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Mon Mar 15 06:00:01 EDT 2021
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Slept from ten-thirty to seven.
Woke briefly a couple times in the night.
Mostly sunny in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow in the afternoon.
Highs in the upper 30s.
East winds 10 to 15 mph.
Work
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- Check security video for Sunday at main office
Done.
- Why's port 8080 traffic blocked on Fergus?
Done.
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Cool, windy, and mostly overcast.
Saw a pair of cardinals.
Home
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- Go to bed not late
Took out trash.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/dispatch-14-covid-crystal-ball
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03291-y
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2031364
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-may-arise-in-people-with-compromised-immune-systems/
Wow.
Cory Doctorow
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1298631104983740417
> Surveillance Capitalism is a real, serious, urgent problem, but not because it accidentally led to a working mind-control ray and then turned it over to Nazis.
> It's a problem because it is both emblematic of monopolies (which lead to corruption, AKA conspiracies) and because the vast, nonconsensual dossiers it compiles on us can be used to compromise and neutralize opposition to the status quo.
> And Big Tech DOES exert control over us, but not with mind-control rays. Lock-in (and laws that support it) allows Big Tech to decide how we can use our devices, who can fix them, and when they must be thrown away.
> Lock-in is an invitation to totalitarianism: the Chinese government observed the fact that Apple alone could decide which apps can run on Iphones, then ordered Apple to remove apps that allowed Chinese people privacy from the state.
> I'm sure that the Uyghurs in concentration camps and the Falun Gong members having their organs harvested are relieved that Apple abetted their surveillance for reasons other than mere marketing.
> This is the core of my critique, the reason I wrote this book: we should be suspicious of all corporate control over our lives, and should insist on nothing less than absolute technological self-determination.
> The idea that "if you're not paying for the product, you're the product," suggests the simplistic solution of just charging for everything. But the reality is that in a monopoly, you're the product irrespective of whether you're paying.
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
Chatted with Jay and Ed a bit on Signal.
Servings: grains 5/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 1/2, meat 1/3, nuts 0/0.5
Brunch: pineapple, cucumber, soup, bread
Lunch: egg, avocado
Dinner: cheese curls
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