Today's links

• John Oliver's comprehensive explanation of the rot in US policing: It's in every bone and organ.
• Cox violates the Geneva Conventions: The throttling will continue until morale improves.
• Paramount's Unproduced Screenplays: A core sample of 1,000 ideas from the vault.
• Police budgets are out of control: "More than the city spends on health, homelessness, youth development and workforce development combined."
• Auditing Omniballot, a terrible e-voting system: Paper ballots, marked with pencils, accept no imitations.
• Who are Dark Basin?: Outing the cybermercenaries who attacked Net Neutrality and anti-Exxon activists.
• NYPD's structural racism: Bulk of NYPD human rights complaints come from Black and Latinx youth.
• IBM kills facial recognition program: But the problem with facial recognition isn't just "bias."
• Nutrition labels for IoT: Only works if there's competition.
• This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2019
• Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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