• Hail the maintainers. [Aeon]
• The end of upgradable Apple computers. [Motherboard]
• Eye contact is good for you. [Guardian]
• Weapons AI increasingly replacing, not augmenting, human decision making. [Defense One]
• The demoralized mind. [New Internationalist]
• The binge breaker. [Atlantic]
• Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster. [Guardian]

Last three links via Hunther/Gatherer.

• Welcome to Airspace. [The Verge]
• The World Wide Cage. [Aeon]
• The Moral Economy of Tech. [Idle Words] [Thanks to Gabe Finch]

“Are we fixing the right things? Are we breaking the wrong ones? Is it necessary to start from scratch every time?”

• Solving all the wrong problems. [NYT]
• The Internet of Things has a dirty little secret: it is not really yours. [The Verge]
• Farmers demand right to repair their own tractors. [Modern Farmer]
• How technology disrupted the truth. [Guardian]
• The hand-held’s tale. [Aeon]
• Just us. No Phones.

• Your brain is not a computer. [Aeon]
• How technology hijacks people’s minds. [Medium] Via Ran Prieur.
• Picture: Web 0.0 [Biancoshock]

“The technology has made possible undetectable and untraceable manipulations of entire populations that are beyond the scope of existing regulations and laws”

• The New Mind Control. [Aeon]
• Image Overload. [The Conversation]
• Addicted to Distraction. [NYT]
• The Art of Attention. [Aeon]
• Seconds of Pleasure. [The New Inquiry]
• How You Can Use Facebook to Track your Friends Sleeping Habits. [Medium]
• Take This Lollipop. [Connect with Facebook & see what happens, depending on your privacy settings]

Last two links via Carolynne Lord.

• This dumb smart fridge shows why the internet of things will break [iFixit]
• Why your new smartphone is probably not as good as your phone from a decade ago [The Telegraph]
• What we have lost now we can no longer read the sky [Aeon]
• User behaviour: should the net be regulated like drugs or casinos? [Aeon]
• Digital culture, meet analog fever [NYT]
• Stop Googling. Let’s talk. [NYT]
• What’s lost as handwriting fades? [NYT]
• How drones make war too easy. [Defense One]
• What we do to nature, we do to ourselves [A New and Ancient Story]