Today's links

Email sabbaticals: I'm going offline until next year.
Chaos Communications Congress: Finally a way to do CCC without making your family furious.
Landmark US financial transparency law: Beginning of the end for the US onshore-offshore industry.
Rogues' Galleries and facial recognition: Self-fulfilling prophecies at the core of white supremacist policing.
Jan 1 is Public Domain Day for 1925: Gatsby, Dalloway, Buster Keaton, Ma Rainey, et al.
This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Today's links

Commercial real-estate's looming collapse: Highly leveraged REITs and extinction-level events don't mix.
Test-proctoring software worsens systemic bias: Also pedagogically bankrupt and run by corrupt, petty shitheads.
This day in history: 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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