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List of good reads
- Two good reads on surveillance and technology. Quartz reports on the quiet ways in which Zoom is cooperating with China’s crackdown on dissent. NBC News covers the array of monitoring software that allows employers to keep close tabs on their WFH employees.
- BBC News got exclusive access to Mumbai’s KEM hospital. This is what the frontline looks like. Ok, this is a must-watch rather than a must-read.
- Los Angeles Times has a great read on how Sandra Oh layers her Korean ethnicity on to her character in ‘Killing Eve’.
- Two good Indian media reads: News Laundry digs into the financing and ownership of the rightwing site OpIndia. Huffington Post reports on the ugly and insensitive layoffs over at The Hindu.
- Two good literary reads: Four critics and editors talk to Scroll about how the pandemic has made close reading a difficult task. Eight translators speak to Huffington Post about their favourite work and what work they’d love to see in translation.
- For sci-fi dystopia fans, Wired reports on a new algorithm that claims to use facial recognition to predict criminality.
- This fascinating Big Think video explores how psychopaths think and behave. No, they’re not all killers or serial rapists.