Links June 2-8 2019
Thursday April 6, 2019
When Work Is Disrupted by Digital Progress | As technology-driven job displacement accelerates, governments have a big role to play in managing its impact. governing.com
Wednesday April 5, 2019
Large Facebook investors call for CEO Mark Zuckerberg to give up chairman role: marketwatch.com
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Tech Regulation: bloomberg.com
1973: "Then the Court declared that freeing slaves would unconstitutionally violate the owners' right of property. Now it claims that forbidding abortions violates the mother's 'right of privacy.'" nytimes.com
1973: "The Governor signed with out comment the bill banning commercial abortion‐referral services. It was introduced aft er hearings held by Attorney General Lefkowitz and the Senate's Health Committee that disclosed many such serv ices were charging women fees for referrals to doctors and hospitals for abortions." nytimes.com
"As social networks expand the use of AI-powered image-recognition filters, experts warn that attackers are finding ways to fool them" wsj.com
Technology and globalization are two of five reasons this article lists for widening inequality, which explains why working-class people may have voted against tech- and trade-friendly Democrats in 2016. cnbc.com
Tuesday April 4, 2019
State department "extreme vetting" says no to traveling musicians: sfchronicle.com
Lectures on copyright and appropriation are helpful, but would be more helpful if the videos were transcribed. But this staid law professor explains copyright in music, using a George Harrison song and Funkadelic's "Get Off Your Ass and Jam" sample used by NWA, which sparked a lawsuit that escalated to federal court. copyx.org
Monday April 3, 2019
Second Line Vinyl, the first record-pressing plant in Oakland since the 1930s, is going out of business. So are several record stores, including Park Boulevard Records "the only specialty rap and hip-hop store in Oakland" opened since 2015; Champion Sound Records, a specialty record shop for soul and dancehall music in Oakland, was priced out of its space and closed in January; and Reid’s Records, California’s oldest record shop and one of the oldest African American businesses in the Bay Area, said in February it would close its South Berkeley shop in the fall. datebook.sfchronicle.com
"Hiring and promotion decisions are largely focused on culture ‘fit’, rather than culture ‘add’." kqed.org
"For years, U.S. publishers have relied on China for low-cost, high-capacity printing of four-color books, coffee table editions, Bibles and other standards of the trade and education market." apnews.com
This Federal Judge Would Really Like Facebook To Be Consistent When It Comes To Privacy: abovethelaw.com
Sunday April 2, 2019
Clock runs down for privacy legislation: axios.com
The internet's wild west days are coming to a close. The Atlantic invited industry trade groups to talk about upcoming trends in privacy. theatlantic.com
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