The Atlantic
Eric Schlosser of Fast Food Nation fame makes an important point here about the Mississippi immigration raids and immigration patterns in general. They have been driven by the business need for cheaper, less organized labor.
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The Atlantic
BloombergMatt Levine has a good summary of the fine Facebook negotiated over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. But his analysis of why legislation doesn’t happen in the wake of scandals feels right on to me:
"...Americans are biased toward thinking of bad things as being already illegal, always illegal, illegal by definition and by nature and in themselves. If the thing that Facebook did was so bad, then it must have been illegal, so there is no need for a new law against it."Our laws are not equipped for our current media age and we’re biased against thinking laws could be out of date.
washingtonpost.comWe have recently had regular E. coli outbreaks while the FDA was fully staffed. It seems like a bad idea to understaff them right now.
Update (1/11): Oh good.
Update (1/11): Oh good.
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Fascinating look at the domain name system and the complex DNS master key ritual. (Seems like an event that stopped international travel would keep the key locked away.)
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"To the engineers, I say this: we built the internet, and some of us have helped to subvert it. Now, those of us who love liberty have to fix it."
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Jay Smooth speaks the truth. Conspiracy theories often work to mask the real problems in plain sight.
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There's a nerdier way to get your public IP then whatismyip.com. Skip the ads and run curl icanhazip.com.
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"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody." It's nice to hear someone communicating traditional Democratic values so clearly.
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"...today's writer resembles more a programmer than a tortured genius, brilliantly conceptualizing, constructing, executing, and maintaining a writing machine." Nice.
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"The truth is that individual health insurance is not easy to get." I second this. When I was a young, single, childless freelance developer I also found that insurance was difficult to get. I can't imagine what it would be like now that I'm older with a family. I'm lucky to have an awesome employer who provides insurance but we should fix this problem. [via rafe]
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Zen medium format photos by Ryan Carver. Nice to see his photos outside of Flickr. [via mathowie]
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Danny Sullivan on the unhappy relationship/different norms between blogs and the mainstream media. [via mneznanski]
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This site uses open health and crime data to rank your county on the seven deadly sins. [via anil]
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Love these long exposure night landscapes--uniquely Midwestern.
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It'd be great to hear her speak and the W+K space is cool.
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"The Federal Trade Commission will try to regulate blogging for the first time, requiring writers on the Web to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products." I wonder how many people they have dedicated to this. Because they're going to need more.
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"On May 21st, 2009 the City of Vancouver passed a motion that directed City Staff to begin sharing the data and information the city collects, to share this data in open standards and to place open source on an equal footing with proprietary software." [via cshirky]
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Lakoff is brilliant. A move from calling health care reform the "public option" to "The American Plan" would help build support. We've been comparing our options with what Canada, UK, France, and other countries have, but we like things invented here.
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Some good ways to improve ColdFusion application performance. Doing a lot of these already, but picked up a few new coding practices I should follow.
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Umberto Eco on the features of Eternal Fascism. "In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism." [via MeFi]