usausausa Nuanced profile of the Oklahoma County where "no one believes in climate change" Cory Doctorow

Science Scientists have mapped 20 percent of the ocean floor David Pescovitz

Gadgets Nearly 200,000 happy students can’t be wrong about this machine learning-AI deep dive training Boing Boing's Shop

Science Coronavirus 'acts like no pathogen humanity has ever seen,' say doctors Xeni Jardin

interviews Talking adventure games with Olivia Wood Jeffery Klaehn

COVID-19 Politico asked 34 big thinkers to predict how the coronapocalypse will permanently change our world Gareth Branwyn

native americans The Trump administration is blowing up a religious burial site to make room for their stupid wall Thom Dunn

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

Science CLIMATE: 2019 was hottest year on record, NASA and NOAA report Xeni Jardin

privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow

books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow

denialism A new biography reveals the Koch brothers' very early role in creating organized climate denial 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

psychology Eminent psychologists condemn "emotion detection" systems as being grounded in junk science Cory Doctorow

computer science AI is like a magic trick: amazing until it goes wrong, then revealed as a cheap and brittle effect Cory Doctorow

Business Vast majority of truck-driving jobs are not under threat from automation Cory Doctorow

happy mutants How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell's case for resisting "The Attention Economy" Cory Doctorow

News Teens 'not damaged by screen time', new Oxford study finds Xeni Jardin

happy mutants The third annual AI Now report: 10 more ways to make AI safe for human flourishing Cory Doctorow

trump Deadly Novichok dose 'came from bottle' in victim's house Xeni Jardin