Linkage

• Spocko’s Top 5 Video Meeting Commandments (Spocko's Brain) Run no other apps, including Chrome, wired connection, connect well ahead of time, reboot your computer before the meeting, write emergency phrases on paper to hold up to camera.
• We Need to Think Harder About Inflation (Stephanie Kelton) A pretty good description of how Modern Monetary Theory provides better tools to deal with potential inflation than the old school sh%$
• Opinion | We should say good riddance to officers who refuse to be vaccinated for covid (Washington Post) "Though it would be very difficult to prove statistically, I strongly suspect that the officers quitting over vaccine mandates are much more likely than their vaccinated peers to embody everything that’s wrong with American policing."
• Hampsterdance Website History: Could It Be Successful Today? (Tedium) It's an interesting article, largely for its description of how the web, and how viral web content, have changed over the years. 
• Silencing the Competition: Inside the Fight Against the Hearing Aid Cartel (Matt Stoller) How oligopolies in the hearing aid industry has created massively overpriced products.
• The Methods of Moral Panic Journalism (Michael Hobbes) A good rundown of media moral panics over the years, which it then compares it to the tempest in a tea pot over "Cancel Culture".
• EXCLUSIVE Dutch forensic lab says it has decoded Tesla's driving data (Reuters) I think that this will reveal just how little "there" is there for Tesla's autopilot.
  

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