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Mexico refugees deportation

lundi 15 avril 2019 à 02:00

Under US pressure, Mexico has deported hundreds of thousands of refugees to Central America, sometimes without giving them the chance to apply for asylum.

The article reports on one who was murdered in 2017, a few months after being sent back to face death threats.

Tracking Kids

lundi 15 avril 2019 à 02:00

Chicago is Tracking Kids With GPS Monitors That Can Call and Record Them Without Consent.

If the suspect could refuse to accept a call, and if the device could not listen unless perse has accepted a call, that might make the device acceptable in this situation (as a bail condition).

Chicago renewable energy

lundi 15 avril 2019 à 02:00

Chicago adopted the goal of migrating completely to renewable energy by 2035.

This is surely a step forward, but how big a step? I wonder about these questions:

Socially instilled bias

lundi 15 avril 2019 à 02:00

"Any woman professional is familiar with a nagging doubt: Am I being taken seriously?" Socially instilled bias encourages people to doubt that women really know their fields.

There are indeed some people who pretend to more expertise than they really have. I would hazard a guess that the fraction of men that do this is bigger than the fraction of women, because bluffing is considered "manly". But that is independent of the social bias phenomenon that the article describes.

Baby boom generation

lundi 15 avril 2019 à 02:00

After the baby boom generation, the developed world has been pushing people out of the middle class and into low income.