Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-08-09
- Basant ???? on Twitter: “The bridge was built to last. Then the river changed course. https://t.co/zYSVEpBWzQ” / Twitter
There’s a message in here somewhere. - China’s Artificial Intelligence Surveillance State Goes Global – The Atlantic
The nanny apps work in tandem with the police, who spot-check phones at checkpoints, scrolling through recent calls and texts. Even an innocent digital association—being in a group text with a recent mosque attendee, for instance—could result in detention. Staying off social media altogether is no solution, because digital inactivity itself can raise suspicions. The police are required to note when Uighurs deviate from any of their normal behavior patterns. Their database wants to know if Uighurs start leaving their home through the back door instead of the front. It wants to know if they spend less time talking to neighbors than they used to. Electricity use is monitored by an algorithm for unusual use, which could indicate an unregistered resident. - What the SAT’s Adversity Score Means for Its Racist Past – The Atlantic
The original Scholastic Aptitude Test was invented in 1926 by Carl Brigham, a Princeton alumnus and avowed eugenicist who created the test to uphold a racial caste system. He advanced this theory of standardized testing as a means of upholding racial purity in his book A Study of American Intelligence. - Conversation Piece – Futility Closet
French conceptual artist Julien Berthier designed this yacht, known as the Love Love — it’s fully seaworthy but appears perpetually to be sinking. - Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy | Open Culture
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness. - Tony Haile on Twitter: “Woah, I wonder how many publishers in Apple News+ realize that the new iOS14 and MacOS Big Sur are by default intercepting traffic to their sites and sending it to the Apple News app instead. https://t.co/k4PQG9mE7M” / Twitter
I don’t use apple news because of this crap. - Marco Rogers on Twitter: “One thing I’ve learned to accept is that things like quality have never come from the company as a whole. Almost all the time, the quality you see is down to a small number of humans who gave a shit. And when those people leave,
Culture vs Individual - Coronavirus shutdown causes new threat: Legionnaire’s disease – CNN
The plumbing in buildings that have been closed for months because of the coronavirus pandemic could provide a perfect breeding ground for Legionella and other waterborne pathogens, the CDC cautions.
It even happened to the CDC itself.
“During the recent closures at our leased space in Atlanta, working through the General Services Administration (GSA), CDC directed the landlord to take protective actions,” the CDC said in a statement to CNN.
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