Paul Conroy surveys the scale of the destruction to the Svaytoshinsky neighbourhood, fifteen minutes from downtown Kyiv
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The United States has been in the throes of a mental health and overdose crisis so severe it has spanned five presidential administrations and been classified as an official state of emergency in three of them. No one knows exactly how this emergency will play out during the current Trumpian cocktail of uncertainty, fear, and cuts to social services, but charts of the recent turbulence of the stock market suggest a relevant visual: imagine the nervous systems of millions of already struggling Americans, along with millions more who are being pushed to the limits of what they can handle, all experiencing deep emotional crashes, briefly recovering, only to collapse again into new lows. And while it might be tempting to... Read more
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Ranking crimes by nationality risks stoking a repeat of last summer's racist riots, argues Minnie Rahman, who urges ministers to focus on fairness and rehabilitation instead
I have recently been asked by the Panoptykon Foundation if it was possible to create an online age verification system that would not be a privacy nightmare. I highly recommend reading their piece, which dives into several issues around age verification.
I replied that yes, under certain assumptions, this is possible. And provided a rough sketch of such a system.
But before we dive into it, I have to be clear: I am not a fan of introducing online age verification systems. Privacy is just one of the many issues related to them. I dive into some of those later in this post.
However, the broader context is that age verification is becoming required by law in for a lot of services. And systems that are used for it are horrendously bad – like, say, Discord’s idea to verify age of people either by requring a scan of an ID, or enabling the camera in order to let them analyze our face.
There are other sleights of hand that cause economists problems. In their quest for statistical “identification” of a causal effect, economists often have to resort to techniques that answer either a narrower or a somewhat different version of the question that motivated the research. Results from randomized social experiments carried out in particular regions of, […]
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The anti-tax movement has dominated American politics for 50 years — but it may finally be fraying.
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For Schaus’ swallowtail butterflies, hurricanes mean clear skies and bright futures
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Dinosaur illustrator Mick Ellison on the evolution of using science and art to visualize the long-extinct animals of the deep past
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Peter Jukes, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of Byline Times, on the urgent need for media accuracy and why joining Impress, the independent press regulator, is the best way for us to uphold those values
A bomb threat at Barnard College targeted the “terrorists/communists that are protesting.” But you wouldn’t know that from the school’s statements.
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Tom Davies CHAPS is a critical element of the UK’s payments landscape, handling 92% of UK payment values despite comprising 0.5% of volumes. CHAPS is used for high-value and time-critical payments, including money market and foreign exchange transactions, supplier payments, and house purchases. We forecast CHAPS volumes to help CHAPS participants in making staffing decisions … Continue reading Balancing complexity and performance in forecasting models: insights from CHAPS volume predictions
Sexuality is hard to define and actors should not be unduly confined when it comes to what parts are open to them, writes Tim Walker
As a Labour MP, I know who I represent in Westminster. When I take my seat in Parliament, I do so in the interests of many communities that have been left behind by four decades of deindustrialisation. On the one side of my constituency is Clackmannanshire, whose mills, pits, and breweries were once the providers […]
Debunking the crash narrative: Why fears over UK borrowing levels misunderstand the fundamentals
Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal that a blueprint for Ukraine’s failed effort to capture the village of Krynky was assembled by Project Alchemy, a secret military-intelligence cell created by the British Ministry of Defence which sought “at all costs” to “keep Ukraine fighting.” The Krynky plot led to a bloodbath that remains one of the war’s biggest disasters. On the morning of October 30 2023, dozens of Ukrainian commandos on small boats glided across the Dnieper River to […]
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