J.R.McHale : Recommended:

> [All Job Increases Since 2001 are in Non-Routine Work](http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/009776.html) – FuturePundit, commenting on [Is Your Job ‘Routine’? If So, It’s Probably Disappearing](http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/08/is-your-job-routine-if-so-its-probably-disappearing/) – Wall Street Journal. But with a bit of the contrary view – [Be Calm, Robots Aren’t About to Take Your Job, MIT Economist Says](http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/02/25/be-calm-robots-arent-about-to-take-your-job-mit-economist-says/) – Wall Street Journal. Also: ProfessorDavid H. Autor’s (MIT) paper *Polanyi’s Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth* ([pdf](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2496241); 47 pages), which is cited in the WSJ article. From the abstract: “A key observation of the paper is that journalists and expert commentators overstate the extent of machine substitution for human labor and ignore the strong complementarities. The challenges to substituting machines for workers in tasks requiring adaptability, common sense, and creativity remain immense.”

> [The Computers are Listening; How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text (part 1)](https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/05/nsa-speech-recognition-snowden-searchable-text/) and [(part 2)](https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/11/speech-recognition-nsa-best-kept-secret/) – The Intercept

> [With Lock Research, Another Battle Brews in the War Over Security Holes](http://www.wired.com/2015/05/lock-research-another-battle-brews-war-security-holes/) – Wired

> [Tor Browser 4.5 is Released](https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-45-released) – The Tor Project; plus there’s a relatively recent new version of SecureDrop (0.3) – [Announcing the New Version of SecureDrop, with the Results from our Third Security Audit (March 23rd)](https://freedom.press/blog/2015/03/announcing-securedrop-0.3) – Freedom of the Press Foundation and related commentary at [BoingBoing](http://boingboing.net/2015/03/23/new-version-of-securedrop-ope.html). Also: [The People Who Risk Jail to Maintain the Tor Network](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-operators) – Motherboard/Vice

> [Smartphone Secrets May Be Better Than a Password](http://www.technologyreview.com/news/536921/smartphone-secrets-may-be-better-than-a-password/) – MIT Technology Review, and the related academic paper *ActivPass: Your Daily Activity is Your Password* ([pdf](http://synrg.csl.illinois.edu/papers/activpass.pdf); 10 pages)

> [Encrypting Your Laptop Like You Mean It](https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/27/encrypting-laptop-like-mean/) and [Passphrases that You Can Memorize, but that Even the NSA Can’t Guess](https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/26/passphrases-can-memorize-attackers-cant-guess/) – Micah Lee at The Intercept

> [SEC Adopts Rules to Facilitate Smaller Companies’ Access to Capital](http://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-49.html#.VRRoI9YQHdT) – the SEC’s press sheet and fact sheet on its revisions to Regulation A. Also: [pdf](http://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2015/33-9741.pdf) of the Final Rules and supplementary information (454 pages).

> [The Mission to Save the Internet by Rewiring it from the Name Up](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-internet-of-names) – Motherboard/Vice

> [China Rates its Own Citizens, Including Online Behavior](http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/china-rates-its-own-citizens-including-online-behaviour~a3979668/) – Volkskrant; and [Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System (2014-2020)](https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/planning-outline-for-the-construction-of-a-social-credit-system-2014-2020/) – China Copyright and Media

> #### General Interest

> [Natural Police: Seen through Game Theory, Cancer and Police Corruption are Pretty much the Same Thing, and for One of Them, There’s a Cure](http://aeon.co/magazine/society/game-theorys-cure-for-corruption-make-us-all-cops/?utm_source=Aeon+newsletter&utm_campaign=34c7085ad6-Daily_newsletter_May_11_20155_11_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-34c7085ad6-68671829) – Aeon

> [Where the Real Skyscrapers Are; Hint: North Dakota](http://www.archdaily.com/625418/where-the-real-skyscrapers-are-hint-north-dakota/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ArchDaily+%28ArchDaily%29) – ArchDaily on TV masts as some of the tallest structures in the world

> [The Messy Business of Reinventing Happiness: Inside Disney’s Radical Plan to Modernize its Cherished Theme Parks](http://www.fastcompany.com/3044283/the-messy-business-of-reinventing-happiness#!) – FastCompany

> [ZPM Expresso and the Rage of the Jilted Crowdfunder](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/zpm-espresso-and-the-rage-of-the-jilted-crowdfunder.html) – New York Times; but see Professor James Grimmelmann [Riskstarter; Kickstarter is a Tool for Managing Risk](http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/118123399970/riskstarter). Also: [A Crowdfunded Startup Explains why Crowdfunding can be a Complete Disaster](http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/27/7920963/lockitron-bolt-door-lock) – Verge

> [New Study Shows that People Stop Listening to New Music at 33](http://www.avclub.com/article/new-study-shows-people-stop-listening-new-music-33-218752) – A.V.Club

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