What I Read or Listened to This Week
What I Read or Listened to This Week
What I Read or Listened to This Week
What I Read or Listened to This Week
How Right-Wing Women Are Using the Pandemic to Peddle School Privatization Jeff Speck on Confessions of a Recovering Engineer Corporate Media Is The Misinformation Problem - “The difference between ‘media’ and actual journalism is the root of the misinformation crisis. We’re drowning in content that is increasingly valued only for its potency in the political wars, rather than judged on its factual merits and its choice of targets. That kind of media content strays farther and farther from reality because it’s about entertaining and inflaming rather than educating and informing.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
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Is Momentum Shifting Toward a Ban on Behavioral Advertising?
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Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” Is a Front for a Right-Wing, Anti-Worker Agenda
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System Error:Where Big Tech Went Wrong And How We Can Reboot
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[23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism][https://www.academia.edu/20089247/23_Things_They_Dont_Tell_You_about_Capitalism]
What I Read or Listened to This Week
What I Read or Listened to This Week
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Public Agencies Are Buying Up AI-Driven Hiring Tools and “Bossware”
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Workers Are Dying Because Amazon Treats Human Beings as Disposable - " For Amazon, workers dying is the cost of doing business, and it often costs less than keeping them alive."
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
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Do smart supermarkets herald the end of shopping as we know it?
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Please Enjoy Two Videos Of Elon Musk’s Obviously Bad Ideas Failing
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The Hidden Labor of Information: A Conversation with Craig Robertson
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Uber faces an unlikely competitor in Brazil: the government’s taxi app
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Tech journalism must center the workers that keep Big Tech running
What I Read or Listened to This Week
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
All The Books I Read In 2022
Some notes and quotes from the books I have read this year:
Building the Cycling City - A few things that stuck out to me:
The Netherlands wasn’t always so cycling friendly and it took decades to get to this place. There is no blueprint. Every city is different, but in general prioritizing walking, cycling, public transit and driving, in that order, starts you in the right direction. There also needs to be synergy between modes (ie cycling to the train station, taking the train then cycling to your destination needs to be a smooth process) So many of the projects that helped change things were not popular until after they were implemented.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
The Token Disconnect A Black Woman Invented Home Security. Why Did It Go So Wrong? New Report: Amazon’s Toll Road Canadian News Media Is Dominated by Corporate Lobbyists The Promise and Terror of Artificial Intelligence America’s Gambling Addiction Is Metastasizing The Tech Moguls Are Looking for a New Playground Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
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Electric vehicles won’t save us — we need to get rid of cars completely - “The electrification of transportation is essential — there is no doubt about that — but just replacing every personal vehicle with a battery-powered equivalent will produce an environmental disaster of its own. Such a strategy also denies us the opportunity to rethink a near-century of misguided auto-oriented city planning.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
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Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Eight: Uber Still Unprofitable, But Reduces Losses by Squeezing Drivers and Restaurants - “Uber’s 3Q financial gains were exclusively due to extracting wealth from drivers and restaurants, not market or performance improvements”
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Infiltrating Amazon: What I learned going undercover at the corporate giant
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Health apps and wearables help rich people the most, study finds
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The world’s most famous Facebook whistleblower should amplify those who came before her
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Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare
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Facebook Isn’t Telling You How Popular Right-Wing Content Is on the Platform
What I Read or Listened to This Week
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
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The programmer’s brain in the lands of exploration and production
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Biden’s $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Hastens Beacons For Bicyclists And Pedestrians Enabling Detection By Connected Cars - If people need to wear transponders to be detected by autonomous vehicles, maybe they shouldn’t exist?
What I Read or Listened to This Week
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