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Interesting Things on the Internet: June 23rd Edition

• UK intelligence forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents’ Facebook and Google use. So, AIUI, the Government would need a warrant to read an email I send someone, but not to read a private message sent via Facebook or Twitter...
• Anne, Sue, Bob and Nigel too, a short story about privacy, politics and the press. Part of the reason the previous link is an important, and disgraceful revelation.
• Be Nice Or Leave.
• Maptime: Changing culture in geospatial tech learning, one meetup at a time. I've been wrangling OpenStreetMap data to produce laser-cutter files of late, so rather envious of beginners mapping groups in other cities.
• Six steps to better business digital of things. I do wonder if the field that "Pretend Office is one of the best companies in the field that it’s in" is writing strategy documents for the council. Or maybe some other local companies...
• The sun does not rise: How magical thinking haunts our everyday language, and fossilised ideas live on in even the most sophisticated science
• Maximum Happy Imagination. Matt Jones pointing out how all these visionaries who look to disrupt everything always seem to stop shy of disrupting the consumer-capitalism environment itself...