scholarship Training bias in AI "hate speech detector" means that tweets by Black people are far more likely to be censored Cory Doctorow
not food The real meaning of plantation tours: American Downton Abbey vs American Horror Story Cory Doctorow
Business Survey finds high levels of harassment in multiplayer games, as well as white supremacist recruiting attempts Cory Doctorow
law Heirs' property: how southern states allow white land developers to steal reconstruction-era land from Black families Cory Doctorow
health How Memphis's Methodist University Hospital, a "nonprofit," sued the shit out of its Black, poor patients while raking in millions and paying execs more than a million each Cory Doctorow
usausausa Reverse mortgages: subprime's "stealth aftershock" that is costing elderly African-Americans their family homes Cory Doctorow
History Remembering Velma Demerson: Grand soul, feminist, human rights advocate and writer Harry Kopyto
class war Connecticut's racist NIMBYs have used zoning laws and dirty tricks to make it one of the most unequal, racially segregated states in the union Cory Doctorow
gender TOSsed out: EFF catalogs the perverse ways that platform moderation policies hurt the people they're supposed to protect Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Bernie Sanders' "Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education" will desegregate schools, defund charters, pay teachers, end the school-to-prison pipeline Cory Doctorow
health Elizabeth Warren's bold, risky, well-intentioned plan to improve health outcomes for African-American mothers giving birth Cory Doctorow
class war A former college admissions dean explains the mundane reverse affirmative action that lets the rich send their kids to the front of the line Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon's staffing up a news vertical full of crime stories designed to scare you into buying a spying, snitching "smart" doorbell Cory Doctorow
events To do in NYC next Sat, May 11: "The Bigot in the Machine," a panel on algorithmic bias from PEN and McSweeney's Cory Doctorow
class war Ghost warrants: US cops routinely arrest people for warrants that were canceled long ago, and lock them up for months before discovering the error Cory Doctorow
