Dig your way through Bye Bye Workforce. Read all the links. Strong stuff. One sample:
On a musical note, I want to hear the rest of this Connor Morrison piece.
I’ve ordered danah boyd‘s new book, Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census, from the University of Chicago Press. danah, who is brilliant, teaches at Cornell these days, but will also be on tour. A schedule is at that last link. So is this:
This book is an ethnography of the 2020 census. By documenting the perspectives of government workers, Data Are Made, Not Found provides a rare glimpse into what it takes to make democracy’s data. Each chapter reveals a different challenge—ranging from the last-minute fights about a citizenship question to the not-so-helpful help of well-intended stakeholders to avoid undercounts—and shows how civil servants responded to each problem, controversy, and hurdle. Many of the challenges that the Census Bureau faced in 2020 resulted from decades of political operatives, data users, and various stakeholders playing what I call “Jenga politics,” weakening the administrative state for short-term political gains by removing support and adding more requirements.
Because, as Phil Windley explains, Authentication Is Largely Solved. Authorization Isn’t, his new book is Authorization in Action.
In Marxism and Randism, Dana Blankenhorn explains how Ayn Rand is the Karl Marx of our time. I’ll say they do rhyme, in a way.
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