Jason & Farah, cognitive science postdocs at Washington University, write, "We humans have always used our surroundings to extend our memory. But is the technology of today enhancing human memory,… Read the rest of the article: Crowdfunding research into memory and technology
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Cory Doctorow Glyn sez, "UK Deputy PM Nick Clegg has commissioned a review into the new intrusive capabilities of British intelligence agencies and the legal framework in which they operate."
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Cory Doctorow Patrick Rock, a Thatcherite who served as special advisor to UK Prime Minister David Cameron and played an influential role in the Prime Minister's national Internet censorship plan, has been… Read the rest of the article: David Cameron's porn-filter advisor arrested for possession of images of sexual abuse of children
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Cory Doctorow Here's a reading (MP3) of my latest Locus column, Cold Equations and Moral Hazard which considers the way that science fiction can manipulate our ideas about the technical necessity for… Read the rest of the article: Podcast: Cold Equations and Moral Hazard
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Cory Doctorow Maciej CegÅ‚owski's Webstock 2014 talk is called OUR COMRADE THE ELECTRON, and it's an inspired rant about the relationship of technology to power and coercion. It asserts that the decentralizing… Read the rest of the article: Our Comrade the Electron: technology as centralizer
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Cory Doctorow danah boyd has posted a free PDF of the full text of her must-read book It's Complicated, the best book about young people and the Internet I've read to date.… Read the rest of the article: Free download of danah boyd's must-read book "It's Complicated"
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Cory Doctorow Exactly what it sounds like: 46 calories per 200ml.
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Cory Doctorow In the 1970s, British men could (apparently) rent hair. Unless this is a parody ad that has lost its context — does anyone know? Update: Mark beat me to this,… Read the rest of the article: Hair rental club for men
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Cory Doctorow Phil Torrone and Limor Fried send us the latest episode of Collin's Lab: "Learn how to bring a circuit from schematic to reality using a solderless breadboard – then make… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO make a solderless circuit
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Cory Doctorow To clarify, the @HSCIC story that's coming is, I believe, infinitely worse than patient hospital records being uploaded to Google BigQuery — ben goldacre (@bengoldacre) March 3, 2014 PA Consulting,… Read the rest of the article: Full NHS hospital records uploaded to Google servers, "infinitely worse" story to come
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Cory Doctorow One year ago today Smoothing 3D prints with acetone and without patent violations: Austin Wilson and Neil Underwood from the North Carolina makerspace Fablocker invented a great, simple process for smoothing… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: Smoothing 3D prints with acetone; In Praise of the Sales Force; Useful Aramaic phrases for Last Temptation viewers
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Cory Doctorow My latest Locus column is "Cold Equations and Moral Hazard", an essay about the way that our narratives about the future can pave the way for bad people to create,… Read the rest of the article: Cold Equations and Moral Hazard: science fiction considered harmful to the future
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Cory Doctorow "Be More Tea," an ad for Lipton's tea, is sheer genius: Kermit finds himself tempest-tossed in a hard, uncaring version of Manhattan where everyone is an avatar of Animal. Through… Read the rest of the article: Muppets tea-ad is brilliant (shame about the tea)
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Cory Doctorow One year ago today Twenty Four Standard Causes of Human Misjudgement: Classic 1995 speech by Charlie Munger (much cited, and transcribed here in PDF), in which Munger (a respected investor… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: 24 Causes of Human Misjudgement; Computer polish; Water on Mars
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Cory Doctorow MC Chris, creator of such immortal nerdcore classics as Fett's Vette and Aqua Teen Hunger Force, has a new double album out: Foreverrr. Foreverrr is an insane, lewd, lacivious, profane… Read the rest of the article: MC Chris's "Foreverrr" – porny, Ghostbusters-y nerdcore
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Cory Doctorow The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a secretly negotiated trade agreement let by the USA. Though the text is secret, enough drafts have leaked to make it clear that one of its… Read the rest of the article: US Trade Rep can't figure out if Trans-Pacific Partnership will protect the environment
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Cory Doctorow The Trustycon folks have uploaded over seven hours' worth of talks from their event, an alternative to the RSA security conference founded by speakers who quit over RSA's collusion with… Read the rest of the article: Trustycon: how to redesign NSA surveillance to catch more criminals and spy on a lot fewer people
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Cory Doctorow Molly Crabapple sez, "I wrote this piece about a program in Phoenix called Project ROSE arrests sex workers in massive raids and brings them to a church, where they are… Read the rest of the article: Phoenix cops arrest prostitutes, detain them without trial in churches, pressure them to take deals without access to lawyers
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Cory Doctorow Last August, I posted about a lawsuit brought by Larry Lessig and the Electronic Frontier Foundation against Australia's Liberation Music, who hold the rights to "Lisztomania," a song by the… Read the rest of the article: Phoenix on Lessig and Lisztomania: "We Support Fair Use of Our Music!"
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Cory Doctorow The National Center for Public Policy Research, group of climate deniers with stock in Apple, tried to force a motion to terminate Apple's use of renewable energy (and failed miserably).… Read the rest of the article: Tim Cook to climate deniers: get bent