Today's links

1. Pickled 2001 computer store: Deadstock ahoy!
2. A farewell to APIs: Greed, spam and entropy killed mashups.
3. Machine learning model performs butthole recognition: Peak Internet of Shit.
4. Covid loteria cards: Cabronavirus.
5. California's fiber for all bill: Tell your senator to support SB1130.
6. 1978 Doonesbury stereotype: Come for the Indochina political humor, stay for the printer's lore.
7. LA crime plummets: Down 23% (domestic violence is down 11%).
8. US stimulus is one week's cash: Deflation ahoy.
9. Private equity blinks on cuts to health workers' wages: Speeding up slow destruction makes it impossible to ignore.
10. Virtual greenscreen: Incredible computer science paper from the 2020 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
11. Landlord changes church's locks: The pastor of Cross Culture Christian Center in Lodi, CA refused to stop holding services.
12. This day in history: 2010, 2019
13. Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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