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'A white-collar sweatshop': Google Assistant contractors allege wage theft
Interpreting a spoken request isn’t magic, rather it has taken a team of underpaid, subcontracted linguists to make the technology possible
Where Did Brett Kavanaugh's Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Credit Card Debt Go?
Kavanaugh spent between $60,000 and $200,000 on baseball tickets, and it was all paid off just last year.
In an Age of Policy Boldness, Think Tanks Have Become Timid
The disconnect between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and the think tank world could pose a problem if one of them gets elected president.
A big new study finds bee-killing pesticides aren't even worth it for soybean farmers
The science suggests the chemicals cripple a whole host of pollinators—and offer very little economic benefit.
Michigan pharmacies to offer opioid-reversal drug for free on Saturday
Narcan reverses opioid overdoses. Experts believe the increased availability of Narcan is responsible for a decline in the number of overdose deaths.
KEI Comments to NIH re: Intima Bioscience License
1621 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20009 www.keionline.org September 13, 2019 Andrew Burke, Ph.D. Senior Technology Transfer Manager NCI Technology Transfer Center 9609 Medical Center Drive, RM 1E530, MSC 9702 Bethesda, MD...
Message to the Creative Commons Community Regarding Joi Ito
Like many members of the Creative Commons community, I learned about MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito’s fundraising from Jeffrey Epstein when Ito posted his public apology
John Wilbanks
Missed this @creativecommons statement on Epstein and Joi. No $$ or interactions; this includes Science Commons as well since we were always part of CC structurally.
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Facing the Great Reckoning Head-On
Last night, I was honored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Alongside Oakland Privacy and William Gibson, I received a 2019…
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John Wilbanks
This by @zephoria is the most important thing you'll read today about the Great Tech Reckoning, as danah has named it. Pull quotes + me starting to deal with my own complicity in the thread.
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Findings
Advisers to the Scottish government recommended canceling protections enjoyed by wandering sand dunes in Aberdeenshire that have been destroyed by Donald Trump. In England and Wales, where burial space is expected to run out in five years’ time, a...
Digital Medicine Standards 101
Digital health data is growing 40% year on year. In addition to traditional lab values and diagnostic tests, clinicians, researchers and…
Disrupting Democracy: When Big Tech Takes Over a City
Google’s smart city of the future is in trouble. For the past two years, Sidewalk Labs, Google’s sister company under Alphabet, has been in talks with local officials in Toronto to redev
The MIT Media Lab controversy and getting back to ‘radical courage’, with Media Lab student Arwa Mboya
People win prestigious prizes in tech all the time, but there is something different about The Bold Prize. Unless you’ve been living under a literal or proverbial rock, you’ve probably heard something about the late Jeffrey Epstein, a notorious...
Toward A Distributed, Benchmarking Ecosystem Using Electronic Healthcare Data – Sage Bionetworks
John Wilbanks
New post from @Sagebio Justin Guinney - towards a distributed benchmarking ecosystem using EHR data (plus, register for the @DR_E_A_M challenge described!)
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Sidewalk Labs' controversial data collection project is now a company
Sidewalk Lab's Replica has already done work in Kansas City, Chicago, Sacramento and Portland.