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“Your debt is someone else’s asset”

…a short film from The Intercept, Mollie Crabapple and co., and Astra Taylor. Via BoingBoing. You can never have enough reminders about the levers of social control…

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This year marks the 42nd anniversary of the American release of The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy. Here are some wonderful thoughts on its ongoing cultural impact published over at 3 Quarks Daily.

Speaking of social control *cough*

Apple hobbled a crucial tool of dissent in China weeks before widespread protests broke out….borking AirDrop in China on behalf of that country’s totalitarian regime. #ThinkDifferent indeed.

This is how you do it. [Starts at 18:30 mark]

Pretty normal pre-game press conference from Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel…there’s usually a gem in each, & his notion of gratitude & responsibility to everyone around him has been a consistent vibe since he took over the team.

“Now is a good time to take steps to lock down your Twitter account, grab what data you can, review where you’re using Twitter to sign in to other online services, and delete anything you’d rather not live on a site that may be on its last legs. Taking these steps could protect you from identity theft or private messages being made public. And for activists or journalists in repressive countries, archiving and locking down Twitter data could be even more essential.”

Source: NY Times: Why Every Twitter User Should Archive and Lock Down Their Data | Wirecutter

This:

“It has become fashionable for VCs to talk about how all these tech companies are overstaffed,” wrote Emily Mazo, an organizer with the labor advocacy group Collective Action in Tech, in an email. “Any of the workers who just got laid off will likely tell you that they were in fact understaffed, that they were working much more than 40 hours a week even before half their teams were fired, and that they have long lists of things they wanted to build but didn’t have the hands for. But workers are the first ones to be hurt in a downturn moment.”

Source: via SLATE: Amazon, Facebook, Twitter layoffs: Where will newly unemployed tech workers go?