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February 3, 2020: David Courtwright, author, "The Age of Addiction"
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Tonight: Prof. David Courtwright, author, "The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business"
• David Courtwright, Professor, University of North Florida
• The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
Items for today:
• Google’s tearjerker Super Bowl ad is sad and creepy (The Verge, Jan 29): "Given all the ways it collects data on us, it’s depressing to consider that Google apparently doesn’t see anything unsettling about an ad that highlights a grieving widower providing the search giant with even more personal details."
• via emptywheel (Feb 2): "Jeebus people! That ad was about Google seamlessly sucking up your most personal memories over a 50 year relationship. That's not sweet! That's horrible."
• Google Maps Hacks by Simon Weckert, 2020. Simon writes (Feb 1): "99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route!" (And past Techtonic guest Roger McNamee writes: "Google Maps uses load balancing to keep traffic moving smoothly, which means you may be sent on an inferior route so it moves smoothly for most people. People are fighting back with hacks, creating virtual traffic jams.")
• Here Are the Most Common Airbnb Scams Worldwide (Jan 31): "Nearly 1,000 people flooded our inbox with their stories. We found some patterns." Bait and switch, plumbing scams, money scams, fake damages, running out the clock until refund window expires, and on and on and on.
• via HighWireTalk (Jan 31): "'It’s evil. There’s really no other word for it.' RT Electronic patient records systems used by 1000s of doctors were programmed to automatically suggest opioids at treatment, thanks to a secret deal between the software maker & a drug company." Talking about this Bloomberg story (Jan 29): Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker.
• Founder of Opioid Maker Sentenced to 5½ Years in Prison (WSJ, Jan 23): "Prosecutors portrayed Dr. Kapoor as the leader of a mail- and wire-fraud conspiracy keeping a close watch over the company’s bribery of doctors, which it masked as speaking fees, and its efforts to win reimbursement for the drug by lying to insurers about patients’ diagnoses."
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I'm decadent and awful, but still: quitting smoking was the hardest thing I ever accomplished, and I didn't even do it until U.S. society had really started supporting that choice by curtailing the weaponization of addiction, especially through taxes. Quitting smartphones when there are no obvious social or economic curbs on them? That sounds ... really hard. I don't envy people who have to do it.
But as you say, the economic and social costs are displaced, hidden, and aimed at sectors that aren't worth preserving, capitalisitically speaking.
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