9 Best Articles in 2021
The New York Times
Stop Trying to Be Productive
The New York Times
7 min read · 2020-04-01 · The internet wants you to believe you aren’t doing enough with all that “extra time” you have now. But staying inside and attending to basic needs is plenty.
medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
medium.com
~16 min read · From 2016 · 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.
Guardian Tech
'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
Guardian Tech
20+ min read · From 2017 · The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race…
The Pudding
How Bad Is Your Spotify?
The Pudding
2020-12-22 · Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music.
Ness Labs
From FOMO to JOMO: the joy of missing out September 6, 2019 In Mental Health
Ness Labs
6 min read · 2019-09-07 · JOMO—the joy of missing out—is a way to live an intentional life. It’s realising that FOMO is distracting you from your life’s purpose.
WIRED
Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet
WIRED
4 min read · 2020-02-17 · In this article for Wired, cultural correspondent Richard Clarke tracks the origins, the day-to-day functioning and the likely future of Wikipedia. He discusses how its founders first regarded it as an adjunct to another site; how “Wikignomes” keep the site up and running; how Alexa and Siri depend on Wikipedia for answers and will depend on it even more in the future; and why everyone who uses Wikipedia still remains slightly reluctant to cite it as a source. Clarke’s lively writing and lucid insights will captivate anyone who uses Wikipedia – that is, pretty much everyone.
MIT Technology Review
Our weird behavior during the pandemic is screwing with AI models
MIT Technology Review
6 min read · 2020-05-11 · Anyone looking for an illustration of how rapidly shopping habits changed when covid-19 hit needed only to glance at the top 10 search terms on Amazon in the week of April 12 to 18. In place of former…
The New York Times
What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go?
The New York Times
20+ min read · Mar 18th · When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.
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Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained
Vox
10 min read · Apr 1st · How design can manipulate and coerce you into doing what websites want.
WIRED
Signal Adds Payments—With a Privacy-Focused Cryptocurrency
WIRED
3 min read · Apr 6th · The encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals.
Pew Research Internet
Social Media Use in 2021
Pew Research Internet
6 min read · Apr 7th · A majority of Americans say they use YouTube and Facebook, while use of Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok is especially common among adults under 30.
MIT Technology Review
How beauty filters took over social media
MIT Technology Review
6 min read · Apr 2nd · Millions of young women are using face filters to make themselves look different. What will the consequences be?
Stratechery
Non-Fungible Taylor Swift
Stratechery
8 min read · Apr 12th · Taylor Swift, like Dave Chappelle, is leveraging the power of the Internet to take control of their art.
Pew Research Fact Tank
7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?
Pew Research Fact Tank
3 min read · Apr 2nd · Today, 25% of adults ages 65 and older report never going online, compared with much smaller shares of adults under the age of 65.
Guardian Books
In the Instagram age, you actually can judge a book by its cover
Guardian Books
4 min read · Apr 18th · Social media is now a vital platform to promote new titles. And that means jacket designs that hit you ‘hard and quick’
The Atlantic
Zoom Is Good, Actually
The Atlantic
7 min read · Apr 16th · For people like me, who have social anxiety, videoconferencing can be easier than in-person interactions. I’m going to miss it when it’s gone.
Hermit Crab
9 Netflix Hacks All Users Should Be Using
Hermit Crab
5 min read · Mar 7th · Here are some fun secrets that you can use to take your Netflix experience to the next level.
Artnet
Marina Abramović Has Partnered With WeTransfer to Teach People Her Mindfulness Method While They Wait for Files…
Artnet
2 min read · Mar 18th · The file-sharing site will also present works by five emerging performance artists handpicked by Abramovic herself.
