Republican state AGs were in the majority…until this months election, when the majority flipped, with the most climate-denying AGs (in Michigan, Colorado, Wisconsin and Nevada) losing their jobs to Dems… Read the rest of the article: This month, the climate-denyingist red state AGs lost their jobs to Dems: time to sue the US government
CIT computer scientist Milan Cvitkovic conducted 46 in-depth interviews with "scientists, engineers, and CEOs" and collated their machine learning research needs into an aptly named paper entitled "Some Requests for… Read the rest of the article: What's missing from machine learning research: an East African perspective
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (previously), the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, has proposed abolishing Columbus Day (which honors a raping, murdering, enslaving, genocidal pedophile) and replacing it with a day off… Read the rest of the article: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: abolish Columbus Day, replace it with Voting Day
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Zeynep Tufekci (previously) says that Big Tech's "engagement maximization" algorithms meant that any time you talked about Alex Jones critically, the algorithms would start relentlessly recommending that you watch some… Read the rest of the article: A successful no-platforming means we can talk about Alex Jones again
Concealed Online is an anonymously owned (the owner won't divulge his identity due to fear of reprisals) company whose customers complain scammed them by tricking them into taking its online… Read the rest of the article: Concealed Carry scammers spent $2m on gunhumper scare-ads on Facebook during the 2018 midterms
Donald Trump says that the reason California's forests are on fire is that Californians don't rake their forest floors to clear potential fuel, the way the Finns do.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has stated that the free market "is not working" and as a result, regulation of the tech sector is "inevitable."
Pope Francis continues his streak of fighting for economic justice (though he's an unrepentant monster on abortion, women's rights, and the rights of queer people).
Fuck Zuck, sure, but what about Sheryl Sandberg?
Science fiction writer/lawyer Casey Fiesler is a maven in the field of tech ethics education (she maintains the amazing spreadsheet of tech-ethics syllabi); she uses science fiction stories as a… Read the rest of the article: How to use science fiction to teach tech ethics
In March 2018, Nathan Ganas was murdered in his driveway in Durban, South Africa, during a botched hijacking; now Momentum, the insurer who wrote the 2.4m Rand (USD 170,700) policy… Read the rest of the article: Insurer won't pay murdered gunshot victim's family because he didn't disclose his high blood-sugar
When Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai killed Net Neutrality (by deliberately ignoring comments from actual humans in favor of comments left by obvious bots), he said that removing regulation from… Read the rest of the article: Trump's FCC seems to have ended the practice of releasing its ISP speed-tests, leaving Americans in the dark about what they're paying for
Iain Heath writes, "I recreated the 'distracted boyfriend' meme using LEGO bricks." You certainly did, Iain, and very well, too!
The era of finance capitalism is marked by a curious shift in the desire of the business world: to get out of the business of making things people use, and… Read the rest of the article: Ford CEO frankly admits that the car of the future is a surveillance device that you pay to spy on you
Damien Noll sez, "My skulls and bones are all burned (like black line tattoo) using just a magnifying lens and sunshine."
The only way for the party of old white dudes, rape, forced pregnancies, Islamophobia, homophobia, selfishness, pollution, climate denial, unchecked police violence and murder, xenophobia and hatred of Latinx people… Read the rest of the article: White supremacy, minus gerrymandering: California GOP reduced to "third party status"
Reason's December issue celebrates the magazine's 50th anniversary with a series of commissioned pieces on the past and future of the magazine's subjects: freedom, markets, property rights, privacy and similar… Read the rest of the article: Sole and Despotic Dominion: my story about the future of private property for Reason
Cindy Hyde-Smith is a Mississipi GOP Senator is going into a runoff election against her Democratic opponent, Black man named Mike Espy who might end up the first Black Mississipi… Read the rest of the article: Google donated $5k to GOP Senator who "joked" about attending a lynching with her Black opponent
For a generation, big box stores have swept across America, using predatory pricing and other dirty tricks to kill the independent retail sector; they used their corporate lobbying muscle to… Read the rest of the article: America's big box stores sucked up corporate welfare and killed Main Street — now they're ducking property tax
