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“In fact these Turk’s business are everyone’s”

The novelty song “Istanbul (not Constantinople)” famously said that “It was nobody’s business, but the Turks,” but when it comes to tech, it’s everybody’s.  Rhea and Thelonious discuss exploitive Mechanical Turk labor at Amazon and Uber, a new iPhone app that can detect critical and non-critical COVID-19 cases based on skin conditions, and discuss the infamous White House Cubic Fit model.