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Behind the Doodle: Celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach

April 5, 2019

Google celebrated the renowned German composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach with their first ever AI-powered Doodle. The Doodle is an interactive experience that encourages players to compose a two measure melody of their choice. The Doodle then uses machine learning to harmonize the custom melody into Bach’s signature music style. More on the promise and risks of AI.

Bernie Sanders - A Progressive Agenda for the 2020 Presidential Race

April 5, 2019

Senator Bernie Sanders talks about his emergence as the 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner, fighting for single-payer health care and tackling income inequality.

April 5, 2019

Artificial Intelligence Can Now Emulate Human Behaviors – Soon It Will Be Dangerously Good

Ana Santos Rutschman The Conversation

Giving researchers and companies freedom to explore, in order to seek positive achievements from AI systems, means opening up the risk of developing more advanced ways to create deception and other social problems

April 5, 2019

Friday Nite Videos | April 5, 2019

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Trevor Noah Interviews Bernie Sanders. Behind the Doodle: Celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach. You Won’t Believe What Obama Says in This Video! Faces Places | Movie. Attorney General Barr Is Caught in a Double Mueller Bind.

April 4, 2019

On Opening Week: Labor Solidarity and the Plight of Minor League Baseball Players

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez Workday Magazine

Whether you are tending bar or playing minor league baseball, all working people deserve to earn at least the minimum wage. Exempting baseball from FLSA rules could create a dangerous precedent.

April 4, 2019

Keywords That Reinforce Class Control

Oliver Eagleton Counterfire

Carrying on from Raymond Williams' Keywords, the classic study of capital's appropriation of words for its own ends, the book under review looks at contemporary linguistic usage that serves and reinforces dominant class interests.

April 4, 2019

Tidbits - Apr. 4, 2019 - Reader Comments: Martin Luther King Remembered; Military Budget; Reparations; Amazon, Foxconn; Puerto Rico; Mozambique; Brexit; Venezuela; Resources; Announcements; and more...

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Reader Comments: Martin Luther King Remembered; Military Budget; Reparations; Progressive Candidates; Taking Care of Amazon and Foxconn; Puerto Rico; Mozambique; Brexit; Venezuela; Resources; Lots of Announcements; and more...

April 4, 2019

As EU Elections Approach, Europe Confronts a Cliff

Conn Hallinan Foreign Policy in Focus

With the hard right running left and the center-left abdicating, Euroskeptics could accelerate a continent-wide crisis. Global migration is on the rise as climate change drowns coastlines, river deltas and drought drives people out of arid climates.

April 4, 2019

Climate Change. War. Poverty. How the U.S.-China Relationship Will Shape Humanity’s Path.

Calvin Cheung-Miaw and Max Elbaum In These Times

A call for diplomacy and deescalation, not economic and military confrontation. We should prioritize the fight for a 180-degree turnaround in the U.S. stance toward China - that diplomacy and negotiation replace trade wars and military encirclement.

April 4, 2019

15 Years After the Iraq Invasion, What Are the Costs?

Stephanie Savell OtherWords.org

We spend $32 million per hour on wars started during the Bush administration. The economic costs of the war on terror has cost Americans a staggering $5.6 trillion since 2001, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan.