Pluralistic: 27 Mar 2022

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Amazon's relentless personal data foot-dragging: A system's purpose is what it does.
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Pluralistic: 23 Mar 2022

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Facebook's genocide filters are really, really bad: An AI that can't recognize its own training data is a very, very bad AI.
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Pluralistic: 22 Mar 2022

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Ban surveillance advertising: EFF's technological and legal proposal for a surveillance-free internet.
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Pluralistic: 21 Mar 2022

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Podcasting "What Is Peak Indifference?": A theory of change.
To make Big Tech better, make it smaller: Decreasing the salience of tech's errors is as important as reducing their prevalence.
Brazil's "Remuneration Right" will strengthen Big Tech and Big Media: Fix ads, not snippets.
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Pluralistic: 20 Mar 2022

Today's links

Kathe Koja's Dark Factory: Taking Bohemia seriously.
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Pluralistic: 18 Mar 2022

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The market for carbon credit lemons: Bad money drives out good.
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Pluralistic: 17 Mar 2022

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Late stage capitalism is weird capitalism: A planned economy run by Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street.
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Pluralistic: 16 Mar 2022

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The role of prose quality in scholarship: Better-edited papers fare better in peer-reviewed journals.
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Pluralistic: 15 Mar 2022

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Fight inflation with a windfall profits tax: Step one: tar. Step two: ???
Russian "ESG" investments were always about financing invasions and murder: Enjoy your rouble-denominated coupons, assholes.
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Pluralistic: 14 Mar 2022

Today's links

Surprise billing's death-spiral may suck in untold patients: The best time to kill Envision Healthcare was before it started (the second best time is now).
Podcasting "Vertically Challenged": We need to investigate the companies Big Tech DOESN'T buy.
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