Links

For today’s links, I’ve broken things into the depressing list and the happy / interesting list. First up, the depressing list:

  1. “…when a shrinking work force cannot foot the pension bill…”
  2. How connected car tech is eroding personal privacy
  3. Employers are using workplace wearables to find out how happy and productive we are
  4. Microsoft singlehandedly proves that golden backdoor encryption keys are a terrible idea
  5. On Twitter, abuse is not just a bug, but a fundamental feature.
  6. Policing isn’t just broken in Ferguson or Baltimore. It’s broken in America.
  7. The federal government is finally making police report every time they kill someone
  8. 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:

  1. Never pee on a jellyfish sting
  2. Turns out there’s no actual evidence that honey lasts indefinitely
  3. Australian vaccination rates are at an all-time high after government removes anti-vaxxers’ benefits
  4. NASA has selected six private U.S. companies to develop concepts and prototypes of deep space habitats for Mars

Hope you enjoy these!

-D

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