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Sunday Paper - Facial Recognition and Civil Liberties, Dream Colleges and the Democratic Communist Party, Geeks and Nerds, 5G, Mental Fatigue

Posted on 30th June 2019
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Facial Recognition Tech Straight Out of 'Robocop' Could Be a Real Threat to Civil Liberties Civil-liberties concerns have driven California lawmakers to consider Assembly Bill 1215, which would ban police agencies from using facial and biometric tracking devices as part of their body cameras. "Having every patrol officer constantly scanning faces of everyone that walks into their field of view to identify people, run their records, and record their location and activities is positively Orwellian," said ACLU attorney Peter Bibring.…

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Sunday Paper - Social Media Algorithms and Creativity, Digital Nomads, Republicans for the Rule of Law

Posted on 9th June 2019

Social media algorithms are limiting creativity and subliminally controlling your world view First things first: there’s no image of any sort in this post, which is rare for me. It’s a silent protest against the fact that whether this link and thus its contents get disseminated to people who subscribe to my social media feeds (FB, IG, Twitter) and read or not is almost entirely down to some self-curating algorithms. The alarmist and provocative title are deliberate attempts to play…

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Posted on 30th April 2019

In this special episode of Intelligence Squared U.S., John Donvan sits down with Arthur Brooks, one of America’s leading political thinkers and outgoing president of the American Enterprise Institute to discuss a bold premise: loving your enemies.…

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The Green New Deal is … not a serious policy proposal

Posted on 2nd March 2019

The Green New Deal is a pipe dream, not a serious policy proposal The GND represents the deficient economic thinking of a new generation of U.S. policymakers. There are much more cost-effective ways of dealing with greenhouse gases, including taxing carbon emissions and dealing with the growing pollution problems in rapidly developing countries such as China and India. ... More broadly, the command-and-control implementation of the GND, in which over 50 percent of the economy would pass through the hands…

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Posted on 27th February 2019

All told, then, the prospect of conspicuously wearing an obviously redundant declaration of gender identity as both a political in-group identifier and a standing order of personal-label prescriptivism simply does not fit me well. The thought of it makes me squirm, like wearing a shirt with horizontal stripes, or a shade of red that simply doesn’t become me. It’s asking me to add a new, highly visible element to the way I have long dressed, and it clashes. With all…

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