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October 11, 2019

Why Deep-Learning AIs Are so Easy to Fool

Douglas Heaven Nature

Brilliant at what they do, taken into unfamiliar terrain Deep Neural Networks are fundamentally brittle. AI researchers say they are making progress in fixing the flaws, but acknowledge that they’re still groping for new techniques.

October 11, 2019

Understanding the Two Types of Whistleblowers

Jefferson Morley Independent Media Institute

Maybe the specter of a lawless president and the example of an insider legal whistleblower who called him out will prod Congress to start creating more protections for those who want to speak truth to power. We need more of those protections.

Giuliani Associates Arrested as Support for Impeachment Rises

October 11, 2019

Seth takes a closer look at two of Rudy Giuliani’s associates getting arrested as support for impeachment rises in the polls

Elizabeth Warren's Simple Response to a Marriage Equality Question

October 11, 2019

Elizabeth Warren is asked, at the CNN Equality Town Hall, how she would respond to someone who says their faith teaches that a marriage is between one man and one woman

Why Do Prime Numbers Make These Spirals?

October 11, 2019

A story of the value in mathematical play

Joker | Movie

October 11, 2019

A complex movie for tumultuous times. Check out these reviews for two takes on Joker as a reinvention of Superhero Cinema and as an expose of a broken class system that creates its own monsters.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Speaks at Global Climate Summit

October 11, 2019

AOC, on her first international trip as a lawmaker, delivers the keynote address at the C40 summit on climate crisis, a global gathering of mayors, lawmakers and city administrators

October 11, 2019

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Speaks at Global Climate Summit. Joker | Movie. Why Do Prime Numbers Make These Spirals? Elizabeth Warren's Simple Response to a Marriage Equality Question. Giuliani Associates Arrested as Support for Impeachment Rises.

October 10, 2019

Top 10 Books About Black Radicalism

Kehinde Andrews The Guardian

In honoring Black History Month, the author lists 10 superlative books by radical voices instrumental in cohering modern black thought.

October 10, 2019

Religious Freedom: Freedom to Discriminate?

Ken Estey Working-Class Perspectives

The Trump Administration is arguing at the Supreme Court that employers should be able to fire LGBTQ workers. If religion can be used to deny workers rights as individuals, it can be used to upend the struggle for collective rights and dignity.