Links Nov 2, 2019 - Dec 31, 2019
Saturday, Nov 30, 2019
Oct 14, 2019: Tesla’s Autopilot Could Save the Lives of Millions, But It Will Kill Some People First | The complicated ethics of Elon Musk’s grand autonomous vehicle experiment. bloomberg.com
Oct 20, 2019: Driverless cars are stuck in a jam | Blame Silicon Valley hype—and the limits of AI: economist.com
Oct 20, 2019: How to hide a billion dollars - A guide for kleptocrats worried by foreign prosecutors: economist.com
Wednesday, Nov 27, 2019
"This limitation also reminds Alphaville of something that has been bugging us over the past decade or so — the lack of discussion of what we’ve lost from the transition of owning content, to streaming it." ftalphaville.com
“'Not only can you not fire Mark Zuckerberg, you can’t fire his kids or his kid’s kids.'” nytimes.com
"t has become evident over the last few years that the wealthiest individuals in Europe and America, who we’re used to thinking of as anti-state libertarians, have in fact abandoned free markets in favour of state-supported monopolies; they wish to be oligarchs." byelinetimes.com
Tuesday, Nov 26, 2019
"'Structural housing issues do have a real effect on private relationships,' says Wilkinson. 'They have basically eroded our privacy.' And that may mean we not only have less sex – but worse sex, too." theguardian.com
"As Housing Bills Collapse, Talk of Ballot Initiative Grows Louder | Gov convenes emergency ideas summit as Portantino maneuvers to block reform" californiaglobe.com
Wednesday, Nov 20, 2019
very upsetting @boredpanda - especially when these sites think it’s even ok to monetize stories about your friend’s death without any consent from the family https://t.co/v2GguzzKiq
— tiffany (@tiffanyxjiang) November 20, 2019
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
"Mr. Xi and other top government officials reveal in these papers a conviction that the Soviet Union collapsed because of ideological laxity and spineless leadership, and a top security official attributed terrorist attacks in Britain to the British government’s “excessive emphasis on ‘human rights above security.’”" nytimes.com
Layoffs are expected soon at Gannet, or is it McClatchy, or both? And this site "LocalFix" is telling people how to fund their own local news institutions. tinyletter.com
It bothers me when people equate Facebook with Google, as Bob Hoffman does in "Google Begging for Trouble" over recent relevations that Google is aggregating and processing health data, which is done legally obeying all existing HIPPA laws. createsend.com
This is a map of California single-family homes still owned by LLCs. amptiup.carto.com
"On Wednesday, May 29, 2019, Senate Bill 529 (María Elena Durazo, D-Los Angeles), which aimed to prevent landlord retaliation against tenants who form tenant associations, failed to pass the California Senate by one vote. The measure, sponsored by Tenants Together, required 21 votes to pass the Senate." tenantstogether.org
Today is Rage Against The Machines Day at supermarkets everywhere. Shoppers are asked to boycott the self-checkout terminals and take their groceries to checkout lines served by our fellow human beings, forcing the stores to staff them properly.
— Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, News Guild (@DanRodricks) November 16, 2019
Question for my fellow book worms:
— WG Saraband 🏴🇵🇹🏳️🌈 (@wgsaraband) November 14, 2019
I first got an ereader in 2013, and have consistently used it until last year, when I started shifting back massively to physical books. These days, I only use the ereader when it's not really convenient to carry a book around.
Anyone else?
Saturday Nov 9, 2019
"Like the way writing something down imprints it in one’s brain, driving a stick makes a journey more vivid, tactile, and memorable." wired.com
Having learned to drive on one, my theory is that driving a stick shift makes for better/safer drivers. https://t.co/f5jGsRo1WJ
— Kevin Madden (@KevinMaddenDC) November 9, 2019
The @AppleCard is such a fucking sexist program. My wife and I filed joint tax returns, live in a community-property state, and have been married for a long time. Yet Apple’s black box algorithm thinks I deserve 20x the credit limit she does. No appeals work.
— DHH (@dhh) November 7, 2019
Thursday Nov 7, 2019
"Most of the ones we still have are too scratched up to play; even if they aren't, it's rare to own the outdated technology it would take to listen to them. This is the decade that mix CDs died—and with them, a little part of us died, too." vice.com
"If you want to be extra nerdy, I recommend getting your hands on an eight-track to cassette adapter, then plugging in a cassette adapter with a headphone jack, then plugging that into your iPhone 6s. Who knows—it might just work." vice.com
Wednesday Nov 6, 2019
"In some cases venture capital investors are pushing money onto startups that don’t want more money because they already have more than enough; but the investors are threatening to harm these companies by providing enormous support to their startup competitors if they don’t take the money." bloomberg.com
"There's a very old business gag about losing money on every sale but making it up on volume." adcontrarian.blogspot.com
Tuesday Nov 5, 2019
One of my favorite twitter fallacies is that "if you care about X it means you don't care about Y or Z". For instance, "why do you care about cats when people are starving?" Sorry, but is caring a finite resource for you? You can only pick one thing to care about that's it?
— Molly Hodgdon (@Manglewood) November 5, 2019
Monday Nov 4, 2019
"The Utility Undergrounding Task Force, created by Board of Supervisors Resolution 706-04 (Supervisor Bevan Dufty, sponsor), was charged with advising the Board on the future of utility undergrounding within San Francisco's borders. The publication of its report to the Board concludes the work of the Task Force which officially expires on January 31, 2007." sfgov.org
"In fact there are forests where there’s more carbon in the soils than there is in the standing trees." e360.yale.edu
1/ I’ve been a digital guy for decades. I get my news and features all day long online. But we still get print newspapers at our house. I’ve already read many of the top stories, often from the papers’ own sites. So why do I get the print papers? It’s not just habit or nostalgia.
— Walt Mossberg (@waltmossberg) October 30, 2019
Sunday Nov 3, 2019
"The freelance revolution is spreading beyond major metros to smaller cities, towns and rural areas around the world, according to new research by the freelance design platform 99designs, with 76% of freelance designers living outside of major cities." forbes.com
Longtime "conservative" political writer Bill Kristol, son of Irving Kristol and until this year publisher of the now-defunct Weekly Standard magazine, told Kara Swisher that "conservative may be over" and that the future of politics may no longer be about liberalism vs. conservatism. stitcher.com/podcast/vox/recode-decode
"Relying on the machine like an infallible oracle just turns you into a machine yourself. But if you can outsource the drudge work to a machine, use it to hone and perfect your own ideas and creativity, they become the tools we need to reach for the stars." dallasnews.com
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