McFilter: October 2015 Archives

October 26, 2015

We Need the Right to Repair Our Gadgets. Manufacturers could and should do better. At the least, they shouldn't be allowed to actively prevent repair.
Fortunate People Say No.
Emergency, stealth or story. A couple of links to great talks about government, infrastructure and the institutions we need for the modern age.
Code for Liverpool. An embryonic movement to encourage (and implement) more useful tech, tools and civic hacking in Liverpool.
Choose Boring Technology. Spend your tech innovation tokens wisely.

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Are you happy now? The uncertain future of emotion analytics. Computers are starting to guess how we're feeling from looking at us. Should we let them?
move fast & break nothing. A good treatise on software development.
Metafoundry 16: Fission-Fusion Society. Deb Chachra eloquently dismantling competition. "[Paul] Graham and I do agree on the disutility of competition, which I cordially despise. I hate how it’s considered to be a motivating force [...]"

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Haunted by Data. All of Maciej's talks are worth watching/reading and this is no exception. "[Data.] Don't collect it! [...] If you have to collect it, don't store it! [...] If you have to store it, don't keep it!"
as though everyone had value. "This competitive ideology seeps into and ruins everything. It makes every good contingent on that good being enjoyed by a small and shrinking few. As a guy, this competitive urge is a contagion, it gets in everywhere. I love guitars but hate guitar stores; I like lifting weights but I hate the weight room. Those places are poisoned by male competition and the male insecurity that attends it, almost inevitably.". Amen to that.
Turn off your f**king phone and talk to me! Sherry Turkle on why “I’m not the Darth Vader of social media”.

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Sara Hendren in Eyeo Festival 2015. A really good talk from Sara Hendren about design, engineering, art (and disability).
How we pass the buck. Not just a problem in advertising. It'd be good to find ways to reward taking responsibility rather than rewarding avoiding it.
Brian Eno's BBC Music John Peel Lecture. An excellent lecture about art and its place in the world. Worth watching by everyone, not just those into music or art.

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