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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Trench Fever

Intellectual life is beset by a climate of censoriousness and self-censorship; Twitter gets the final say. Thomas Chatterton Williams Researchers analysed Media Dragons and they all look the sameexplains the Harper’s Letter  


The race to save the first draft of coronavirus history from internet oblivion technologyreview.com/2020/04/21/999








Facsimiles, telegrams and cassettes: NSW's outdated language and laws

Remember cassettes, facsimile machines and even telegrams? They are some of the outdated words still used in NSW laws.


 

Google Promises Privacy With Virus App But Can Still Collection Location Data New York Times

 

New challenges to transfers of personal data from the EU to the United StatesBruegel

 
 

An Ickier Outbreak: Trench Fever Spread by Lice Is Found in Denver KHN. Third world. Hep A in LA due to feces in public and now this


Ex-New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver gets prison Syracuse 

The Left is Now the Right Matt Taibbi 


 Paul Davis On Crime: William Boyd: The Spies Who Lived Here: How I Found James Bond’s Precise Address


NY Dems Created McConnell’s Corporate Immunity Template Amid A Flood of Cash David Sirota, Too Much Information (GF). Well, just because one party comes up with a good idea doesn’t mean the other party shouldn’t adopt it.



Trump shifts rhetoric as he urges mask-wearing, warns of worsening pandemicReuters

As Trump Threatens Secret Police Deployment Nationwide, Democrats Debate Expanding Surveillance Powers and New Money for DHS The Intercept. Biden will need that.


Different Names, Same Address: How Big Businesses Got Government Loans Meant for Small Businesses Pro Publica



MIT engineers designed an affordable, reusable face mask that’s as effective as an N95 — take a look CNBC 


Traitor Joe’s …

… Chicago Boyz — Oh, FFS!

“Scientific advisors should not tell policy-makers what they want to hear, but, rather, what they ought to want to hear” — Stephen John (Cambridge) on expertise, policy, and the pandemic

Inclusion in philosophy — a video of a discussion between Charles Mills, Linda Alcoff, & Shelley Tremain, hosted by Matt LaVine & Dwight Lewis of the Larger, Freer, More Loving Podcast


“Radical Classical Liberals” — a new group political philosophy blog

Philosophy in a Time of Coronavirus: a short series of videos — from the philosophers at the University of York


A 19th Century moral philosopher you probably have not heard of crafted an “original synthesis of Kantianism, intuitionism, theism and anti-utilitarianism” — Alison Stone (Lancaster) tells us about the philosophy of Frances Power Cobbe

“Reactionary Liberalism”: a useful coinage for understanding tensions “internal to liberalism for ages” — “between those who take the associative nature of liberal society seriously and those who are determined not to”

“Despite appearing as mutually exclusive opposites, horror and comedy are related as cousins under the skin” — Noël Carroll (CUNY) explains

Whether a ratings chase or ideological war, News Corp’s coronavirus coverage is dangerous (The Conversation 22.7.20)

By DENIS MULLER | On 26 July 2020

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation… has become a clear and present danger to the welfare of Australian society. What a  contrast between The Daily Telegraph’s coverage of the Ruby Princess debacle (Coalition government in New South Wales) and the Herald Sun’s coverage of the hotel quarantine debacle (Labor government in Victoria).

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