Reading list
Shortform reading
This is an incomplete list of the shortform reading (and listening and watching) I’ve been doing lately.
The Ungodly Surveillance of Anti-Porn 'Shameware' Apps
Churches are using invasive phone-monitoring tech to discourage "sinful" behavior. Some software is seeing more than congregants realize.
Report: Pandemic amped up anti-Semitism, forced it online
Although instances of violence against Jews were fewer across many countries in 2020, online antisemitism intensified, stoking fears among some researchers that it will move offline as lockdowns lift. Jews were one of many ethnic and religious groups targeted with conspiracy theories that they had created and/or spread the virus, and antisemitism has been a prominent theme in other conspiracy theories and rhetoric about vaccines, pandemic restrictions, and various organizations working to control the pandemic.