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Pluralistic: 12 May 2020


Today's links

  • The right's theories about human behavior are bankrupt: Immortan Joe is a shitty behavioral economist.
  • Adjacent, similar NYC neighborhoods with wildly different outcomes: Early warning saved Flushing, Queens.
  • Honey in a glue dispenser: Easy spreading ahoy.
  • Iceland's world-beating coronavirus app didn't help much: Shoe-leather contact tracing beats automated exposure notification.
  • Thunderspy: a devastating attack on Thunderbolt: Evil Maid, 2020 edition.
  • Talking Canada Reads and Radicalized: My chat with Canada Reads American Style.
  • Plane ticket refunds (without airline cooperation): Call your credit card issuer.
  • This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
  • Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on May 12, 2020Tags air canada, aviation, biostatistics, Björn Ruytenberg, business, canada reads, contact tracing, corona, epidemiology, evil maid, exponential curves, exposure notification, flushing, food, gadgets, honey, iceland, infosec, japan, keep calm and carry on, not food, nyc, podcasts, queens, radicalized, social cohesion, solnit, spoken word, the nasty party, thunderbolt, thunderbolt 3, thunderspy, tories, travel, uk, ukpoli

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