The Hill: Judge orders release of surveillance footage from Florida school shooting
The Guardian: Questions for the TSA after reports of laptop and phone searches on domestic flights
The Verge: Chinese police are expanding facial recognition sunglasses program
The Hill: Weakening encryption is no solution to election hacking
The American Conservative: Baltimore’s failed surveillance regime. “Everything from red-light cameras to a Cessna plane hasn’t made the city safer.”
Techdirt: Cop hits woman’s car at 94 MPH, killing her infant. Police arrest woman for negligent homicide.
BoingBoing: Undercover cop runs red light and tries to ticket driver who recorded it
Activist Post: Police warn reporters not to report news until cops give them permission…or face the consequences
Adweek: Why consumers are increasingly willing to trade privacy for convenience
TruthOut: Washington state’s deep political and economic alliance with the Pentagon
The Federalist: Hillary unloads on Middle America, says ‘backwards’ Trump voters hate black people and women
National Review: Wakanda has the Right’s foreign policy debate
From Nixon to Trump: Five times the FBI went up against the president
FEE: Capitalism has shown itself to be the most feminist system: “So what has this technological advance managed? We might point to medicine as an example. Historic rates of death in childbirth were of the order of 1,000 to 2,000 per 100,000 live births. Today’s are in the 10 to 20 range. I think a reduction of two orders of magnitude is pretty good. But that’s not all. Back then a woman would spend her entire adult life pregnant or lactating: such were the child death rates that perhaps as many as 10 pregnancies were needed to ensure the prospect of grandchildren. We manage the same probability of continued family existence with a fertility rate of only two these days—meaning the reduction in risk for women is 500-fold…
…But the overarching change has been the elimination of muscle power in the paid labor market. Back before capitalism started to automate tasks what was really being hired was human grunt. Something which women’s’ musculature generally made them unsuitable for, so that the division of labor was routinely men doing the paid market work, and women the unpaid domestic labor. Once the machines were doing the hefting and hauling, those innate differences become ever less important. It is this, more than anything else, which has allowed the entry of women into paid work. And that, of course, led to economic freedom and liberty.”
Gizmodo: Dark matter may not solve this galactic mystery after all
