Today's links
- Big Tech distorts our discourse: No mind-control required.
- How the IoT reinforces gentrification: Smart doorbells and predictive policing are fully automated karens.
- Private equity goes mainstream: If you're gonna loot, you MUST also asset-strip.
- What to do about the police: 15 concrete things that should be done to reform American policing, right now.
- Masks work: Source control is a thing.
- Walmart's crummy anti-theft AI: Employees blow the whistle on their employers' credulous machine learning procurements.
- GOP lawmaker hid his diagnosis from Democrats: Andrew Lewis wandered around Pennsylvania's statehouse, shedding virus particles.
- Canadians newsrooms restructure as co-ops: And readers can join!
- Get a peronalized, signed Poesy the Monster Slayer: Dark Delicacies will ship you copies signed by me and the original Poesy.
- This day in history: 2005, 2019
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading