happy mutants Chasing down that list of potential Predpol customers reveals dozens of cities that have secretly experimented with "predictive policing" Cory Doctorow
Science A Scheme of Heaven is a deep investigation of astrology from a scientist’s perspective Ferdinando Buscema
Gadgets Become an in-demand project manager with the help of this accredited training Boing Boing's Shop
tabloids Predator priests, Game of Thrones, and why Italians don’t use Viagra, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
police Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law Cory Doctorow
china Leaked documents document China's plan for mass arrests and concentration-camp internment of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow
futurism A timeline of (possible, fascinating) future events from a (wide) variety of perspectives Cory Doctorow
computer science "Intellectual Debt": It's bad enough when AI gets its predictions wrong, but it's potentially WORSE when AI gets it right Cory Doctorow
corruption Mysterious New Orleans "anti-crime" camera emblazoned with NOPD logos outside surveillance contractor's house is disavowed by NOPD Cory Doctorow
Business Police cameras to be augmented with junk-science "microexpression" AI lie-detectors Cory Doctorow
Science Global sea levels could rise 6 feet by year 2100, twice as high as previous estimates Xeni Jardin
security Towards a method for fixing machine learning's persistent and catastrophic blind spots Cory Doctorow
corruption Beyond GIGO: how "predictive policing" launders racism, corruption and bias to make them seem empirical Cory Doctorow
