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Inside: My talk at Republica online; Prisons, meatpacking plants, nursing homes; How "contact tracing" apps could be worse than useless; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/05/02/rew…

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My talk at Republica online: "The Collapse"



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Prisons, meatpacking plants, nursing homes: Everything else is a rounding error.



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How "contact tracing" apps could be worse than useless: And what to do about it.



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Ticketmaster gets $500m from Mohammad bin Salman: Monopolist, meet murderer.



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Kim Stanley Robinson on "our rewritten imagination": A new structure of feelings.



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#15yrsago Haunted Mansion executed in sand web.archive.org/web/2004102610…

#15yrsago Discrimination victims experience worst artery-hardening sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/…

#15yrsago Katamari Damacy sequel in depth web.archive.org/web/2005111408…

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#15yrsago 3D printer made from Meccano and hot-glue blog.rebang.com/?p=101

#10yrsago Star Wars Loteria tribute chepo.net

#5yrsago Every question in every Q&A; session the-toast.net/2015/05/01/eve…

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#5yrsago FBI replies to Stingray Freedom of Information request with 5,000 blank pages techdirt.com/articles/20150…

#1yrago Tumblr is for sale...again theverge.com/2019/5/2/18527…

#1yrago Elizabeth Warren proposes debt relief for Puerto Rico medium.com/@teamwarren/my…

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#1yrago Trump's former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has joined Boeing's Board of Directors thehill.com/policy/transpo…

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Yesterday's threads: .ORG snatched from rapacious PE billionaires; Frontier deliberately denied fiber to millions; Amazon/Trump officials neutered worker protection initiative; "Financial literacy" will not make poor people better off; and more!



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On Jul 14, my first picture book comes out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.



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Today's top sources: Marginal Revolution (marginalrevolution.com), JWZ (jwz.org/blog/).

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Cyberpunk conference call for papers; Lockdown CO2 and structural roots of the climate emergency; The Making of Prince of Persia; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/05/03/giv…

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Cyberpunk conference call for papers: Inescapable cyberpunk futures bleeding into the interstices of our present.



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Lockdown CO2 and structural roots of the climate emergency: You can't personally recycle your way out of climate change.



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From an early age, it was clear that @jmechner was extraordinarily talented. While he was a Yale undergrad, he created the game Karateka, which Broderbund published and which went to #1 on the Billboard software charts.

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But it was Mechner's followup game, Prince of Persia, that cemented a place in game history for him once it became part of the canon of games, inventing and popularizing many of the tropes of modern sidescrollers and puzzle games.

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In "The Making of Prince of Persia," Mechner reproduces three years of personal journal entries describing the trials and tribulations that went into PoP.

jordanmechner.com/store/the-maki…

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About 4 billion people are in pandemic lockdown, but the forecast drop in CO2 emissions for 2020 is about 5%; to head off a global temperature rise of more than 1.5C, that number needs to be 7.6%.

scientificamerican.com/article/why-co…

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As @MazMHussain wrote, "This suggests emission levels relate less to individual behavior than larger structural factors only addressable through regulation."



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Emergencies have a well-known leftist bias, which is why the right has such a hard time dealing with them, despite its worship of "rationalism" and its belief that "reality doesn't care about your feelings."

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