Link Post - How To Avoid Black Mirror
WIRED - With the number of high profile pushbacks against government contracts, especially those law enforcement and military related, at both Google and Microsoft ethical statements were inevitable. Ethical OS appears to be the first such statement, addressing everything from privacy to game addiction. You can read the entire set of . . .
Link Post - Roman Geeks
Mental Floss - Archeologists try and determine the use of a Roman bronze dodecahedron. The article posits a few possibilities, but I like the idea of a game: Roman geeks leaving their detritus behind for us to figure out how to play.
Link Post - Fake News Wars And Regulation
Monday Note - The fact that this article closes with the idea that EU's failure to regulate Facebook is at the center of the problem betrays the short-sighted way we are approaching this problem. Moving the burden of determining the "accuracy" of news sources to a corporation is an inadequate solution, but not as terrible as . . .
Link Post - Why The Web Doesn't Work For You
Pixel Envy - This is a great essay on why despite our tech being better the web always seems kinda crappy. TL;DR version is that analytics and tracking have turned all your network and computing speed against you.
Link Post - Landscape Books
Washington Post - Vlog brother, Crash Course creator, and bestselling author of Lifetime stories for young adults John Green is experimenting with tiny versions of his titles. There have been a lot of experiments in publishing to reassert the book as a physical object, to ensure it isn't just something you can replicate on a phone or . . .
Link Post - Taking Heads For The Culture War
Whatever - Scalzi makes some good points here, but I feel that his criticism is a little narrow. This isn't one of those "both sides" things, I just think that the culture war combines with social media in a way that encourages people to be their worst selves in pursuit of winning. I shared out an episode of You Are Not So Smart . . .
Link Post - Apple Ends Affiliate Program
Touch Arcade - Though I put a lot of affiliate links on here, this isn't a business that people rely on to pay rent. It's barely a business. Touch Arcade has done more to legitimize mobile gaming as more than freemium gimmicks, and seeing them go would be a big loss. Until the Ad market gets healthier and safer, I'm not sure what . . .