«I wake up at four to some old-timey dubstep spewing from my pillows. The lights are flashing. My alarm clock is blasting Skrillex or Deadmau5 or something, I don’t know. You see, my house has a virus again.»

From Weekly Filet #169, in July 2014.

The Nightmare on Connected Home Street

Wired

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Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers

The Verge

Auto Correct

The New Yorker

Privacy as an ethical problem in the computer society

The European Graduate School

Helsinki’s ambitious plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 years

The Guardian

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