As I mentioned a few times, this exact same thing happened to me many years ago, here in Texas.  Complained but only got vague answers back.  I really think that if you are going to send people to jail for voting improperly (even by accident) then removing people from voting like this, with no notice, needs to be taken more seriously People need to go to jail.  This is a rampant systematic crime in many parts of the US and nobody seems interested in addressing it.

Black mayor of Kansas City not allowed to vote because his name was missing from “the system”

From WBUR:

Newly Found Letters Show How Texas Longhorns Delayed Integration

I’ve often wondered what will happen as climate change progresses.  Costal properties, usually owned by the wealthiest, are being slowly destroyed.  Holding back the ocean, like King Canute, isn’t really an option.  But when vast investments by the wealthiest of us are at risk, I suspect people will try. Who gets stuck with the bill is the more interesting question.

We shouldn’t have to pay for Jack Dorsey’s $40m estate when it crumbles into the sea

By using public money to protect California homes from climate change, the state is transferring wealth from working-class people of color to white property owners

From 2017.  Will this war of facts and science become, uh, problematic?  Tune in tomorrow …..

Trump Administration Reportedly Instructs CDC On Its Own Version Of 7 Dirty Words

The latest wave of Artificial Intelligence debates continues, but it is really just the same old debate.  Edsger Dykstra summed it up many years ago:. The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

From The American Scholar.

No Ghost in the Machine

Artificial intelligence isn’t as intelligent as you think

From that fine news organization, The Daily Mail:

Mother reveals her husband and two sons from LA community less than 10 miles from Kim Kardashian’s home are among 15 friends who have tested positive for coronavirus following trip to exclusive Italian ski resort

From Bloomberg:

No Conveyor Belt Sushi: Japan Adapts to New Normal of the Virus

From the BBC:

Texas ice cream licker jailed for social media joke

I have noticed that no matter how good a restaurant or business is someone on-line will bash it with a one star review.  An artist has taken one star reviews from various National Parks and made them into posters.

Subpar Parks

From Salon, but original reporting is from The Guardian (UK).  The real question is why are there any pollling places closing in a growing state.

“Voter suppression, plain and simple”: Texas closed hundreds of polling sites in black, Latino areas

Counties with largest minority population growth saw 2.5M new residents and 542 closures. Whiter areas had just 34