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Apryl Williams sheds light on online dating for an article in The Boston Globe.

“In previous times, you were able to say, go out to dinner, and you wouldn’t have to worry about seeing your boss and maybe your school teacher all in the same space,” said Williams. “Whereas Facebook and Twitter and all of our other social media create a space where our social lives are converging in one space. And I think because people are particularly sensitive about dating, that’s one area of context collapse that they don’t want to merge.”

BKC affiliate Joan Donovan and Assembly alum Elizabeth Dubois share their thoughts on Twitter’s forthcoming political ad policy and the potential impact it may have on other platforms.

Martha Minow writes about the power – and nuance – of forgiveness for The Boston Globe.

“To ask how laws may forgive is not to deny the fact of wrongdoing,” Minow writes. “Rather, it is to widen the lens to understand larger patterns at work and visualize a more constructive path forward for all. When it comes to the justice system, saying — and hearing — “I forgive you” may prove to be the most just thing we can do.”

In her new book "When Should Law Forgive?", Martha Minow explores the complicated intersection of the law, justice, and forgiveness. Minow discussed the book at a recent event, where she described the goal of her book as exploring how, in especially polarized times, forgiveness can be an integral aspect of achieving justice.

“We are living in an age of resentment,” she declared. “We are living in an age of justified resentments. But if we all continue down our roads with our justified resentments, then we will have our vengeance and we will have the opposite of justice.”

Mutale Nkonde outlines some training data issues underlying AI bias and suggests that CSR departments would do well to respond.

"There’s an opportunity here for businesses that want a first-mover advantage in differentiating themselves in the marketplace by using fair and accurate AI,” Nkonde writes.

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Estrutura do Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara, no Maranhão, onde está a plataforma de lançamento de foguetes.

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Andrew Yang says, “Yes, Robots Are Stealing Your Job” in an op-ed at the New York Times. Paul Krugman thinks they’re not and advises, “Democrats, Avoid the Robot Rabbit Hole.” This is, of course, a classic case of asking the wrong question. The real question is: will robots burn down your house and kill your […]

They need to have it to fit in, but social media is probably doing teens more harm than good. from www.shutterstock.com

If you have kids, chances are you’ve worried about their presence on social media.

A review of Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World, Michael Lerner (University of California Press, 2019).
In 1923 the feminist Bolshevik, Alexandra Kollontai, wrote a letter to Russian socialist youth. This was a time when the . . .

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A mistake too many make is thinking Republicans - elected, voters, all of them - actually care about the things they claim to care about. Arguably a big chunk of Democrats aren't much different, but I'm not interested in having that argument. Regardless the difference is that Republican concerns are treated in our discourse as genuine and serious while concerns of The Left, defined so broadly, are not.

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Corbynism from Below is a wide-ranging collection of thoughtful essays on this historic opportunity for the left to transform society, finds Kevin Ovenden

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Christian beliefs: from naïve acceptance through doubts and confusion to critical acceptance.

This is the first instance of a transcontinental application to the ICJ based on violations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

The Gambia, a majority-Muslim West African nation, and the smallest country on mainland Africa, took an enormous step this Monday on behalf of their fellow Muslims, the Rohingya people, when it filed a lawsuit against Myanmar for the crime of genocide — the destruction in whole or in part, of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group — at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

In the light of the Morrison government’s attempts to extend secondary boycott laws to cover boycotts by consumers, investors and advertisers, I thought I would repost this piece from 2014. I’m inclined to agree with Chris Berg (link broken unfortunately) that all restrictions on secondary boycotts should be scrapped. In particular, that applies to bans imposed on unions under Sections 45D and 45E of the Trade Practices Act.

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Nasa tracking devastating 230-kilotonne asteroid that could hit Earth in May 2022

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Oh Rudy

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Just when we think the bushfires must have burnt themselves out they just keep on going. Every morning we are waking up to thick smoke. This was the view out our window yesterday morning and it is the same today. Not a cloud in sight, just thick dirty wood smoke. The asthma and COPD sufferers are probably having a shit time. From when I wake to when I got to bed my eyes and my skin feel gritty. It's pretty horrible.

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Does productivity explain income? I asked this question in a previous post. My answer was a bombastic no. In this post, I’ll dig deeper into the reasons that productivity doesn’t explain income. I’ll focus on wages.

During one of the more infamous moments in Plato’s Republic, Socrates suggests that the ideal city needs a founding myth—what he calls “a noble lie”—to ensure its success. The myth has two parts. The first relates that every person in the city comes from the same mother, and thus encourages belief in a common origin and kinship of all the citizens who live in the city.

Launched with a hashtag, a new movement seeks to raise awareness of how fundamentalist Christianity is polarizing the national discourse.

Today's Water Cooler: Trade and farm purchases, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, introducing Patrick, Sanders, Warren, Capitol Hill therapy dogs, impeachment , jobless claims, U.S. oil, producer prices, Walmart, innovation, Google, Boeing, McClatchy, feral hogs, NGOs and labor, My Secret Garden

My ‘To read’ file and the additional information I gather from week to week seems to grow enormously and I have trouble keeping up with all of it. I continually challenge my bias but I can find little if anything to say about a government whose incompetency seems to grow in unison with their length…

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People love gender-reveal parties. People keep dying at gender-reveal parties. It’s high time someone put two and two together to give the people what they want: gender-reveal funerals.

Ukraine Corruption and Transfer Pricing As I listened to the testimony of Bill Taylor and George Kent, I was also reading up on some South African transfer pricing case involving iron ore: Kumba Iron Ore will pay less than half of the tax bill it received from the SA Revenue Service (Sars) last year following audits […]

It looks like the Intelligence Inspector general is about to get Sessioned

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After weeks of protest, Bolivia’s first indigenous president has been ousted in a coup, bringing a dramatic end to his thirteen eventful years in power.

A textbook case on medical ethics.

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“The first art school I went to was a very, very unique and interesting one. It was run by a man called Roy Ascott, who had previously started another art school in London which Pete Townshend studied at, and quite a number of other interesting people.

Given the febrile nature of the debate over Brexit in the run-up to one of the most contentious general elections in recent memory, it is hardly surprising that NIESR’s well received and widely-accepted analysis of the impact on the UK economy and people’s livelihoods of leaving the European Union has been criticised in some quarters.

Bill Barr is not as smart as he thinks he is

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Dog born with tail growing out of its head

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This is a story about a conspiracy theory that was born in the 1990s, hibernated in obscurity for two decades, and in 2019 appears to have duped jurors into awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature to Peter Handke, who has denied the Serb genocide of Muslims in Bosnia.

...you should get him this.

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Ahmed al-Khalid The former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, and former United Nations Weapons Inspector, Scott Ritter puts the question in his article: how will historians come to appreciate what Russia accomplished in Syria? The analyst has criticized the US’ policy and represented Russia as a major positive power in Syrian conflict. Is it really …

Most workers learn additional skills throughout their work-life. In that sense, it's obvious that job training in some contexts works for adults. But for many of us, the additional learning happens in the context of remaining in the same job, or at least on the same broad career path. The harder question is whether it's possible to do the kind of job training with adults, perhaps adults who have just experienced a negative shock to their previous job, that jump-starts them on a career path.

The Neo-Assyrian empire illustrates how fortunes rise and fall with climate.

A stash of cocaine worth $22,000 hidden in an Italian forest by a gang of suspected drug dealers was reportedly destroyed by wild boars.

(Thanks to Rick Day)

In the past two years, the surge in undocumented immigrants from Central America’s Northern Triangle has been covered extensively by most news outlets. The stories of these migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras involve compelling and often perilous human experiences and intense reactions to the issues involved.

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