Barry Solow

New York (Map), Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:20:02 -0800

Calling Omicron ‘Mild’ Is Wishful Thinking

We are far past the point of hoping that this variant will spare us.

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Wed, 12 Jan 2022 13:02:51 -0800

I am not a developer so I don't know enough about the issue to have a truly informed opinion. This seems right, though...
Open source isn't the security problem – misusing it is

Security is a process, not a product

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:40:58 -0800

‘The only pure thing right now’: alleged Wordle copycats criticised for monetising free game

The creator of the viral word game has pledged to keep it completely free – but a host of since-removed apps have been accused of trying to cash in

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Tue, 11 Jan 2022 07:50:18 -0800

Most White respondents felt safe, but most Black respondents lived in fear of the police killing them and hurting their family members. Approximately half of Black respondents preferred to be robbed or burglarized than to have unprovoked contact with officers. The racial divide in fear was mediated by past experiences with police mistreatment. In turn, fear mediated the effects of race and past mistreatment on support for defunding the police and intentions to have “the talk” with family youths about the need to distrust and avoid officers. The deep American racial divide in police-related fear represents a racially disparate health crisis and a primary obstacle to law enforcement's capacity to serve all communities equitably.

The American racial divide in fear of the police

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Tue, 11 Jan 2022 03:56:53 -0800

Economists Pin More Blame on Tech for Rising Inequality

Recent research underlines the central role that automation has played in widening disparities.

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:46:31 -0800

Christian nationalism has deep roots in America, faith leaders say

For many non-Christian Americans, Christian nationalism is an unavoidable fact of life.

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:27:31 -0800

Is the US really heading for a second civil war?

With the country polarised and Republicans embracing authoritarianism, some experts fear a Northern Ireland-style insurgency but others say armed conflict remains improbable

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:14:07 -0800 last edited: Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:19:13 -0800

'Don’t Look Up': Hollywood's primer on climate denial illustrates 5 myths that fuel rejection of science

Just because something isn’t 100% certain doesn’t mean you ignore it, and other lessons from two researchers who study the problem of science denial.

lotfi

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 11:12:25 -0800

Too bad, I would have loved to see it, but it's only on Netflix here in Europe, and I don't have a subscription.

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:36:36 -0800

The challenge is to build an organizational basis for a mass pro-democracy coalition across many fragmented interests—a coalition that understands that democratic institutions are its best chance to achieve the good life, advancing equality in terms of both economic and racial outcomes. There is as of yet no clear path to this outcome, but the first step is to recognize it.

The Deep Structure of Democratic Crisis - Boston Review

The threat to American democracy springs, most fundamentally, from the social fragmentation wrought by a post-industrial economy.

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:32:39 -0800

Facebook’s corporate religion held that cooperation would blossom as its social network drew the world together. Meanwhile, Google’s founder Sergey Brin argued that the politicians who won national elections should “withdraw from [their] respective parties and govern as independents in name and in spirit.” System Error recounts how Reich was invited to a private dinner of SV leaders who wanted to figure out how to build the ideal society to maximize scientific and technological progress. When Reich asked whether this society would be democratic, he was scornfully told that democracy holds back progress. The participants struggled with how to attract people to move to or vote for such a society. Still, they assumed that as SV reshaped the world, democratic politics—with its messiness, factionalism, and hostility to innovation—would give way to cleaner, more functional systems that deliver what people really want. Of course, this did not work.

Can Big Tech Serve Democracy? - Boston Review

New tools and technology policy might help, but politics come first.

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Fri, 07 Jan 2022 14:36:24 -0800

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web0 manifesto

In other words, web0 is web3 without all the corporate right-libertarian Silicon Valley bullshit.

Got It In Three!

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Fri, 07 Jan 2022 14:21:41 -0800

Wordle 202 3/6
(Basically, Mastermind with words)

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Wordle - A daily word game

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Thu, 06 Jan 2022 13:45:22 -0800

Capitol Rioter Admits False Statements to FBI, but Prosecutors Haven’t Charged Him With a Felony

The Justice Department frequently charges Muslims with felonies for making false statements to federal agents.

So I Joined BookWyrm

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Fri, 31 Dec 2021 13:30:01 -0800

BookWyrm

Social Reading and Reviewing

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Thu, 30 Dec 2021 09:13:06 -0800

The Lessons We Should Have Learned in 2021 — But Didn’t

Why 2021 Was a Bitter, Brutal Welcome to the Age of Civilizational Fragility

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Thu, 30 Dec 2021 05:33:39 -0800

“Because we didn’t have that national response, tech companies stood up and filled the gap,” Howard said. “But that also allows Apple and Google to set the policy. So instead of the policy being driven at a national level, it’s being driven by the tech companies. That’s a question that we in the United States need to ask ourselves, is that where the policy should be driven?”

As omicron washes over America, much of the country still isn’t using exposure notification apps

Google and Apple built a system to let people know if they've come in contact with someone who has covid-19. Many Americans still don't know it exists.

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Fri, 24 Dec 2021 18:06:21 -0800

Our results reveal a remarkably consistent trend: In six out of seven countries studied, the mainstream political right enjoys higher algorithmic amplification than the mainstream political left. Consistent with this overall trend, our second set of findings studying the US media landscape revealed that algorithmic amplification favors right-leaning news sources

Conservatives have long accused social media platforms of discriminating against them, but the opposite is true

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Thu, 23 Dec 2021 05:44:23 -0800

Native New Yorkers On TikTok Are Pushing Back Against The "NYC Influencer" Trend

The ubiquitous one-minute glimpses of NYC life are hard to avoid, but for a generation of TikTokers who were born and raised in the city, the bite-sized clips don’t represent the city they have grown up in.

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Wed, 22 Dec 2021 09:39:58 -0800

"...before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another."
--- Toni Morrison

America is now in fascism’s legal phase | Jason Stanley

The US’s history of racism is fertile ground for fascism. Attacks on the courts, education, voting rights and women’s rights are steps to toppling democracy

Barry Solow

New York (Map), Wed, 22 Dec 2021 04:34:03 -0800

While the article mentions people who have left there is no mention of the cultivation of user-run alternatives. No mention of Hubzilla or Zap or Mastodon or Peertube or Pixelfed...

Americans widely distrust Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with their data, poll finds

Pulled between not trusting some tech companies and still wanting to use their products, people look to government regulation.