isnt-about-technology.html
Researchers show Alexa “skill squatting” could hijack voice commands | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/08/researchers-show-alexa-skill-squatting-could-hijack-voice-commands/
The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it all went wrong - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611805/the-four-ways-that-ex-internet-idealists-explain-where-it-all-went-wrong/
This is what filter bubbles actually look like - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611807/this-is-what-filter-bubbles-actually-look-like/
Twitter’s new developer guidelines might end fun bot accounts. https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/twitters-new-developer-guidelines-might-end-fun-bot-accounts.html
What Silicon Valley won’t admit about technology and progress | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-silicon-valley-wont-admit-about-technology-and-progress
Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/
WTF #PayPal? “… as we have received notice that you are deceased… this breach is not capable of remedy.” https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44783779
Smart Toilets: Is the World Ready For Connected Lavatories? https://tedium.co/2018/07/05/smart-bathroom-technology-toilets/
Thinking Machine: Ramon Llull Inner Life of Advanced Technology Catholicism God Machine David Metcalfe http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theglobalcatholicreview/2018/06/gods-machine/
QOTD: “Like any extension of the human psyche, machines are scary things[…] When you take the scary human psyche and magnify it hundreds or thousands of times with technology, it’s really nightmarish”
Habeas Data excerpt: How a mugger helped create the modern NSA surveillance program. https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/habeas-data-excerpt-how-a-mugger-helped-create-the-modern-nsa-surveillance-program.html
A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/
Are you really Facebookâs product? The history of a dangerous idea. https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/are-you-really-facebooks-product-the-history-of-a-dangerous-idea.html
countercomplex: Bringing magic back to technology http://viznut.fi/texts-en/magic_back_to_technology.html
countercomplex: Counteracting alienation with technological arts and crafts http://viznut.fi/texts-en/counteracting_tech_alienation.html
Hot take: If you believe technological determinism cannot be effectively resisted, then how much the projected trajectory benefits you personally determines where you fall on the scale from Kevin Kelley to the Unabomber
TIL that the technology for viewing US census data summaries is called DADS: https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/data_access_and_dissemination_system_dads.htm
How to keep your ISPâs nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/
A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/
My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/
Bad idea of the day: Wear a rubber band on your wrist and snap it every time you say ‘technology’, ‘market’, ‘end user’, ‘standard’, ‘I’, or ‘is’.
Huge MIT Study of ‘Fake News’: Fa… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/
SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Kni… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/the-making-of-skyknit-an-ai-yarn/554894/
Gratitude for Invisible Systems - The Atla… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/gratitude-for-invisible-systems/526344/
The Rise of Virtual Citizenship - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/virtual-citizenship-for-sale/553733/
Quinn Norton: The New York Times … https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/the-new-york-times-fired-my-doppelganger/554402/
Pet peeve: people who don’t realize that pencils are a technology
John Perry Barlow gav… https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-gave-internet-activists-only-half-the-mission-they-need.html
There Is No Such Thing as a Smart City - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/stupid-cities/553052/
The Center for Humane… https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/02/09/the-center-for-humane-technology-doesnt-want-your-attention/
We’re really bad at being dispassionate about non-social technologies, but even worse about social technologies (by which I mean: political systems, power relations).
Social structure is a technology, but it’s one that most self-identified techies are ill-equipped to debug, mainly due to bigotry against properly studying it.
The second and third books are mostly about the political & social ramifications of resleeving technology over centuries. That is, after all, the point of the series.
Tools, substitutes or compani… https://cyberselves.org/2018/02/05/tools-substitutes-or-companions-metaphors-for-thinking-about-technology/
Solder History: The Unsung Hero of Digital Electronics https://tedium.co/2018/01/25/soldering-technology-history/
The Coming Software Apocalypse - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/
OkCupid begins e… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/okcupid-begins-enforcing-real-name-rules-insists-its-a-good-idea/
AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609482/ai-is-dreaming-up-new-kinds-of-video-games/
Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: ‘The system is failing’ | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/15/tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web-net-neutrality
Facebook’s fake news experiment backfires - BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41900877
Machine learning hobbyist Janelle Shane talks about her wacky neural nets. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/08/machine_learning_hobbyist_janelle_shane_talks_about_her_wacky_neural_nets.html
Tech’s push to teach coding isn’t about kids’ success – it’s about cutting wages | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages
Ads don’t work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/27/pirate-bay-showtime-ads-websites-electricity-pay-bills-cryptocurrency-bitcoin
Расследование РБК: как «фабрика троллей» поработала на выборах в США :: Технологии и медиа :: РБК http://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/17/10/2017/59e0c17d9a79470e05a9e6c1
Exocortices: A Definition of a Technology - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/10/10/exocortices-definition-technology/
When computer predictions end up shaping the future. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/09/when_computer_predictions_end_up_shaping_the_future.html
Summit Powder Mountain and the Architecture of Utopia - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/the-architecture-of-utopia/539109/
The Dumb Fact of Google Money - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/the-dumb-fact-of-google-money/538458/
How Silicon Valley’s past predicts its future: an interview with Ellen Ullman - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/29/16215836/ellen-ullman-life-in-code-interview-technology-ai
Tim Harford — Article — What We Get Wrong About Technology http://timharford.com/2017/08/what-we-get-wrong-about-technology/
Eliminating the Human - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608580/eliminating-the-human/
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608561/first-evidence-that-social-bots-play-a-major-role-in-spreading-fake-news/
Meet the Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces With "Secure Scuttlebutt" - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/meet-the-counterantidisintermediationists/527553/
The Technology of the Cloud Index — James Bridle http://cloudindx.com/technology/
The Best Keyboard Ever Is Back http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a27123/model-f-project-buckling-spring-keyboard/