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Mathematicians as storytellers

“‘Memory is the residue of thought’ according to cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham. <…> An often overlooked fact in education is that the converse does not hold: thought is not always the residue of memory

Spring!

So what happens when these tools for maximizing clicks and engagement creep into the political sphere?

Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance

(via Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems | The Guardian)

The greater the failure, the more extreme the ideology becomes. Governments use neoliberal crises as both excuse and opportunity to cut taxes, privatise remaining public services, rip holes in the social safety net, deregulate corporations and re-regulate citizens. The self-hating state now sinks its teeth into every organ of the public sector.

So go fuck a tailpipe if you love cars so much.

Google's Cute Cars And The Ugly End Of Driving

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One Map Shows How Many People Police Have Killed in Each State So Far This Year

In 47 out of 50 states, American police officers have killed at least one person so far this year. In some, the number of officer-involved homicides dwarfs numbers from entire countries.The map below, based on statistics the research collaborative Mapping Police Violence provided to Mic, shows all 605 deaths from police violence in the United States from Jan. 1 through July 10. As is evident, there’s a clear correlation between population size and the number of slayings, but certain states still stand out with particularly large numbers.

It’s also pretty racist: The weight of all these killings falls disproportionately on the poor and especially racial and ethnic minorities, who experience significantly higher arrest rates.

A 2014 USA Today analysis using FBI statistics found white officers kill black suspects at the rate of about two a week — although the actual total is likely much higher. The New York Police Department, for example, shoots black and Hispanic suspects at many times the rate they do white ones.

Socioeconomic disparities no doubt account for part of this, but plain old institutional racism likely plays a huge role in these deaths.

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One can not like such an article!... hence a reblog!

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wow.