happy mutants Machine learning is innately conservative and wants you to either act like everyone else, or never change Cory Doctorow

uk The UK unemployment rate is at least three times the official rate Cory Doctorow

scholarship Automatically generate datasets that teach people how (not) to create statistical mirages Cory Doctorow

deaths Map of 900 deaths in the Grand Canyon Rob Beschizza

guns The problem with "Red Flag" gun laws Thom Dunn

google OpenAI said to be launching search engine on Monday, directly targeting Google's Rob Beschizza

Art and Design Why school buses all look alike Carolyn Townsend

social media "Who has seen a heavily pregnant woman since 2021?" — Naomi Wolf suggests that no one is giving birth Mark Frauenfelder

rescues 6 hikers stuck on Mt. Baldy wearing only hoodies airlifted days after woman's body was found (video) Carla Sinclair

crime Carnival Cruise Line's per capita sexual assault rate is higher than most U.S. states Jennifer Sandlin

gouging French supermarket giant Carrefour removes Pepsi, Doritos and Quaker cereals from shelves over "unacceptable price increases" Rob Beschizza

public health "The damage from inaction is enormous" — Rising threat of Asian Tiger Mosquito across the US Mark Frauenfelder

education Liberty University, toxic site for sex crimes, says the big problem is the that White House leaked evidence of sex crimes coverup Mark Frauenfelder

capitalism "Discard Studies" argues that "social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things" Jennifer Sandlin

twitter Fortune claims Elon Musk has only 40,000 subcribers on Twitter, equivalent to a marginally successful OnlyFans account Rob Beschizza

economics New US Treasury report confirms that unions are good for everybody Thom Dunn

corruption Why would Ron DeSantis help cover up a police scandal? Jason Weisberger

documentaries No Way Home: a new documentary about life without parole Elías Villoro

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