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Public Enemy has just released a new version of their 1989 anthem "Fight the Power" (featured in the Spike Lee breakout "Do the Right Thing") along with a video featuring Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, Jahi, YG and QuestLove.



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The new version is outstanding and the accompanying video even better, integrating recent footage from the #BlackLivesMatter uprising, with the guest MCs explicitly tracing the current struggle to Public Enemy's decades of activism.

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It's also a relief to see Flavor Flav back with Chuck D and Public Enemy, after a high-profile spat and breakup that came to a head when Flav didn't perform with Chuck D at an LA Bernie Sanders rally (I was there, and Chuck D was incredible).

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PE's next album, What You Gonna Do, comes out on Sept 25, with all-star guests including Beastie Boys, George Clinton, Cypress Hill and Run-DMC.

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Trump lacks the attention-span to be a fascist. As @mtaibbi writes, "He might not have a moral problem with it, but two minutes into the plan he’d leave the room, phone in hand, to throw on a robe and watch himself on Fox and Friends."

taibbi.substack.com/p/the-trump-er…

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So what is Trump? A salesman. To understand him, don't read IT CAN HAPPEN HERE, read Cialdini's PRE-SUASION and learn how salesmen manipulate their marks.

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Taibbi: "Moreover he’s not just any salesman; he might be the greatest salesman ever, considering the quality of the product, i.e. himself."

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A common pathology among experts in quantitative field is to assume that when they are dealing with problems with qualitative dimensions that they can simply model the quantitative part and ignore the squishy human factors. This does not end well.

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This has cropped up a LOT in epidemiology during the plague months, for example in the belief that untested "exposure notification" with mobile apps can substitute (or even augment) shoe-leather "contact tracing":

pluralistic.net/2020/08/20/dub…

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But the Dunning-Krugerish insistence that quantitative methods can be applied to domains with strong qualitative components isn't limited to contact tracing - it also applies to re-opening plans.

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Ever wondered why an app that doesn't need your location still wants permission to get your location? It's likely because the app was built with a "free" developer toolkit that was made by a company that harvests and sells your location data.

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One such company is X-Mode, whose first product was an app that was supposed to stop you from making phone calls while drunk. They pivoted to mass location surveillance, providing developer tools to many app creators, from MP3 converters to the beauty app Perfect365.

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Who buys X-Mode's data? Creepy corporate spies. HYAS is a "threat intelligence" company that boasts that if you think your company is being hacked or defrauded by someone on the internet, they can give you that person's home address.

vice.com/en_us/article/…

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