“The problem is that this authority has been bestowed too hastily. Algorithms are increasingly found to be making mistakes. Whether it’s a sexist hiring algorithm developed by Amazon, conspiracy theories promoted by the Google search engine or an IBM facial-recognition program that didn’t work nearly as well on black women as on white men, we’ve seen that large companies that pride themselves on their technical prowess are having trouble navigating this terrain.”
“Everyone should be presumptively able to vote.”
“What I’ve Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News“.
On doxxing trolls.
“What It’s Like to Lose a Million Dollars to an Online Dating Scam”.
“Donald Trump’s outrageous behavior described by the special counsel is, at this point, so deeply familiar that it has lost its power to outrage.”
“But the American part of this will be 1.7 billion. We have no plans for any further-on funding for this.”
“Whatever his method, Holzhauer is far exceeding the show’s average single-day winnings, which a Jeopardy fan website calculated to be $19,980. With his sometimes six-figure daily prizes, how much damage is Holzhauer doing to the show’s finances?”
RIP, Jacqui Saburido, the face of a major anti-drunk driving campaign in Texas.
“This Was Supposed to Be a Story About a Bizarre Anti-Vaccine Rally and a Sedated Bear. Then It Got Weird.”
FYI, the “It was just a joke!” defense only works if the joke is funny. As someone who has helped write a couple of MOB halftime show scripts, trust me on this one.
“Biden’s Shock-and-Awe Strategy for 2020 Race Smells Like Jeb’s in 2016″.
“Each month, 5 billion prerecorded spam calls target American phones. Because the software enabling robocalls is legal, how can the problem be stopped?”
“Meanwhile, in Arivaca, the memory of young Brisenia Flores lives on.”
Turns out Damian Lillard is pretty good at taking extra-long shots.
“Wait, why are you even reading THE FEDERALIST PAPERS? They’re a blatant sales job to sell the new Constitution, not an honest debate.”
RIP, John Havlicek, Boston Celtics legend and basketball Hall of Famer.
“Now, the last thing we want to do is make Ken Starr and his corrupt investigation a model of anything. But it is an instructive contrast. By any reasonable standard of ‘what seems to have happened’, Mueller unearthed lots of evidence of collusion.”
“This year the London Marathon is making some big changes and trialling a number of ideas to try to make the event more green.”