The Blogger Behind “AI Weirdness” Thinks Today’s AI Is Dumb and Dangerous

HuffPost – All public school students will have 33 hours of mandatory climate change education. “Children studying in Italy’s public schools will soon have climate change lessons on their weekly schedules.  Italy’s education minister, Lorenzo Fioramonti, announced on Tuesday that climate change and sustainability will be a mandatory part of education for students ages 6 to 19

Drones Used in Crime Fly Under the Law’s Radar

  The New York Times – Drones are increasingly being used by criminals across the country, and local law enforcement agencies are often powerless to stop them.”…Drones pose novel and difficult problems for law enforcement. They are widely available, lightly regulated and can be flown remotely by an operator far away from the crime scene. They have already been put to a host of nefarious uses, from smuggling contraband into prisons to swarming F.B.I. agents who were preparing for a raid. And local and state authorities are restricted by federal law from intercepting drones in flight, potentially even when a crime is in progress, though experts say that has yet to be tested in court. “The use of drones by criminal groups is appealing in part because drones are harder to catch,” said Arthur Holland Michel, co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College. “They create all kinds of headaches for law enforcement.”…”

Drones Used in Crime Fly Under the Law’s Radar

Hong Kong’s financial edge stems from “one country, two systems”: financial chief Xinhua

Mainland Chinese Sneak Into Hong Kong’s Protests—to Support the CauseWSJ

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The real China according to a CanadianFrank Li, Econintersect. Case for the defense.

Richest 1% of Americans Close to Surpassing Wealth of Middle ClassBloomberg

Have billionaires accumulated their wealth illegitimately? Economist. “But in America rent-seeking industries made one in five billionaires and explain a third of total billionaire wealth.” 

UBS defends billionaires as the best corporate leaders FT

Copper Workers Strike to Stop Concessionary Trend Labor Notes

Instacart Cuts Bonus Pay After Gig Workers Go on Strike The Daily Beast

Is ‘OK Boomer’ the ‘New N-Word,’ or Are Millennials Still Destroying Everything? FAIR. I really do have to read Hate, Inc.

The Blogger Behind “AI Weirdness” Thinks Today’s AI Is Dumb and Dangerous IEEE Spectrum (DL).

The ‘Three-Body Problem’ Has Perplexed Astronomers Since Newton Formulated It. A.I. Just Cracked It in Under a Second.LiveScience

An Oral History Of Blade Runner’s 2019 Los Angeles, Because The Future Has Arrived LAist

People believe organizations are more unethical than individuals, even when both agents engage in identical behaviors (Experiments 1–2).”

3. Was convict labor used to replace slave labor?  A very good job market paper from Malissa Rubio at Gothenburg.  don’t just hire from the same old schools, people!

Earwax swab markets in everything

Matchmakers in friends

Ten things Emma Thompson can’t live without (NYT)