new york The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow

videos Dallas police shootings and #blacklivesmatter Cory Doctorow

israel CNN journalists complain of Gaza reportage bias Natalie Dressed

research Manosphere grifters misuse evolutionary psychology to promote anti-feminist views Jennifer Sandlin

donald trump Trump's son spins wild narrative: Father's legal battles akin to centuries of racial injustice Mark Frauenfelder

Official report denounces London police force as full of "sex pests and racists" getting away with misconduct Rob Beschizza

racism Battle of the victims: how Asian hate and the housing crisis collide in the city Maddie Lee

Jen Psaki Jen Psaki has great fun with reporter's question on universities that "indoctrinate" students Carla Sinclair

LGBTQ Vermont on track to ban the gay-, trans-panic defense Jess Sabine

racism The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has officially changed the definition of "racism." Thom Dunn

privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

picks Can anti-transgender bias in media be measured? Andrea James

Business Amazon shareholders to vote on proposal to stop selling racially biased facial surveillance software to governments Xeni Jardin

california Good news: California ends cash bail! Bad news: It's been replaced with a black-box algorithm. Cory Doctorow

Science Mental health of black people harmed by police murders of unarmed black people, says medical research Séamus Bellamy

happy mutants XOXO will be bigger and more inclusive in 2018 Rusty Blazenhoff

law Here's the Starbucks racial bias training video employees saw Andrea James

Business The Wall Street Journal on the decade since the crash: inequality, giant banks, regulatory failures, looming catastrophe Cory Doctorow

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