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Interesting Things on the Internet: November 16th 2015

• Why I Quit Ordering From Uber-for-Food Start-Ups "We are alive at a time when huge systems—industrial, infrastructural—are being remade, and I think it’s our responsibility as we make choices both commercial and civic—it’s just a light responsibility, don’t stress—to extrapolate forward, and ask ourselves: Is this a system I want to live inside? Is this a system fit for humans?" Not just a choice for food startups.
• I do not share your consensus, and that’s fine. Ant Miller pointing out what should be, but seems not to be, the bleeding obvious.
• Does Facebook record conversations when it identifies the things I’m listening to or watching? Basically, yes. Although I see they've updated their FAQ to make it sound less creepy.
• Communicating DND, in a nice way. Good idea, that I should be implementing.
• A blog is your brain, over time, on the internet. Perfectly put.
• Resist and Thrive. "It feels like we’ve been auto-subscribed to a newsletter that’s sending increasingly depressing emails. How do we get off this ride?"
• Increase Your Options: A talk at Digibury Weekender 2015. A good talk from Anjali about technology for good.
• Basic income: how Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide project in the EU. Interesting experiments being proposed in Finland, and this is a good summary of some of the pros/cons.
• The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock. Really interesting piece on the organisational structure of Visa.