Today's links

How to leak a Zoom meeting: Watermarks, tile randomization, and more.

Pandemics and peak indifference: Squandering history's most expensive lessons.

Planet Money's free Great Gatsby audiobook: The public domain in action.

Honor MLK day with the Internet Archive: A fabulous, open access trove.

Someone Comes to Town, Part 28: This week's podcast installment carries on my friendly dispute with Manuel Castells.

Facebook's community standards: JWZ's 0-follower, 0-post FB account was suspended.

This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2020

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

Today's links

Dems can and MUST fight police violence: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil…
Save Uncle Hugo's: Crowdfunding for Minneapolis's beloved, torched science fiction bookstore.
Ella Jones is Ferguson's new mayor: The city's first Black mayor.
Why protests become violent: Cops keep mashing the "be violent" button.
PPE vs riot gear: Revealed preference, revealed.
Zoom wants to help the FBI spy on you: Encryption is a luxury good.
Trivial-to-spoof UK contact tracing: A gift to identity thieves and fraudsters.
AT&T; will punish Disney+ viewers: Can you hear me now?
K-pop fandom pivots to human rights hacktivism: Flooding the zone with fancams.
This day in history: 2005, 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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