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Inside: Alvim Corrêa's War of the Worlds illustrations; America's corporate lobbyists want a bailout; Sacrifice banks to save businesses; Scarfolk death statistics; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/05/06/mol…

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Alvim Corrêa's War of the Worlds illustrations: They started as fan art.



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America's corporate lobbyists want a bailout: It's the political version of the human centipede.



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Sacrifice banks to save businesses: Either we nerf landlords and banks to save businesses and jobs, or the businesses and jobs will collapse and take out landlords and banks.



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Scarfolk death statistics: Juking the stats.



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Chef paints portrait of every meal he eats: Itsuo Kobayashi has been at it for 32 years.



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Appeals court says Miami jail doesn't need to provide soap: When waiting for your hearing becomes a death sentence.



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Ohio's got a snitchline for bosses whose workers who won't go back: Reopen and/or die.



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Magic Puzzles: From Max "Cards Against Humanity" Temkin and friends.



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#15yrsago V-TV DAY: WE WON THE BROADCAST FLAG FIGHT! pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/op…

#10yrsago Roy Lichtenstein's estate claims copyright over the images he appropriated web.archive.org/web/2010050922…

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#10yrsago Naked scanner reveals airport screener's tiny penis, sparks steel baton fight with fellow officers seattletimes.com/nation-world/a…

#5yrsago Legal threat against security researcher claims he violated lock's copyright arstechnica.com/information-te…

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#5yrsago Mass protests, brutal crackdown in Macedonia balkaninsight.com/2015/05/06/mac…

#5yrsago Amazon drops "Boy" and "Girl" categories from toy listings

#1yrago Apple's growth strategy is a textbook case of antitrust abuse theverge.com/2019/5/6/18531…

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#1yrago Mooing NZ opposition leader denies making "barnyard noise" nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl…

#1yrago How the diverse internet became a monoculture canadalandshow.com/podcast/276-20…

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#1yrago People with diabetes are scouring the internet for a discontinued insulin pump that can be reprogrammed as an "artificial pancreas" theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

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#1yrago Facebook hands hundreds of contractors in India access to its users' private messages and private Instagram posts in order to help train an AI reuters.com/article/us-fac…

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#1yrago "Steering With the Windshield Wipers": why nothing we're doing to fix Big Tech is working locusmag.com/2019/05/cory-d…

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Yesterday's threads: Podcast: Part 2 of "Someone Comes to Town"; President Supervillain; What "writing rules" actually mean; Negativland's "This is Not Normal"; Leaked Trump doc projects 3000 US deaths/day; 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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Are you trying to wean yourself off Big Tech? Follow these threads on the #fediverse at @pluralistic@mamot.fr.

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Today's top sources: Max Temkin (maxistentialism.com), Kottke (kottke.org), Julie K Brown (twitter.com/jkbjournalist), Parker Higgins (twitter.com/xor).

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"Re-opening" isn't about saving ordinary workers and earners. You can't save someone by infecting them with a deadly disease. In a world without contact-tracing, therapeutics, tests, PPE, santizing products, etc, more contact means more risk of illness and death.

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"Re-opening" is about saving investors: the 1% who constitute the major shareholders in large firms whose calculus goes like this: "30% unemployment means that for every worker who dies on the job, ten more will apply to take their place."

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These people are willing to risk workers' lives and shoppers' lives because they believe they do not have a shared microbial destiny with the rest of us.

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Wechat from @TencentGlobal is the third most popular social media platform in the world, primarily because it is the de facto standard for Chinese social media, rolling up many other services like identity and payment.

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Having conquered China, Wechat's new growth will come from the rest of the world, and it has aggressively courted non-Chinese users - and while Tencent acts as an arm of the Chinese state in conducting surveillance and censorship in China, non-Chinese users weren't censored.

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But that doesn't mean they weren't being spied upon - nor that the usage of non-Chinese users didn't power Chinese censorship efforts.

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Sidewalk Labs is the Google/Alphabet division that did a deal with the City of Toronto to turn part of the downtown into a private surveillance-city where people who opted out of data-collection would be punished for their privacy choices.

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From the start, the company acted in deceptive and disreputable ways, and suffered waves of resignations of its high-profile privacy board and denunciations from the indigenous leaders it consulted with (and then roundly ignored).

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It became increasingly clear that even if "smart cities" were a good idea, Sidewalk Labs wasn't. The company became a lightning rod for criticism, but the city kept greenlighting new phases of the project.

Now, the project is dead.

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