Links May 26-June 1 2019
Saturday April 1, 2019
Before I went to college, my grandfather sent me a cassette tape filled with his thoughts as a sort of “audio-letter” experiment. “Maybe one day you’ll work at The New York Times,” he said. “Maybe you’ll be the next Russell Baker.”
— Gregory Cowles (@GregoryCowles) January 23, 2019
There was only one.https://t.co/5wyG1gLFj3
I put them back. https://t.co/aEJLXqNBJ8
— Benjamin Dreyer (@BCDreyer) May 31, 2019
I mean is this an example of flexible legal doctrine or what. Looks totally responsive to the shift in public sentiment. https://t.co/7GWwRTA6XS
— Dina Srinivasan (@DinaSrinivasan) June 1, 2019
This is important and a good reminder of how Facebook and Google often escape liability under the Wiretap Act and Stored Communications Act when consumers allege privacy violations. https://t.co/FeniGz8sUm
— Dina Srinivasan (@DinaSrinivasan) May 30, 2019
Friday May 31, 2019
Six lessons learned from my deepfake research at Stanford. medium.com
Thursday May 30, 2019
"Counter culture: what we lose when shops disappear" ft.com
An Open Forum article says "Open Forum: Tech, not recalcitrant cities, is the root of our housing crisis" but I can't seem to login to see it even though I'm a subscriber. sfchronicle.com
These laws make police get public buy-in on surveillance tools: cnet.com
Federal Business Opportunities lists rapid DNA testing as an open private contractor requests. fbo.gov
‘He Started Calling Me Papa Again’: A Separated Migrant Father and Son Reunite After 378 Days Apart: texasmonthly.com
"CALmatters could only identify one state lawmaker who was not a homeowner—Assemblyman Todd Gloria, Democrat from San Diego." calmatters.org
A tool to download videos, probably should not use as Kondo would not approve. toolsforreporters.com
"Maad al-Zikry, a Yemeni photojournalist who was on the AP team that won the Pulitzer for International Reporting for its coverage of civil war in Yemen, was denied a visa to travel and therefore missed the ceremony." poynter.org
Single-use plastic banned last year at India airports. thebetterindia.com
"What I noticed was that 'wet lab' physics and chemistry experiments were replaced by screen simulations. Of course, screen simulations required no dexterity and always produced the 'expected' outcome. Real science requires dexterity and is messy--educationally so." nytimes.com
"I had a conversation about this about 10 years ago with a shop teacher. He said that kids in his class, given a sentence to write out and, let's say, 8 inches of line to fit it into, could not accurately judge how to space their writing. They lacked that kind of spatial awareness." nytimes.com
"And just like verbal language, he thinks it’s easier to acquire when you’re young: 'It’s much more difficult to get it when you’re 24, 25 or 26 than when you’re 4, 5 or 6.'" nytimes.com
"Medical schools are noticing a decline in students’ dexterity, possibly from spending time swiping screens rather than developing fine motor skills through woodworking and sewing." nytimes.com
"'I think [Facebook] have proven -- by not taking down something they know is false -- that they were willing enablers of the Russian interference in our election,' Pelosi told KQED News." engadget.com
Tuesday May 28, 2019
Feb 2018: Herrera asks court to invalidate state law that gives preferential treatment to Uber and Lyft; SB 182, which exempts most Uber and Lyft drivers from registration requirements that apply to other SF businesses and independent contractors, violates state constitution sfcityattorney.org
"Court rules Uber must turn over data on driver congestion, double parkers to San Francisco" sfexaminer.com
Monday May 27, 2019
"Give the gift of weekly historic letters from figures like Thomas Jefferson, Clara Barton, and George S. Patton." letterjoy.co
"it would take 158 years for the typical worker at most big companies to make what their CEOs did in 2018, seven years longer than if both were at 2017 pay levels." apnews.com
Sunday May 26, 2019
The bio on Politics WatchDog's Facebook "About" page omits the preceding 'a' article before the subject "snowflake" and reads convincingly in an eastern european accent: "Sometimes we will poke fun at both parties so don’t be snowflake." nolink
"YouTube is outpacing its social media rivals when it comes to curbing the spread of misinformation during breaking news events, while Facebook and Twitter are still struggling." thehill.com
"I wish it were only on par with the National Enquirer, but it is not merely a bit of allure when buying groceries. The endless stream intermixes personal bits from friends with various 'stories' -- true and not -- and it becomes challenging, even for thoughtful people, to distinguish which is what." nytimes.com
"As they headed down the road at 40 miles an hour to their birding location, Robinson heard what sounded like the buzzy call of a blue-winged warbler. Astonished, and a tad skeptical, that this young man could identify a bird from a brief chirp over the thrum of the engine, Worthington put the car in reverse, Robinson recalls." baynature.org
"With cost-to-print concerns completely mitigated, the Little Printer can be guiltlessly tasked to keep track of all sorts of information–digital Post-Its that Berg says sit somewhere between ephemeral and permanent objects." fastcompany.com
Plastic homes - "A Mexican engineer says he has an easy way to recycle the tons of plastic pollution that litter every corner of the planet. Ramon Espinoza says his company can convert the debris into strong sheets of 'plastic wood' for building homes, furniture and other objects. He says the formed plastic not only innovates, it also doesn't crack or degrade, so homes made of it could last for 150 years." earthweek.net
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