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It is perhaps worth noting that in 2011 a researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm noticed that people who had had their tonsils removed while young had a 44 percent greater chance of having a heart attack in later life. Of course, the two events may only be coincidentally related, but in the absence of conclusive evidence it suggests that it might be prudent to leave the tonsils alone. The same study also found that people who kept their appendixes had a 33 percent reduced chance of a heart attack in middle age.
Zuboffian theories of data extraction as “strip-mining” our inner lives may sound compelling against companies like Facebook, but we should be wary of the limits of such theory for any kind of positive social democratic or democratic socialist agenda.
Data Governance for a Society of Equals
lpeproject.org
Journeys to work accounted for just 15 to 20 percent of trips, even before the pandemic. More than half of all trips in the U.S. were under three miles.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
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