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November 16, 2020: Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, editors, "Voices from the Valley"

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Tonight: Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, editors, "Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It"

Interview pointers:

• Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do--and How They Do It, edited by Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel

• Logic Magazine, co-founded by Ben and Moira

• On Twitter: @BenTarnoff and @MoiraGWeigel

• FSG Originals × Logic: book series including What Tech Calls Thinking by Adrian Daub, Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang, and Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang - as well as Ben and Moira's Voices from the Valley.

• JavaScript is for Girls (by Miriam Posner in Logic Magazine, March 15, 2017): "I've noticed something strange: the women who are so assiduously learning to code seem to be devaluing certain tech roles simply by occupying them."

• When Computers Were Women (by Jennifer Light in Technology and Culture, July 1999)

• Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks

• Clive Thompson on the April 25, 2019 Techtonic

• Ben and Moira also mention Vivian Gornick and Studs Terkel as inspirations.

Tech news:

• Amazon's Ring has recalled 350,000 smart doorbells in the US after some of them caught fire (Business Insider, Nov 11): "Amazon-owned Ring is recalling 350,000 smart doorbells in the US after reports of some of them catching fire, giving eight people minor burns."

• The Hot New Covid Tech Is Wearable and Constantly Tracks You (by Natasha Singer, NYT, Nov 15, 2020): "Many employers and colleges have adopted virus screening tools like symptom-checking apps and temperature-scanning cameras. But they are not designed to catch the estimated 40 percent of people with Covid-19 infections who may never develop symptoms like fevers."

• Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says (Ars Technica, Nov 9, 2020): "Despite promising end-to-end encryption, the FTC said that 'Zoom maintained the cryptographic keys that could allow Zoom to access the content of its customers' meetings, and secured its Zoom Meetings, in part, with a lower level of encryption than promised.'"

• And then this...


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