Data Activism, Air Conditioning, Censorship, Fax, Tsundoku - Five Things - Issue #292

Facebook and Google made billions mining personal data, and fought off anyone who threatened to stop them. Then came a challenge in their own backyard.

The shopping mall, the office block, suburbs, museums, Hollywood, the Gulf cities – air conditioning powered them all. But has the time come to turn it off?

That's our dilemma in the time of hate speech.

Researchers have demonstrated that sending a single malicious fax is all it takes to break into a network.

Do you have a habit of picking up books which you never quite get around to reading? That's tsundoku.

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