McFilter: February 2020 Archives

February 24, 2020

2+ years of militancy in universities: What do we know and where do we go? Looking at the UCU strike action and thinking about what else can be done.
Can the regulation of hazardous substances help us think about regulation of AI? Really nice way to frame how we should be regulating development of AI and machine learning.
Dark Brexit "Our task is to win the post-Brexit settlement here in Britain. More specifically — to stop the [ERG and hard Brexit-types] from winning." This.
Saving the Internet—and all the commons it makes possible. Doc Searls' recent Ostrom Memorial Lecture, which lays out how we need to get better at explaining (and protecting) the open source commons to everyone.

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How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class. We should all heed the mantra of the company who wrote the embedded Javascript engine I once worked with, who called their company Nombas, because they wanted No MBAs working there...
Decarbonization. Tim Bray doing an excellent blog post on how his family has decarbed.
The Met police in London are doing more surveillance to reduce crime, despite a study they were in finding that it didn't provide much help.
Replacing Middle Management with APIs "the worker bees below the software layer have no opportunity for on-the-job training that advances their career, and compassionate social connections don’t pierce the software layer either."

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