Month: November 2022

Last October, Author Julie Powell Celebrated The Deaths Of Anti-Vaxxers: Now She’s Dead (Guess What The Cause Is)

“I would argue that COVID does kill some of the right people. The anti-vaxxers/maskers are dying in legions. But yes. It’s a real shame about Kavanaugh.”

A 49-year-old author, who seemed to take delight in those who died from COVID while not having taken the jab, reportedly died this past October, with reports saying the author passed away due to cardiac arrest.

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Algorithms Quietly Run the City of DC—and Maybe Your Hometown

A new report finds that municipal agencies in Washington deploy dozens of automated decision systems, often without residents’ knowledge.

WASHINGTON, DC, IS the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use automation to screen housing applicants, predict criminal recidivism, identify food assistance fraud, determine if a high schooler is likely to drop out, inform sentencing decisions for young people, and many other things.

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