Digital Topologies

A scrapbook about digital culture

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Is AI a platform shift or a paradigm shift? With Benedict Evans

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Amy Webb Launches 2024 Emerging Tech Trend Report | SXSW 2024

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Can We Mitigate Cryptocurrencies’ Externalities David Rosenthal  Stanford Seminar

Bitcoin is notorious for consuming as much electricity as the Netherlands, but there are around 10,000 other cryptocurrencies, most using similar infrastructure and thus also in aggregate consuming unsustainable amounts of electricity. This is far from the only externality the cryptocurrency mania imposes upon the world. Among the others are that Bitcoin alone generates as much e-waste as the Netherlands, that cryptocurrencies enable a $5.2B/year ransomware industry, that they have disrupted supply chains for GPUs, hard disks, SSDs and other chips, that they have made it impossible for web services to offer free tiers, and that they are responsible for a massive crime wave including fraud, theft, tax evasion, funding of rogue states such as North Korea, drug smuggling, and even armed robbery. In return they offer no social benefit beyond speculation. Is it possible to mitigate these societal harms? 

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How the United States Lost to Hackers

America’s biggest vulnerability in cyberwarfare is hubris.

How the United States Lost to Hackers

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The Art Of Warez  Oliver Payne

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“Data Driven Society” Presented by Surya Mattu, artist, engineer, and journalist, at “Museums and New Intelligences”, November 2, 2018.

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Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report | Code 2018 At the 2018 Code Conference, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Mary Meeker released 294 slides in rapid succession, covering everything from smartphone behavior in the U.S. to tech company competition in China. 

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James Mickens, Harvard University Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? A: Because Keynote Speakers Make Bad Life Decisions and Are Poor Role Models

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The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History

Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.

The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History

Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.

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Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras

Beijing is putting billions of dollars behind facial recognition and other technologies to track and control its citizens.

Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras

Beijing is putting billions of dollars behind facial recognition and other technologies to track and control its citizens.

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“SKAM,” the Radical Teen Drama That Unfolds One Post at a Time

Is a narrative built from Facebook comments, texts, and Instagram Stories the future of TV?

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How markets coopted free software’s most powerful weapon (LibrePlanet ‘18 Keynote) — Benj. Mako Hill

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Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control?

Technology is starting to behave in intelligent and unpredictable ways that even its creators don’t understand. As machines increasingly shape global events, how can we regain control?

Technology is starting to behave in intelligent and unpredictable ways that even its creators don’t understand. As machines increasingly shape global events, how can we regain control?

by James Bridle

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A visualisation of the length of Terms and Conditions for different social networks. It’s enough to put you off Instagram for life! HT https://twitter.com/hailmika/status/992391607302451200

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