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A school teacher talks about home-schooling her own children.

Researchers have released a free(libre) recipe for a possible Covid-19 vaccine that people can make at home. However, there is no study to verify its safety or efficacy.

The article includes a statement that is confusingly vague because it uses the term "intellectual property". I would expect it is trying to talk about patents, but doing a bad job of saying so.

The UK has stopped using an AI system to judge immigration applications after determining that it suffers from PIPO.

PIPO, a term I just coined, stands for "prejudice in, prejudice out." This failure is common in AI systems trained on the actual behavior of people in a system where there is systematic prejudice.

In an ironic way, though, converting the prejudiced habits of officials into a program made the existence of the prejudice easy to demonstrate. Will that pave the way to eliminating the prejudice, or will the ministry only drive it underground?

New evidence suggests that asymptomatic children contribute significantly to transmission of Covid-19.

Covid-19 spreads easily among US military personnel because many of them are right-wing anti-maskers. When the military sends personnel from base to base, some of them bring Covid-19 and spread it to the people that live near the base, and the rest of that region or country.