#CreativeCommons

Predictive policing tools work really well: they perfectly predict what the police will do. Specifically, they predict whom the police will accuse of crimes, and since only accused people are
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In Olden Days, people who worked for an employer got a pension. The pension would pay $X/month (a percentage of your salary), maybe indexed to inflation. That was a pension
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Things are very dire. The world is aflame. Our political will is in tatters. But despite all this, there are leverage points, where a small intervention can have gigantic consequences.
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I want to discuss the research, publications, images & data #GLAMs produce about nature. I want to try to explain to you what GLAM #NaturalHistory collections mean to me. How
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In the early days of the pandemic, the UK pursued a plan that was developed for a less contagious, less lethal flu pandemic, which proposed deliberately allowing the disease to
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Trumpism is an incompetent death cult. While the movement's incompetence (embodied by the inability of many of its worst monsters to keep their jobs long enough to enact their key
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Last summer, I did an interview with the Singularity Blog podcast (my last interview was all the way back in 2012). As is my wont, I got to talking about
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The Australian National University is insisting that students install "invigilation" software that monitors their computer use to prevent cheating during tests.This is incredibly worrisome.https://www.woroni.com.au/news/analysis-the-issues-
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You've probably noticed that there's a lot of bad stuff going on with the US Postal Service, the most popular US government agency (91% favorable rating!). Trump has definitely been
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If you only follow one person on Uber, make it Hubert Horan, a transport analyst who's been writing about the sector for 40+ years and has written 23 articles analyzing
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During the pandemic, classical musicians and orchestras are reliant on streaming their performances to maintain their profile and solicit donations. That's a problem, because the platforms' copyright bots HATE classical
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1/ Today, I finally present to you: differential object marking (DOM) in Balto-Finnic languages (also called Finnic or (Balto-)Fennic). In these languages, object marking is used to express a bunch
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To read @BretStevensNYT in the @nytimes ("there should be no big-pharma haters in pandemics"), you'd think that remdesivir, the promising covid treatment, was the result of Big Pharma's big R&D
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Reality - especially epidemiology - has a distinct leftist bias, which almost makes you feel sorry for right-wing ideologues like @mayoroflasvegas Carolyn Goodman, who says that every business in town
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#Pluralistic is my mutli-channel publishing effort - a project to push the limits of #POSSE (post own site, share everywhere) that allows me to maintain control over my work while
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#Iowa's HSB 272 ("An Act relating to tax collection and penalties, tax permits and loans made by state-chartered banks") is the kind of bureaucratic maneuver Woody Guthrie's meant with, "Some
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