Today's links

The technology of Uyghur oppression: COIN and CVE with Chinese characteristics.

Transparency without recourse: Keynote for tomorrow's Transparency By Design conference.

How covid spreads: A tale in four charts.

Why SCOTUS upheld LGBTQ rights: Time for some game theory.

Hackers on Planet Earth: HOPE 2020 is happening, and I'm keynoting.

Talking Radicalized with Podside Picnic: Science fiction, economics, politics, writing craft and beyond.

Giant worry-stone: Machinist Chris Bathgate upscales his worry stone.

This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019

Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

Today's links

Hackers on Planet Earth, in the cloud: HOPE will not be cancelled.
Climate and machine learning: Machine learning is roasting the planet.
Seeking Fitbit owners' stories: Help EFF explain why the Google takeover is wrong.
Software secrecy: Code is (bad) law.
Grocer won't show employees results from mandatory temp-checks: Coronavirus theater, class war edition.
Bill Clinton sings "Baby Got Back": Speech synthesis is just sublimely weird.
Webinar on Controlled Digital Lending and the pandemic: Talking about the Internet Archive, this Friday.
Google vows no custom AI for oil and gas: Reversing its 2018 position, which was garbage.
Re-positive coronavirus cases are not infectious: Finally, we catch a break.
Ifixit's medtech repair manual trove is full to bursting: Right to Repair, pandemic edition.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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