- A podcast on tribe and belonging (in contrast to “neoliberal” life)
- Ethereum (a crypto-currency) will cut its energy use by 99 percent.
- China’s share-bike schemes are crashing and burning
- The podcast revolution is here to stay.
- A profile of the Chinese who censor the country
- Read this review of Surveillance capitalism: “Behavior modification is the thread that ties today’s search engines, social networks, and smartphone trackers to tomorrow’s facial-recognition systems, emotion-detection sensors, and artificial-intelligence bots. What the industries of the future will seek to manufacture is the self.” Related: Facebook knows everything about you when it sells adverts but not when politicians are asking about manipulation. I’m betting they are lying about how much they know and don’t know.
- Your friends may not be happy is you try to live without a smart phone.
- Forget counting calories. Eat good food.
- People have a hard time understanding logic and data. That doesn’t mean — IMO — that they should be voting on policies that affect the rest of us.
- How the Ostrom School limited Tragedies of the Commons