Links October 2021
Oct. 27, 2021
"I note with selfish interest that income inequality, a topic that has generated considerable interest of late, was not on the menu at Aspen, just as it wasn’t on the menu at the latest World Economic Forum." newrepublic.com 🐤
Oct 26, 2021
Amnesty International Exits Hong Kong, Citing National Security Law | Human-rights group says authorities’ crackdown on dissent makes maintaining operations in city unworkable: wsj.com
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says 3 days in the office and 2 at home is a good 'balance' between in-person collaboration and time off from the commute: businessinsider.com
‘Bernanke,’ high fees and that defense deal with Facebook: 8 takeaways from the new filing in Google lawsuit: protocol.com
Oct. 25, 2021
Google allegedly worked with Facebook to undermine Apple's push for user privacy: businessinsider.com
Oct. 24, 2021
"But others assert that public health’s attempts at being apolitical push it further toward irrelevance. In truth, public health is inescapably political," theatlantic.com
"It’s doubtful that such demographic face analysis can ever really 'work.'" eff.org
Oct. 23, 2021
"On Nov. 5, two days after the election, another Facebook employee posted a message alerting colleagues that comments with 'combustible election misinformation' were visible below many posts. Four days after that, a company data scientist wrote in a note to his co-workers that 10 percent of all U.S. views of political material — a startlingly high figure — were of posts that alleged the vote was fraudulent." nytimes.com
Oct. 22, 2021
Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European privacy rules, according to lawsuit: nytimes.com 🐤
"In April, based on the same policy, it took aim at a German conspiracy movement called Querdenken." wsj.com
Oct. 12, 2021
"There are languages that take this even further, with usage rules that require you to convey not only that you’re being sincere, not sarcastic, but also where you got the information: In Tuyuca, you put different suffixes on phrases depending on whether you know something from seeing it, hearing it, surmising it or getting it from hearsay." nytimes.com
"Facebook claims that their role as guardian of users’ privacy gives them the power to shut down apps that give users more control over their own social media experience. Facebook is wrong. The latest example is their legal bullying of Friendly Social Browser." ' eff.org
"In July of this year, Barclay received a cease-and-desist letter from Facebook's lawyers, he said. Barclay published a redacted version of the letter online." msn.com
Oct. 11, 2021
"The county admitted that its call line, 211info, a source of critical information for people looking for cooling shelters and other emergency services, inadvertently dropped more than seven hundred and fifty calls, and that when callers got through they were sometimes given inaccurate information. The county vowed to improve that system, and to make sure that cooling shelters were more equitably situated—closer to the homes of the Portlanders who needed them most—and to make transportation to the shelters easier to obtain." newyorker.com
Oct. 09, 2021
"You know, growing up in a war-torn country, I couldn’t even imagine having a career in science." scientificamerican.com
Americans' Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record: news.gallup.com
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