Avatarvictor mutaiAvatarAvatar'Absolute Clusterf-k': Inside the Denial and Dysfunction of Trump's Coronavirus Task ForceRolling Stone - Andy KrollThis story appears in the May 2020 issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands May 5th. On February 24th, Dr. Duane Caneva, the chief medical officer at the …
Avatarvictor mutaiAvatarAvatar19 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets From Your Favorite TV ShowsBuzzFeed - Lauren GarafanoThis is why I have trust issues!!! We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us all the tricks and lies their favorite TV shows pulled on them. Here's what they said: Note: Not all responses are from Community users. 1. First, on Glee, Rachel and Kurt attended college at NYADA, aka a school that doesn't …
Avatarvictor mutaiFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoJim Crow Steals Election in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional Districttruthout.org - Greg PalastOur experts estimate the number of illegally removed Black voters is well above the meager 4,000 vote margin separating McCready and Bishop. Strach …
Avatarvictor mutaiAvatarAvatarCapitalism and the death of conservatismverified_publisherThe Guardian - Guardian staff reporterLetters: Charles Patmore and David Murray debate the damage inflicted by Margaret Thatcher, while Nick Pattinson says she would now be dismissed for being too leftwing
Avatarvictor mutaiAvatarAvatarThe anti-competitive forces that foil speedy, affordable broadbandverified_publisherFast Company - Harry McCrackenMuncipal broadband and multiple ISP options are great ideas–unless you’re a giant telecommunications company with an entrenched monopoly. From Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Santa Monica, California, hundreds of communities in the U.S. have been able to provide consumers and businesses with affordable …
Avatarvictor mutaiAvatarAvatarAI Is On Track To Send Millions Of Bank Workers To Eternal Call WaitingForbes - Jon MarkmanBusiness leaders are finally fessing up to the fact that artificially intelligent enterprise software is going kill thousands of service jobs. Michael Corbat, CEO at Citigroup, told the Financial Times in February that AI, coupled with digitalization, could help eliminate tens of thousands of jobs at …
Avatarvictor mutaiAvatarAvatarGlencore Makes a $36 Billion Bet on Dirty Coalverified_publisherBloomberg - By Chris BryantCEO thinks shareholders are missing the picture on Glencore’s strong cash flow. If you’re happy with investing in coal, he may have a point. Higher …
Avatarvictor mutaiAvatarAvatarMuhammad Yunus: Separate financial systems—not charity—will end povertyverified_publisherQuartz - Eshe NelsonFor more than 40 years, Muhammad Yunus has been building a financial system for people who lack sufficient access to the one that already exists. In 2006, the now 78-year old won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as “banker to the poor.” In the 1970s, Yunus began work on what would shortly become …
Avatarvictor mutaiAvatarAvatarThis beautiful map shows everything that powers an Amazon Echo, from data mines to lakes of lithiumverified_publisherThe Verge - James VincentWelcome to the ‘Anatomy of an AI System’ That the modern world is a complex place will not have escaped your notice. We are all dimly, unsettlingly aware that our lives are enmeshed in systems we can’t fully comprehend. The last meal you ate probably contained produce grown in another country that …
Avatarvictor mutaiAvatarAvatarOpinion | Black With (Some) White Privilege (Published 2018)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Anna HolmesWhen I was in my early 30s, I started making a list of every child I could think of who had a black parent and a white parent and was born between 1960 and the mid- to late 1980s. It was a collection of people like me, who grew up and came of age after the Supreme Court decision in 1967 that …
Avatarvictor mutaiAvatarAvatarBritain’s tired old economy isn’t strong enough for Brexitverified_publisherThe Guardian - Phillip InmanLeave campaigners’ visions of national renewal depend on a level of commercial vibrancy that the UK can no longer muster
Avatarvictor mutaiFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoTo keep their bond-ratings, hedge-funds have to publicly demonstrate that they are the most ruthless of landlordsboingboing.net - Cory DoctorowAfter the subprime crisis, vulture funds swept into the hardest-hit areas and bought thousands of foreclosed-upon homes at firesale prices and …