Tulsa World: Oklahoma now has the highest incarceration rate in the nation, study finds Ed: Which means we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. Incomprehensible.
Chicago Tribune: Illinois lawmakers OK medical marijuana as painkiller substitute, bill now goes to governor
Gizmodo: Students pledge to refuse job interviews at Google in protest of Pentagon work
Fortune: Google makes vague pledge to limit work on AI in weapons, surveillance
Slate: The next frontier of police surveillance is drones: “A company that makes stun guns and body cameras is teaming up with a company that makes drones to sell drones to police departments, and that might not even be the most worrisome part. The line of drones from Axon and DJI is called the Axon Air, and the devices will be linked to Axon’s cloud-based database for law enforcement, Evidence.com, which is used to process body-camera data too. And it could open a vast new frontier for police surveillance.”
Common Dreams: Trump is making mass incarceration worse, despite clemency grant for 63-year old grandmother
TRF: World less peaceful than a decade ago: Index
The Federalist: Why intelligence agencies’ abuse of power should be a litmus test for the Right
SHELDON RICHMAN: How the US created Israel and a whole lot of trouble
TheFreeThoughtProject: Cop mistakes autism for drug use, beats innocent child on video. Taxpayers pick up tab on lawsuit. Ed: People become animals when they are either afraid or hold unaccountable power. Time to remove the latter from police.
Motherboard: We asked MIT researchers why they made a ‘psychotic AI’ that only sees death
