For today’s links, I’ve broken things into the depressing list and the happy / interesting list. First up, the depressing list:
- “…when a shrinking work force cannot foot the pension bill…”
- How connected car tech is eroding personal privacy
- Employers are using workplace wearables to find out how happy and productive we are
- Microsoft singlehandedly proves that golden backdoor encryption keys are a terrible idea
- On Twitter, abuse is not just a bug, but a fundamental feature.
- Policing isn’t just broken in Ferguson or Baltimore. It’s broken in America.
- The federal government is finally making police report every time they kill someone
- Australia Census Debacle: “to retain all the personal info that it was collecting, including linkages to other data, rather than destroying it after it got the aggregate census numbers.”
And now, the happy list:
- Never pee on a jellyfish sting
- Turns out there’s no actual evidence that honey lasts indefinitely
- Australian vaccination rates are at an all-time high after government removes anti-vaxxers’ benefits
- NASA has selected six private U.S. companies to develop concepts and prototypes of deep space habitats for Mars
Hope you enjoy these!
-D