Why Your iPhone Selfies Don’t Look Like Your Face - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/your-iphone-selfies-dont-look-like-your-face/578353/

Star Wars is Really a Cautionary Tale About Devoting All Technological Advancements to Death | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/12/17/star-wars-is-really-a-cautionary-tale-about-devoting-all-technological-advancements-to-death/

A Professional Safecracker Reveals His Craft - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/professional-safecracker-reveals-his-craft/577897/

It’s time for a Bill of Data Rights - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612588/its-time-for-a-bill-of-data-rights/

Building Technology https://communitytechnology.github.io/

Tumblr’s adult-content ban could doom it with fandom communities. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/tumblr-fandom-adult-content-ban-livejournal.html

William Gibson: Technology, Science Fiction & the Apocalypse - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlvle5YBv4

The Little Regulation That Will Make a Big Change in How You Do Business: Department of Commerce to Establish New Export Controls on Emerging Technologies - Lexology https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=205f4c5f-17c7-4d18-9967-a01983883706

Heads up, apparently there are gonna be export restrictions on neural net, reinforcement learning, computer vision, NLP, & similar research done in the US: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/19/2018-25221/review-of-controls-for-certain-emerging-technologies

Martin Heidegger and Günther Anders on Technology: On Ray Kurzweil, Fritz Lang, and Transhumanism https://medium.com/amor-mundi/martin-heidegger-and-g%C3%BCnther-anders-on-technology-on-ray-kurzweil-fritz-lang-and-transhumanism-a48a4c123c09

It is not that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but that anything is indistinguishable from magic from the perspective of the sufficiently ignorant. Clarke assumes we will lose the red queen’s race with polymathy.

Band name of the day: human flesh technology

Constructive Technology Criticism Annotated Syllabus https://medium.com/tow-center/constructive-technology-criticism-annotated-syllabus-b7b46862cd20

What’s Wrong With ‘X Is Dead’ - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/08/whats-wrong-with-x-is-dead/61663/

Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism - Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/constructive_technology_criticism.php/

Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/

Canon Cat Leap Technology : Information Appliance Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/CanonCatLeapTechnology

Trust and Complex Technology: The Cyborg’s Modern Bargain - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/11/23/trust-in-complex-technology-the-cyborgs-modern-bargain/

How YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Really Works - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-youtubes-algorithm-really-works/575212/

Cesar Sayoc and others on Twitter are behaving like bots. https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/cesar-sayoc-twitter-humans-behaving-bots.html

Amy Winehouse’s 2019 tour: why dead celebrity holograms keep happening - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/23/18010274/amy-winehouse-hologram-tour-controversy-technology

Language is a technology & we ought to start acting like it

“Rosie Pattern Language: Improving on 50-Year Old Regular Expression Technology” by Jamie Jennings - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTiYDrb0zg

Supermicro boards were so bug ridden, why would hackers ever need implants? | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/10/supermicro-boards-were-so-bug-ridden-why-would-hackers-ever-need-implants/

The Political Cost of the Chinese Hardware Hack - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/political-cost-chinese-hardware-hack/572383/

Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5172/juggalo-juggalette-facepaint-makeup-hack-beat-facial-recognition-technology

Can an AI Write a Novel? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/automated-on-the-road/571345/

Regarding Theory as Technology - Cyborgology https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/09/17/regarding-theory-as-technology/

No I know they’d like to study it harder, but now imagine something that’s both as ravenous as life and as competent as technology hitching a ride back up and escaping onto the interstellar stage, we’d lose that whole galaxy

You see, this planet has developed technology and life, remarkable really, problem is that all the probes we sent to study its biomechanosphere have so far either been eaten or shot down by local wildlife, so we’ve quarantined it

DSHR’s Blog: It Isn’t About The Technology https://blog.dshr.org/2018/01/it-isnt-about-technology.html

Researchers show Alexa “skill squatting” could hijack voice commands | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/08/researchers-show-alexa-skill-squatting-could-hijack-voice-commands/

The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it all went wrong - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611805/the-four-ways-that-ex-internet-idealists-explain-where-it-all-went-wrong/

This is what filter bubbles actually look like - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611807/this-is-what-filter-bubbles-actually-look-like/

Twitter’s new developer guidelines might end fun bot accounts. https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/twitters-new-developer-guidelines-might-end-fun-bot-accounts.html

Aligned AI: Has internalized human morals, but still has unforeseen transformative effects because any technology that powerful does that↵Super-aligned AI: Has internalized human morals, plus it has no transformative effects, really why was it created at all

What Silicon Valley won’t admit about technology and progress | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-silicon-valley-wont-admit-about-technology-and-progress

Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/

The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/

WTF #PayPal? “… as we have received notice that you are deceased… this breach is not capable of remedy.” https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44783779

Smart Toilets: Is the World Ready For Connected Lavatories? https://tedium.co/2018/07/05/smart-bathroom-technology-toilets/

Thinking Machine: Ramon Llull Inner Life of Advanced Technology Catholicism God Machine David Metcalfe http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theglobalcatholicreview/2018/06/gods-machine/

QOTD: “Like any extension of the human psyche, machines are scary things[…] When you take the scary human psyche and magnify it hundreds or thousands of times with technology, it’s really nightmarish”

Habeas Data excerpt: How a mugger helped create the modern NSA surveillance program. https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/habeas-data-excerpt-how-a-mugger-helped-create-the-modern-nsa-surveillance-program.html

A Mass of Copyrighted Works Will Soon Enter the Public Domain - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/copywritten-so-dont-copy-me/557420/

Are you really Facebook’s product? The history of a dangerous idea. https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/are-you-really-facebooks-product-the-history-of-a-dangerous-idea.html

countercomplex: Bringing magic back to technology http://viznut.fi/texts-en/magic_back_to_technology.html

countercomplex: Counteracting alienation with technological arts and crafts http://viznut.fi/texts-en/counteracting_tech_alienation.html

Hot take: If you believe technological determinism cannot be effectively resisted, then how much the projected trajectory benefits you personally determines where you fall on the scale from Kevin Kelley to the Unabomber

TIL that the technology for viewing US census data summaries is called DADS: https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/data_access_and_dissemination_system_dads.htm