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Faced with remote learning, educators had to figure out what to do about high-stakes testing: a pedagogically bankrupt adversarial practice of measuring students' educational outcomes by testing their performance in
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The "lawful interception" industry is a hive of scum and villainy: these are powerful, wildly profitable companies who search out defects in widely used software, then weaponize them and sell
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Google has announced a step to kill the third-party cookie, a source of enormous and pernicious privacy violations. This would be great news, except for the fact that Google is
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After the Jan 6 insurrection, there were tons of demoralizing stories about how much pro-insurrection lawmakers like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Josh Hawley were raising in small-dollar donations, suggesting a
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"Wanting it badly is not enough" could be the title of a postmortem on the century's tech-policy battles. Think of the crypto wars: yeah, it would be super cool if
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JACKPOT is the debut book-length work from @MichaelMechanic, the senior editor at @MotherJones. It's a pitiless - but empathic - look at the lives of the (mostly) American super-rich.https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Jackpot/Michae
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When I give talks about surveillance in Silicon Valley, techies will say, "Well, I don't care if Google gets my data to show me better ads, but the NSA is
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Today, @ProjectReboot pubished "Unfair Use," an updated version of "IP," my September 2020 column for @locusmag, which I consider to be the most important piece I have written in my
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2.5b people in Earth's 130 poorest countries have not been vaccinated. The 85 poorest countries won't be vaccinated until 2023. The humanitarian cost is unforgivable - and self-defeating, as each
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"Gig economy" is a polite term for "worker misclassification" - a way to violate labor law by pretending that your employees are actually independent contractors. 1/ Unsurprisingly, the companies that
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Despite the (ill-informed) assurances of people who should know better, there is no way to run a secret, anonymous, secure ballot over the internet. It's a science fantasy, like faster-than-light
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Today in @WiredUK, my op-ed: "Why it’s easier to move country than switch social media" - an argument that the real power of social media comes from switching costs, not
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