Pluralistic: To save the news, repeal the app tax (07 June 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Society
Rumors Have Rules
Decades-old research about how and why people share rumors is even more relevant in a world with social media.
Congress Short-Circuits the Electric Grid
It’s bad enough not to get a clean debt bill, but it’s worse to impede electric transmission issues as part of the bargain.
Merck Says Negotiating Drug Prices Is Unconstitutional
The Inflation Reduction Act took minor steps against Big Pharma price-gouging. Merck is outraged.
Is Capitalism Really Cracking Up Nation-States?
Quinn Slobodian’s new book shimmers with libertarian dreams but fails to demonstrate that zones are splintering national governments.
Journalism is pretty bad
It's even worse than it appears..
Pluralistic: Capitalists hate capitalism (09 June 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
Spies gonna spy
The Post-Secular Society, Influencers, and Misinformation | Psychology Today United Kingdom
Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore. - The Verge
Solving disinformation with Internet literacy
Fake people and fake news have existed on Internet since forever. They didn’t make such a terrible impact at the beginning because Internet…
Get Phones Out of Schools Now
They impede learning, stunt relationships, and lessen belonging. They should be banned.
What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?
“Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.”
'Night Fury': Documents Detail DHS Project to Give 'Risk Scores' to Social Media Users
Kick the Cops off your Block
KICK THE COPS OFF YOUR BLOCK: Introduction: For contemplative and practical purposes, we need worldviews and theories that have explanatory power, that trace causes, effects, forms, functions…
Snowden Ten Years Later - Schneier on Security
Pluralistic: A business model for bankrupting the oil companies(06 June 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Academy
They built the digital world. Now they just want to sew and make chairs.
Those who came up in the era of ‘move fast and break things’ are learning to slow down and make things.
Pluralistic: Wall Street Journal goes to bat for the vultures who want to steal your house (04 June 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
What's expected of us - Nature
It's a tough choice...
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I’ve Seen the Future That Has Hollywood Actors Terrified
Here’s what the tech that Hollywood actors are scared of can really do.
Demographic Dividend: Which Countries Are Next? | Newgeography.com
America Is Headed Toward Collapse
History shows how to stave it off.
Inside the Meltdown at CNN
CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?
A Tragically American Approach to the Child-Care Crisis
The U.S. is returning to a tired old playbook: If at first you fail to make something a universal right, try making it an employee benefit.
A Nobel Laureate Walks Into a Supermarket
Annie Ernaux on the malaise of the grocery store
The Labor-Shortage Myth
Things are finally looking up for the American worker. Why does the government see that as a crisis?
Japan vending machines to automatically offer free food if earthquake hits
Machines in coastal city of Ako, are located in an area that experts say is vulnerable to a future powerful earthquake