Pluralistic, your daily link-dose: 24 Feb 2020

Today's links

How "Authoritarian Blindness" kept Xi from dealing with coronavirus: Zeynep Tufekci in outstanding form.
The Snowden Archive: every publicly available Snowden doc, collected and annotated.
Key computer vision researcher quits: facial recognition is a moral quagmire.
My interview on adversarial interoperability: you can't shop your way out of late-stage capitalism.
81 Fortune 100 companies demand binding arbitration: monopoly and its justice system.
I'm coming to Kelowna! Canada Reads is bringing me to the BC interior, March 5.
A flat earther commits suicide by conspiracy theory: conspiracies are comorbid with corruption.
This day in history: 2019, 2015, 2010, 2005
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

Bloomberg's campaign NDA is a gag order that covers sexual abuse and other crimes: Bloomberg's lowest moment at the debate came when he fumfuhed over whether he'd release women from his corporate NDAs.
Private Equity has sabotaged every attempt to end emergency room "surprise billing": AKA, "Why didn't you ask your ambulance driver to shop around?"
The Parkland kids have launched a zine: "Unquiet" is a gorgeous, haunting zine from the March For Our Lives, debuted on Teen Vogue.
Tumblr's ad policy: you can't block ads because we don't live in a post-scarcity society.
Gopher shows us how adversarial interoperability was there from the start: the web's precursor depended on adversarial interop to win its place in history, and the web vanquished gopher with yet more adversarial interop
A line of hardcovers designed to double as decor accents: I want to hate this, but they're so pretty!
$2b later, Blue Apron is broke: incoming podcast apocalypse in 3, 2, 1….
Tour Cards Against Humanity's incredible board-game cafe: when amazing people spend amazing sums.
The team behind Frozen are making a musical out of Jen Wang's Prince and the Dressmaker: holy smokes, is this ever great news!
This day in history: 2019, 2015, 2010
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

The 2020 Nebula Award Finalists: a bumper crop of outstanding SF
Uber driver/sharecroppers drive like maniacs to make quota: subprime lending + gig economy = stay off the roads
Barclay's bankers forced to endure nagging work-computer spyware: the shitty technology adoption curve at work
Bernie Sanders leads in 10 out of 10 polls: but unless he can get a majority of pledged delegates, he'll be ratfucked by superdelegates
Bloomberg: kids only like Sanders because they're stupid: "Because our kids no longer learn civics in school they longer study Western history, they no longer read Western literature…"
"Secure erase" with a bolt-cutter: Jamie Zawinski doesn't mess around when it comes to getting rid of old hard drives.
Adding 2 inches of tape to a road-sign induces sudden 50mph acceleration in Teslas: Adversarial examples are unstoppable.
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading