Pluralistic: 19 Apr 2021

Today's links

The G(AN)-8: Shardcore's questing AI tries to locate world leaders in a sprawling data-set.
Facebook's tonsils: The traumatic lives of Facebook's moderators.
Podcasting How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Part three.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

AT&T will lay off thousands more: After promising that Trump's $20B tax-break would create jobs.
Cuba is a vaccine powerhouse: A vaccine for the Global South.
Sacklers to use Purdue bankruptcy to escape justice: Crime pays.
AI has a GIGO problem: Bias-laundering at mass scale.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Monopoly so fragile: Sharpening the contradictions in the Suez Canal.
Noble Lies: "Experts" aren't experts on when to lie.
Big Salmon's aquaturf: Cheaper for fish farms to smear scientists than to clean up their act.
Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results: Podcasting my Locus column on why machine learning won't lead to artificial intelligence.
This day in history: 2006, 2010, 2016, 2020
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Criti-Hype: Tech bros will settle for "evil genius."
Right to Repair is back for 2021: Will Apple sabotage this one too?
The free market and rent-seeking: Unauthorized bread and poor doors.
This day in history: 2011, 2016
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Deep Reckonings: Using deepfakes to conjure a contrafactual reality in which monsters confront their legacies.
Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results: The limits of theory-free statistical inference.
How Audible robs indie audiobook creators: I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
Get an extra vote: Reminders from friends and family to vote have a bigger effect on turnout than anything campaigns do.
A hopeful future: Optimism and pessimism are both fatalism.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

IDing anonymized cops with facial recognition: Privacy for the powerless, transparency for the powerful.
ENDSARS: Global protests over Nigeria's murdering special police.
Companies target robots in disclosures: Sentiment analysis is finally useful for something.
US border cruelty, powered by Google cloud: IBM at Auschwitz.
Free the law of Wisconsin: Carl Malamud wants you to read Wisconsin's jury instructions.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

In Search Of A Flat Earth: From Flat Earth to Qanon, the rise of murderous cults.
A cryptographic mystery solved: How a Cuban numbers station's decade-long opsec fail blew Russian spies' cover.
Youtube's war on algorithmic radicalization: Selective rabbit-hole elimination is HARD.
The Hardware Lottery: Chip architecture is the secret legislator of machine learning.
This day in history: 2015
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Hard Wired: Robot rights are human rights.
Calavera masks: John Picacio wants to help you ride out the plague as a sugar-skull.
Classic, hand-lettered electronics textbook: The story of Forrest M Mims, III's "Getting Started in Electronics."
Bayer-Monsanto is in deep trouble: Destructive, reckless mergers are part of the Curse of Bigness.
Recapping Little Brother and Homeland: Nudging a generation of early-stage Oppenheimers.
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Rewarding CEOs for failure: Heads they win, tails we lose.
DIY giant chalk: Tempura paint, plaster of paris, and water.
Fairness and machine learning: Open access computer science textbook.
Facebook overrules its own fact-checkers: The far right works the refs.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Full Employment, the podcast edition: There's no AI employment crisis, but there IS a climate emergency.
Life as a fake Amazon reviewer: A security economics case-study.
Don't talk about cancer on FB: Facebook greets cancer diagnoses with a torrent of quack remedy ads.
Privacy as a right, not a product: Putting a pricetag on your data makes you less private.
Primary Richie Neal [D-MA]: Meet the powerful "Democrat" who defends surprise billing and zero taxes for private equity.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading