Links April 2021
April 28, 2021
Making a Virtue Out of Neglect: How Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism Exacerbates Big Tech’s Absentee Ownership Problem: balkin.blogspot.com
Creation of First Human-Monkey Embryos Sparks Concern: wsj.com
"And the case of Brandi Levy, who at 14 years old let off some steam in a profanity-laden social media post in 2017 aimed at her school, her team and 'everything,' may wind up as one of the court's most important decisions on student speech in a generation." usatoday.com 📰
"'This fix is a one-line thing where you remove a line that logs sensitive information to the system log. It doesn’t impact the program, it doesn’t change how it works, ' said Joel Reardon, co-founder and forensics lead of AppCensus. 'It’s such an obvious fix, and I was flabbergasted that it wasn’t seen as that.'" themarkup.com 📧
"A sure sign of the increasing number of resellers vying for products is that merchandise has become scarce. Traches said he had been able to obtain a truckload of goods per week, but lately it’s been more like a truckload every three or four weeks." latimes.com 📰
April 23, 2021
The Moms of Magnolia Street Documentary nbcbayarea.com
Facebook diversions to Wired magazine declined by 90% the month after Wired published a critical article of the company. journalismliberty.org 🐤
A primer on lithium-ion batteries: how they work and how they are changing: volts.wtf
A Global Tipping Point for Reining In Tech Has Arrived Never before have so many countries, including China, moved with such vigor at the same time to limit the power of a single industry. nytimes.com
Opinion: Chula Vista must stop its automated license plate reader program. It’s undermining civil liberties. sandiegouniontribune.com 📰
The AP is doubling down on its local news experiment called StoryShare, which helped newsrooms quickly share information around COVID, AP deputy managing editor for U.S. News Noreen Gillespie tells Axios.: axios.com
Why Don’t Some TV Shows Sound the Way They Used To?-Licensing issues have gutted the soundtracks of many beloved series on streaming services, resulting in bewildering music cues and missing theme songs. nytimes.com
"As recently as November 2019, Digital Underground joined a 40th-anniversary party for Bay Area radio station KBLX alongside multiple music legends including MC Hammer, En Vogue, Luniz and Tony! Toni! Tone!" eastbaytimes.com
April 18, 2021
"It’s time we all had a better idea how algorithms impact us, particularly when the government is using them." calmatters.org 📰
"Dr. Gregorian campaigned as if running for election. Mayor Edward I. Koch, who knew a good thing when he saw one, climbed on the bandwagon, and former Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. said of Dr. Gregorian: 'He reminded us that libraries were engines of hope that move people into the middle class and to worlds beyond themselves.'" nytimes.com 🐤
"They say thousands of rent-controlled units have been lost to serial evictors who can make far more money by kicking out the tenants and converting the buildings into single-family homes or condominiums, or tearing them down and building new housing." sfchronicle.com
"Lee’s bill, AB854, would have required that property owners hold onto a unit for at least five years before they could invoke the Ellis Act to evict tenants and would have restricted their ability to use the law to one property per decade. Lee said the changes would balance the rights of long-term property owners who want to retire from the rental business with protections against speculator abuse." sfchronicle.com 📰
"This is at least the fourth time in the past two decades that advocates have tried and failed to add a holding period to the Ellis Act." sfchronicle.com 📰
"Yet the résumé’s demise (promised since the 1980s, when VHS profiles figured to replace paper) seems always to recede beyond the horizon." nytimes.com
Nonprofits that purchase land, build homes on it and sell them below market rate are giving low-income buyers a chance.: nytimes.com
Big Tech Is Pushing States to Pass Privacy Laws, and Yes, You Should Be Suspicious: themarkup.org 📧
"So to read that Reach, owners of the Mirror, Express, Star and more than 100 regional titles, is planning on closing most of its newsrooms so that staff will in future work remotely from home or over a laptop in a coffee bar, and venture into the office only for occasional meetings, is genuinely upsetting news." pressgazzette.co.uk
That Suburban Home Buyer Could Be a Foreign Government- Overseas investors turn to America’s single-family rentals wsj.com
"The healing power of music — lauded by philosophers from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Pete Seeger — is now being validated by medical research." nytimes.com
April 9 2021 Financial Education Won’t Fix Poverty. We Need Structural Change: msmagazine.com
April 8, 2021
Covid-19 Fuels Inequality, Political Divide, Authoritarianism World-Wide, U.S. Intelligence Analysts Say | Quadrennial Global Trends report also warns privacy will ‘effectively disappear’ and synthetic media will ‘distort truth and reality’ wsj.com
"In more recent years, I am told, he extolled the joys of his Kindle until, disgusted by all the direct marketing of books he didn’t want to read, he threw it in the bath." nytimes.com
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