Recommended:
> #### Law, Tech and Policy
> [Why It’s Hard to Sue the NSA: You Have to Prove It Spied on You](http://www.wired.com/2015/08/hard-sue-nsa-prove-spied/) – Wired
> [Tech Companies May be our Best Hope for Resisting Government Surveillance](http://fusion.net/story/193583/tech-companies-may-be-our-best-hope-for-resisting-government-surveillance/) – Ryan Calo at Fusion; and his related academic paper: [Can Americans Resist Surveillance?](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2635181)
> [A New Design (Indistinguishability Obfuscation or IO) for Cryptography’s Black Box](https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150902-indistinguishability-obfuscation-cryptographys-black-box/) – Quanta
> [Don’t Worry, Smart Machines Will Take Us With Them; Why Human Intelligence and AI will Co-Evolve](http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/dont-worry-smart-machines-will-take-us-with-them?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication) – Stephen Hsu at Nautilus
> [Why Are There Any Jobs Still Left? Technology Eliminates Jobs, Not Work](https://reason.com/blog/2015/08/28/why-are-there-any-jobs-still-left) – Reason
> [Securing Today’s Data Against Tomorrow’s Quantum Computers](http://www.technologyreview.com/news/539441/securing-todays-data-against-tomorrows-quantum-computers/) – MIT Technology Review; Related: [NSA Plans for a Post-Quantum World](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/08/nsa_plans_for_a.html) – Schneier on Security
> [A Bit of Internet History, or How Two Members of Congress Helped Create a Trillion or So Dollars of Value](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/08/27/a-bit-of-internet-history-or-how-two-members-of-congress-helped-create-a-trillion-or-so-dollars-of-value/) – David Post in The Washington Post
> [The Web We Have to Save: The Rich, Diverse, Free Web that I Loved — and Spent Years in an Iranian Jail For — is Dying; Why is Nobody Stopping It?](https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426) – Medium
> [What Ever Happened to Google Books?](http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-ever-happened-to-google-books) – Tim Wu at The New Yorker
> [DIY Tractor Repair Runs Afoul Of Copyright Law](http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/17/432601480/diy-tractor-repair-runs-afoul-of-copyright-law) – NPR
> #### General Interest
> [We Need a David Carr Portable Companion; Here’s the first Draft](https://medium.com/backchannel/we-need-a-david-carr-portable-companion-89f54fda0b33) – Karen Wickre at BackChannel/Medium
> [Harvard Linguist Points out the 58 Most Commonly Misused Words and Phrases](http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/ZZ/20150908/BUSINESS/309089909/?Start=1) – MetroWest Daily News on [Steven Pinker](http://stevenpinker.com/publications/sense-style-thinking-persons-guide-writing-21st-century)’s book, [The Sense of Style](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670025852/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0670025852&linkCode=as2&tag=thebusiinsi-20&linkId=XTLTCO2LLUJIO43B)
> How to Fix Twitter: [Twitter’s 140-character Limit Doesn’t Get You Better Writing](http://scripting.com/2015/09/10/the140charLimitDoesntGetYouBetterWriting.html) – Dave Winer; [Why Twitter Must Blow Past 140](http://scripting.com/2015/09/03/whyTwitterMustBlowBy140.html) – Dave Winer; [Should Twitter Lose the 140-character Limit or Would that be Suicide?](http://fortune.com/2015/09/03/twitter-140-characters/) – Mathew Ingram at Fortune; [The Network’s the Thing](http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2015/9/1/when-the-network-is-mature) – Eugene Wei
> [Richard Stallman: How I Do My Computing](https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html) – Stallman.org
> Two from BuzzFeed: [Scientists Are Hoarding Data And It’s Ruining Medical Research](http://www.buzzfeed.com/bengoldacre/deworming-trials) – Ben Goldacre; [Here’s What Actually Gets Terrorists To Tell The Truth — And It’s Not Torture](http://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/torture-doesnt-work) – Peter Aldhous