Moral arguments against AI-based surveillance of students, in exams or not.

The article uses the term "ablism" in a way I think is incorrect. A tendency to move your head around while thinking is not a disability, merely a quirk. So if a system penalizes people for such head movements, I think the term "quirkism", meaning "prejudice against people because of quirks", describes that system better.

Whatever name we call it, it is bad for systems to show prejudice against quirks like that.

The article does not mention the essential basic injustice of proctoring systems: they are nonfree software that the student is required to run.

* The United States created a hellish world for millions (south of the border) and now demonizes those trying to escape it.* Covid-19 deaths in the medical field Over 3,600 US workers in the medical field have died from Covid-19. A substantial part of this was caused by the wrecker's bad policies, such as allowing the manufacture of protective gear to grow slowly, and encouraging the spread of the disease. (satire) Rats' amusement park (satire) *Rats Scramble To Hide Fully Functioning Amusement Park And Resort They Built As Workers Return To Office.*

A study finds that sheep tend to have lower pulse rates when shepherded by drones.

That might mean those sheep are better off, but that isn't certain. Perhaps sheep benefit from occasional higher heart rates. Humans do.

A man died in Oslo ten years ago, in his apartment, and his corpse was only just discovered.

This is a sign of how little social contact a person can have now. I wonder if the man was lonely and sad.

The UK government's report on racism in Britain cited old scholarship which didn't figure on structural racism, rather than newer scholarship which does.

The idea of using health disparities between groups to measure the net effects of racism surprised me. In principle, racism's injustices are not limited to worse health and shorter life span. Bigotry is wrong even if it does not shorten your life, and it can do you harm in ways that don't make you physically sick.

But the author suggests that the varied wrongs of racism tend to manifest themselves in the form of worse health, visible in medical statistics — and that this provides an objective way to measure the level of harm caused by racism within any given population. That is very interesting.