Pluralistic: 31 Mar 2021

Today's links

AT&T will lay off thousands more: After promising that Trump's $20B tax-break would create jobs.
Cuba is a vaccine powerhouse: A vaccine for the Global South.
Sacklers to use Purdue bankruptcy to escape justice: Crime pays.
AI has a GIGO problem: Bias-laundering at mass scale.
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How to donate to John Varley: Paypal versus science fiction.
Minimum wage vs Wall Street bonuses: The fight for $44.
America needs a high-fiber broadband diet: AT&T to rural America: "Drop dead (slowly)."
Als Sysadmins die Erde beherrschten: My "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth," auf Deutsch.
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Monopoly so fragile: Sharpening the contradictions in the Suez Canal.
Noble Lies: "Experts" aren't experts on when to lie.
Big Salmon's aquaturf: Cheaper for fish farms to smear scientists than to clean up their act.
Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results: Podcasting my Locus column on why machine learning won't lead to artificial intelligence.
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On the occasion of John Varley's quadruple bypass: Raising funds for a beloved sf giant.
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Dreaming and overfitting: The Overfitted Brain Hypothesis has a lot of explanatory power.
Dirty NYPD cops can't lose: The secret legal defense fund for the indefensible.
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Zuckerpunch: Don't trust Mark Zuckerberg to solve the Facebook problem.
Good news about news co-ops: Save journalism, not media monopolies.
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Green investing is a fraud: ESGs and other delusions.
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Solar futures and futuristic fellowships: What's happening at ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination.
FCC wants broadband complaints: Your chance to sound off about a shithole country.
Tories pass Grenfell costs onto tenants: A Parliament of Landlords, doing its job.
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Patent troll IP is more powerful than Apple's: Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Podcasting "Free Markets": Taxation without representation.
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The political possibility of cities: Find yourself a city to live in.
Donziger correction: Not the only person in US pre-trial detention for a misdemeanor.
This day in history: 2006, 2020
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