Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition Systems Threatens Civil Liberties.

When a practice is an injustice to anyone and everyone, I don't think we need to resort to arguing that the injustice falls heavily on certain racial groups. I think it is better to argue in the name of all people rather than in the name of a subset.

And I can't stomach the term "people of color".

Performance metrics for evaluating researchers are distorting research because researchers are under pressure to game the system.

It often happens that a metric is useful for evaluation but optimizing it ruins things.

George Soros warns that the monopoly power of Google and Facebook is a danger to society and calls for them to be regulated.

Soros is right, but he misses part of the danger. He recognizes how China uses commercial databases for oppression, but doesn't recognize how the US is increasingly doing the same thing.

Having the US regulate these databases will not prevent that danger. What we need is to protect anonymity by preventing these databases from being collected at all.

A Chinese state-owned chemical company has joined a US lobbying organization, presumably to influence US elections.

Americans who killed themselves to escape from unending pain after they were denied opioid painkillers by rules set up to "protect" them from addiction.