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Inside: New Little Brother/Homeland edition is out today!; There is no automation employment crisis; Cyberpunk Culture; Or What You Will; #BlackOutDay2020; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/07/07/lit…

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New Little Brother/Homeland edition is out today!: With an intro by Edward Snowden.



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There is no automation employment crisis: But there is a climate emergency.



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Cyberpunk Culture: An online conference, Jul 9/10.



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Or What You Will: Jo Walton's new, brilliant meta-meta-novel.



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#BlackOutDay2020: Pledge not to spend a dime in a store or online, except in Black-owned businesses.



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Right wing press duped by state-sponsored influence campaign: Deepfakes and avatars manipulated to defeat reverse image searches.



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Coronavirus tests are a taxable benefit: HMRC creates a perverse incentive.



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Big 4 accounting firms headed for breakup: When the referee cheats.



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Home security cameras are really insecure: Even encrypted video streams can give away sensitive info.



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Why covid cases are spiking but deaths aren't: Lead-time bias.



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#10yrsago Basil Wolverton's CULTURE CORNER: grotesque HOWTOs from MAD Magazine's gross-out king boingboing.net/2010/07/07/bas…

#10yrsago Glucosamine no better than placebo for lower back pain abcnews.go.com/Health/PainMan…

#10yrsago America's "jobless recovery" nytimes.com/2010/07/07/bus…

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#10yrsago Finance columnist explains capitalism to children: take things without paying, then sell them chicago.suntimes.com/business/savag…

#5yrsago Hacking Team leak: bogus copyright takedowns and mass DEA surveillance in Colombia arstechnica.com/information-te…

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#5yrsago Foo Fighters demand bullshit terms from concert photographers blog.natkin.net/foo-fighters/

#5yrsago RIP, Disney Imagineering great Blaine Gibson paleofuture.gizmodo.com/blaine-gibson-…

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#5yrsago Colorado achieved incredible reductions in teen pregnancy through free birth control nytimes.com/2015/07/06/sci…

#1yrago Mississippi makes it a jailable offense to call plant-based or cultured-meat patties "burgers" vox.com/future-perfect…

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Yesterday's threads: New podcast; Europe's interop coalition; Scarfolk beermats; Miami cop owns illegal mansion nightclub; Video and transcript of my OII talk; Shower temperature vs handle position; 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.

pluralistic.net/2020/05/29/min…

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The PPP stimulus program contained the kernel of a crucial and beneficial idea - that it would be easier to put people back on the payroll after the crisis than it would be to find them jobs after their employers went bankrupt.

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It provided 12 weeks' payroll coverage as a forgivable loan that would not be due if your employees were still on the payroll when it ran out.

As good as this idea was, it had some serious deficiencies.

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First, it didn't last long enough. The lockdown continues. It will likely continue through the rest of 2020 and beyond, thanks in large part to Trump's mismanagement, abetted by callous, greedy business "leaders" and Republican state officials.

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The number of covid cases in the US is spiking but the death count isn't. This mystery has spawned many explanations, most of them optimistic ("it's young people who are recovering," "our therapies are better," etc). But the real explanation is simpler, and it's sad.

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As epidemiologist @EpiEllie explains, it's almost certainly just "lead time bias."

That's when you test more people, including presymptomatic people, and thus discover the disease earlier than before.



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That means we learn people are sick earlier, which means that the time between detection and death gets longer - not because people are surviving longer from the onset of symptoms, but because we're detecting sick people before they exhibit symptoms.

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"Your Privilege Gives Your Privacy Away: An Analysis of a Home Security Camera Service," is a new IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications paper by researchers from Queen Mary U and the Chinese Academy of Science.

qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstrea…

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The researchers analyzed 15.4m encrypted streams from 211k users' homes and found that they could characterize activity levels in the homes without decrypting the streams. IOW: the encrypted video from your home CCTVs is detectably different when you're not home.

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The researchers were able to do more than figure out if now was a good time to rob your house, though - analysis of the encrypted streams also distinguished different types of motion, like running and sitting.

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