Pluralistic: Lies, damned lies, and Uber (29 Feb 2024)

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Lies, damned lies, and Uber: Uber wants to pay its Toronto drivers $2.50/hour (eh).
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Smart cities are neither, 2021 edition: "Whose Streets? Our Streets! (Tech Edition)."
End of the line for Reaganomics: The OG antitrust is back, baby!
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Surveillance electoralism: Comparing the surveillance of the Biden and Trump apps.
Blueleaks: Dox the police.
Virtual Ignite talks: Weds at 6PM.
Congress wants to read all your DMs: The EARN-IT Act doesn't mention encryption, but it still bans encryption.
Privacy in tracing tokens: Bunnie Huang's parameters for a privacy-respecting contact-tracing system.
A/B Seattle: Design your own urban grid.
Against AI phrenology: Stop publishing machine-learning "race science."
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