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Can science break its plastic addiction? https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/can-science-break-its-plastic-addiction/

This is a story about whether men are singing higher in pop music https://www.visualisingdata.com/2019/11/best-of-the-visualisation-web-august-2019/

Online politics needs to be cleaned up – but not just by Facebook and Twitter https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/11/online-politics-facebook-twitter-social-media-political-parties

Online politics needs to be cleaned up – but not just by Facebook and Twitter https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/11/online-politics-facebook-twitter-social-media-political-parties

CHANGE YOUR DEVICE NAME
At some point, you may have “named” your phone for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or both – or maybe the name was automatically generated during setup https://datadetoxkit.org/en/privacy/essentials#step-1

Palantir, the secretive data behemoth linked to the Trump administration, expands into Europe https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/palantir-the-secretive-data-behemoth-linked-to-the-trump-administration-expands-into-europe/

The Gendersec Curricula is a resource that introduces a holistic, feminist perspective to privacy and digital security trainings, available in ENGLISH, SPANISH and PORTUGUESE https://tacticaltech.org/#/news/gendersec-training-curricula

The good despot: Technology firms’ interventions in the public sphere https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0963662519879368

RT @anitaycheng@twitter.com

After doing @nkjemisin@twitter.com’s worldbuilding workshop, this piece of missing data sets at #TheGlassRoom has become extra poignant. What are we purposely ignoring? #WIRED25

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/anitaycheng/status/1193290421780111360

RT @infointel@twitter.com

Such a though provoking piece by thistimeitsmimi . really stuck in my head from The Glass Room at #Wired25 this year. @ Commonwealth Club of California https://www.instagram.com/p/B4tBv-gAU3z/?igshid=r3l5do6mpxtu

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/infointel/status/1193673565259882497

RT @realolifrost@twitter.com

For the last 3 weeks I’ve been running a promotion that offers you £15 to refer a friend to be my friend. While its been on display at #TheGlassRoom exhibit in San Francisco, I have obtained 100s of potential friendships that I will develop over the coming years…
@Info_Activism@twitter.com https://twitter.com/realolifrost/status/1184137079036493824

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/realolifrost/status/1193609263031169026

RT @iamnicoroxe@twitter.com

💉 A Data Detox for a healthier, balanced digital life, via @Info_Activism@twitter.com
Everyday steps you can take to control your digital privacy, security, and wellbeing in ways that feel right to you at https://datadetoxkit.org/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/iamnicoroxe/status/1193666380064841729

Yes, hyena robots are scary. But they're also a cunning marketing ploy
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/10/hyena-robots-marketing-boston-dynamics

I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds
of Trackers Followed Me. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/23/opinion/data-internet-privacy-tracking.html

Chrome is not minding your privacy. Here's how to help it https://www.cnet.com/how-to/chrome-is-not-minding-your-privacy-heres-how-to-help-it/

Online Voting is a Really, Really Bad Idea https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/online-voting-problems/

Zygmunt Bauman: “Social media are a trap” https://elpais.com/elpais/2016/01/19/inenglish/1453208692_424660.html

Microsoft's Bing still showed child porn, as tech firms struggle with issue https://www.cnet.com/news/microsofts-bing-still-showed-child-porn-as-tech-firms-struggle-with-issue/

Google’s big plan to fight tech addiction: A piece of paper
Paper Phone is not a joke - it’s part of the company’s “digital well-being experiments.” Digital detox experts aren’t having it. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614669/googles-big-plan-to-fight-tech-addiction-a-piece-of-paper/

A new institution on the block: On platform urbanism and Airbnb citizenship https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444819884377