Mon. 11/01 - "Behind The Joy Are The Algorithms"

A meditation on streaming entertainment, algorithms, and David Foster Wallace’s prescient writing on the illusion of choice. Plus, a possible functional cure for HIV has just been approved to enter human trials. And, the Wampanoag woman who grew heirloom corn on its original land for the first time in over three centuries.

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Links:

• How David Foster Wallace Anticipated Netflix’s Digital Gatekeeping (Literary Hub)
• Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries
• One Complaint Per Table (Kottke.org)
• A Possible “Functional Cure” for HIV Will Soon Begin Human Trials (them.)
• Excision BioTherapeutics to Proceed with HIV Clinical Trial (Philadelphia Magazine)
• HIV/AIDS (WHO)
• Covid's global death toll now tops 5 million (NBC News)
• Covid death toll overtakes that of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. (Boing Boing)
• A Mashpee Wampanoag woman reconnects with a traditional corn (WCAI NPR) 
• King Philip Corn (Truelove Seeds)
• King Phillip Corn - Arca del Gusto - Slow Food Foundation (Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity)
• Panic, lockdown and a rush to vaccinate in Tonga as first Covid case recorded (The Guardian)
• Covid Zero: China Locks Guests Inside Disneyland for Testing After Shanghai Case (Bloomberg)
• Vax declared Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year (BBC)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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