A good read from Salon.
Public health expert: The pandemic is here — but compassion and common sense will get us through
The View from Nowhere
A good write up, practically an autopsy, on the Bernie Sanders Democratic candidacy. It is more of a discussion of the US mainstream media and how it ends up actually missing the big stories and supporting the status quo.
Political journalists are eager to kick Bernie Sanders on his way out the door
Bernie’s not imagining it: He makes political reporters personally uncomfortable, and they hate him for it
More Voter Disenfranchisement
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”
King Canute, 21st Century Version
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
Diversity Entitlement Evidence-based Fetus Science-based Transgender Vulnerable
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
No Ghost in the Machine
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
Steven A. Guccione 