The Atlantic
Your Phone Is a Mindfulness Trap
7 min · · Relying on apps for meditation is a recipe for distrac—hold on, I just got a text. · Shared by 23, including Liv 😷, Daron Larson
The New York Times
Twitter Takes Aim at Posts That Link to Its Rival Substack
5 min · · Elon Musk’s company made the norm-shattering move two days after the publishing start-up Substack unveiled a Twitter-like service. · Shared by 35, including Liv 😷, Carl Zimmer, Brian Stelter, Dean Baker, Eric Topol, Arie Goldshlager, Mathew Ingram, Jay Rosen
The Guardian
‘Bossware is coming for almost every worker’: the software you might not realize is watching you
7 min · · Computer monitoring software is helping companies spy on their employees to measure their productivity – often without their consent · Shared by 120, including Dorothea Baur (Dr.), luis antónio santos, Nige Roberts-Willson, John Koetsier, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, USC, Christian Hartmann, Chris Gledhill, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Tactical Tech, Liv 😷, John Hagel, Mark Kaigwa, Andrew Spence, Patrick Sanwikarja
The New York Times
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?
4 min · · The people in this story may look familiar, like ones you’ve seen on Facebook or Twitter or Tinder. But they don’t exist. They were born from the mind of a computer, and the technology behind them is… · Shared by 701, including Martin Ford, John Koetsier, Chris Messina, Joshua Benton, Trent Walton, AI, Brian Solis, Sean Gardner, Lenore Skenazy, Bilal Zuberi, Paul Ekman, Christoph Trappe, Eric Topol, Kashmir Hill, Gerd Leonhard, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Tom D'Amico, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Guy Kawasaki, Nouriel Roubini
Entrepreneur
6 Smart Home Gadgets That Are Actually Worth Owning
3 min · · Like any tech product, some smart home devices are better than others. · Shared by 529, including Liv 😷, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Tauno, Ron McIntyre, Real Marsha Wright®
The Guardian
Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor
5 min · · In an exclusive global series, the Guardian lays bare the revolution and the wreckage that is engulfing the welfare state worldwide · Shared by 560, including Matt Navarra, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Claudia Sommer, Liv 😷, Eric Topol, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Thomas Power, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Chris Messina, Katja Evertz, Mark Coeckelbergh, Thomas Pleil, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Fern, ExApologist, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Sergio Caredda, Mark Little, AlgorithmWatch
The Spectator
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
6 min · · Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen… · Shared by 631, including Mike Maples, Jr, John Hagel, Jonathan Kogan, Jeff Atwood, Keith Rabois, Anand Sanwal, Jeff Richards, Fred Scharmen, Xose Alberte Cea, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Naval, John Nosta, Sachin Rekhi, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Antonio Vieira Santos, John Carmack, Ryan Selkis 🪳, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ 🛡️, Tim Soulo 🇺🇦
medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
16+ min · · When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want you to show you where it might do the opposite. · Shared by 2877, including fernand0, Parin Vachhani, Leo Polovets, Ryan Boren, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Brent Summers, Tristan Harris, Kenneth Kalmer, Curadoria | Update or Die!, Matthias Sala, Nir Eyal, Thomas Power, Chris Messina, David Cant ~👷🏻♂️, Courtney Bolton ★, Howard Getson, Matt Navarra, Rand Fishkin, Antonio Vieira Santos, hiten.eth
The New York Times
Russian Criminal Group Finds New Target: Americans Working at Home
9 min · · A hacking group calling itself Evil Corp., indicted in December, has shown up in corporate networks with sophisticated ransomware. American officials worry election infrastructure could be next. · Shared by 34, including Liv 😷, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Helen Branswell 🇺🇦, Michael (मुकेश), Oliver Bussmann, Bilal Zuberi
The New Yorker
Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the Future of Online Speech
4 min · · The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated. · Shared by 65, including Tris Hussey, Josh Bernoff, Christian Surchi, Liv 😷, Katja Evertz, Chris Messina, Mathew Ingram, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer