“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]

• Future Reading. [Aeon Magazine]
• The lost art of getting lost. [BBC]
• Boredom is not a problem to be solved. It’s the last privilege of a free mind. [The Guardian]

“The robots aren’t taking our jobs; they’re taking our leisure.” (The Automation Myth, Vox)

• Dark Thoughts on Ecomodernism. [The Dark Mountain Blog]
• The End of Walking [Aeon Magazine]
• A Fading Tradition in Spain Gets an Unusual Boost: Shepherd School. [NYT]
• Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalyps”. [Vanity Fair]
• Fly or Die: Air Travel and the Internationalisation of Academic Careers. [The Demand Centre]
• Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway — With me in it. [Wired] Via Death By Car.
• The Automation Myth. [Vox] Via Aaron Vansintjan.

• Killer robots: the soldiers that never sleep [BBC]
• Let children move around, stand or walk in the classroom. You’ll see the difference [The Conversation]
• Mixed fortunes as solidarity economy takes root in Greece [The Guardian]
• When the end of civilization is your day job [Esquire] Via Ran Prieur.
• The internet of things you don’t really need [The Atlantic]