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Tag: edgenuity

Pluralistic: 03 Sep 2020


Today's links

  • Big Car says Right to Repair will MURDER YOU: You wouldn't download a car.
  • Algorithmic grading: Another weapon of math destruction.
  • Snowden vindicated: NSA spying was illegal.
  • Coronavirus is over (if we want it): All we have to do is reform our entire health-care system.
  • Rest in Power, David Graeber: Occupy, Debt, Utopia of Rules, Bullshit Jobs.
  • Hedge fund managers trouser 64%: 2-and-20 is a fiction.
  • Corporate spooks track you "to your door": SDKs are trojan horses.
  • This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
  • Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on September 3, 2020Tags Alliance for Automotive Innovation, atul gowande, ballot initiatives, Coalition for Safe and Secure Data, dana simmons, david graeber, domestic surveillance, edgenuity, education, epidemiology, finance, fud, graeber, health care, hedge funds, hyas, locational privacy, mass surveillance, Massachusetts, nsa, obits, pedagogy, question 1, right to repair, rule of law, snowden, surveillance, testing, threat intelligence, weapons of math destruction, x-mode

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