The shame industrial complex is booming

This is a review of Cathy O'Neil's book The Shame Machine. I haven't read it but her earlier book "Weapons of Math Destruction" is great.

related piece/discussion from the new yorker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30810085

The NYT is cashing in that’s for sure

I easily skip over that paywall using Firefox's "Toggle reader view (F9)" option. Need to time it correctly, but it's not too hard.

Just turn off javascript.