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The Simple Joy of “No Phones Allowed”
David James Swanson op Raptitude: That might have been the most interesting part of this experiment: when you add a small, immediate cost to unlocking your phone (in this case a twenty-second walk to the concourse), it suddenly isn’t worth doing. That says a lot about much we really value most of our impromptu screen […]
The End of Endings
Mooi gezegd: Canceled television shows are reinstated. Killed-off characters are resuscitated. Movies do not begin and end so much as they loiter onscreen. And social media is built for infinite scrolling. Nothing ends anymore, and it’s driving me insane.
Surveillance Kills Freedom By Killing Experimentation
Bruce Schneier op WIRED: We don’t yet know which subversive ideas and illegal acts of today will become political causes and positive social change tomorrow, but they’re around. And they require privacy to germinate. Take away that privacy, and we’ll have a much harder time breaking down our inherited moral assumptions.
Five days of fury: Inside Trump’s Paris temper, election woes and staff upheaval
The Washington Post met een overzicht van Trump’s afgelopen week: “He’s just a bull carrying his own china shop with him whenever he travels the world,” presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said. En: “Trump needs adulation, so heading into the midterms, holding these rallies, he was cheered and it became narcissistic fuel to his engine,” Brinkley […]
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
Mega-artikel in The New York Times. Dit vond ik het interessantste stuk: By January 2017, the group knew that Mr. Stamos’s original team had only scratched the surface of Russian activity on Facebook, and pressed to issue a public paper about their findings. But Mr. Kaplan and other Facebook executives objected. Washington was already reeling […]
The Correspondent
Onmiddellijk gesteund: News as we know it leaves us cynical, divided, and less informed. We’re building a movement for radically different news. And we can’t do it without you.
I asked an online tracking company for all of my data and here’s what I found
Zotte dingen op de website van Privacy International: The world is being rebuilt by companies and governments so that they can exploit data. Without urgent and continuous action, data will be used in ways that people cannot now even imagine, to define and manipulate our lives without us being to understand why or being able […]
Marvel and Disney Remember Stan Lee
R.I.P. “Stan Lee was as extraordinary as the characters he created. A super hero in his own right to Marvel fans around the world, Stan had the power to inspire, to entertain, and to connect. The scale of his imagination was only exceeded by the size of his heart,” said Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO, […]
Sundar Pichai of Google: ‘Technology Doesn’t Solve Humanity’s Problems’
In een interview met The New York Times: One of the things that’s not well understood, I think, is that we operate in many countries where there is censorship. When we follow “right to be forgotten” laws, we are censoring search results because we’re complying with the law. I’m committed to serving users in China. […]