Recommended:
Law, Tech and Policy
Why It’s Hard to Sue the NSA: You Have to Prove It Spied on You – Wired
Tech Companies May be our Best Hope for Resisting Government Surveillance – Ryan Calo at Fusion; and his related academic paper: Can Americans Resist Surveillance?
A New Design (Indistinguishability Obfuscation or IO) for Cryptography’s Black Box – Quanta
Don’t Worry, Smart Machines Will Take Us With Them; Why Human Intelligence and AI will Co-Evolve – Stephen Hsu at Nautilus
Why Are There Any Jobs Still Left? Technology Eliminates Jobs, Not Work – Reason
Securing Today’s Data Against Tomorrow’s Quantum Computers – MIT Technology Review; Related: NSA Plans for a Post-Quantum World – Schneier on Security
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
What Ever Happened to Google Books? – Tim Wu at The New Yorker
DIY Tractor Repair Runs Afoul Of Copyright Law – NPR
General Interest
We Need a David Carr Portable Companion; Here’s the first Draft – Karen Wickre at BackChannel/Medium
Harvard Linguist Points out the 58 Most Commonly Misused Words and Phrases – MetroWest Daily News on Steven Pinker’s book, The Sense of Style
How to Fix Twitter: Twitter’s 140-character Limit Doesn’t Get You Better Writing – Dave Winer; Why Twitter Must Blow Past 140 – Dave Winer; Should Twitter Lose the 140-character Limit or Would that be Suicide? – Mathew Ingram at Fortune; The Network’s the Thing – Eugene Wei
Richard Stallman: How I Do My Computing – Stallman.org
Two from BuzzFeed: Scientists Are Hoarding Data And It’s Ruining Medical Research – Ben Goldacre; Here’s What Actually Gets Terrorists To Tell The Truth — And It’s Not Torture – Peter Aldhous