The EFF explains the principles by which US law rejected forced arbitration, until plutocratists on the Supreme Court started trashing those principles in the 1980s.

It appears that any machine learning model can be backdoored during training. The backdoor makes it possible to fool the model during real use.

An idea for reducing gun violence in the US: to alter common situations to be less threatening and easier to handle without violence.

A school district in Pennsylvania has refused to allow the an extracurricular activities club sponsored by the Satanic Temple. However, it has allowed a similar club sponsored by a Christian church.

This is unconstitutional and is likely to lead to a lawsuit.

*Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid.*

Jonathan Haidt puts the blame on the changes that converted social media platforms into antisocial media, almost tailor-made to encourage factional hatred. The article ends with recommendations for reforming these platforms that he argues could correct the problem.

I wish he didn't use the term "consume" in regard to works of authorship. That word's implications are all wrong. To consume food means to break it down into small building blocks and extract what is useful, to build into other things. That is not what we do with text we read.

The word "absorb" is not very good, but it avoids part of what's bad about "consume".