Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wisconsin-jobs-loophole-trumpIn 2017, then-Governor Scott Walker and President Trump announced a historic deal with Foxconn to bring manufacturing jobs to Wisconsin. But none of the jobs, buildings, or promises have been fulfilled—and look like they never will. The Verge’s Josh Dzieza investigates two years of what happened behind the scenes at Foxconn in Wisconsin.
Social Cooling - Big Data's unintended side effect
socialcooling.com/Social Cooling: is big data making us more well behaved.. but less human?
The Anti-Capitalist Software License
anticapitalist.software/A software license towards a world beyond capitalism.
Noam Chomsky wants you to vote for Joe Biden and then haunt his dreams - The.Ink
the.ink/p/noam-chomsky-wants-you-to-vote-forThe lion of the left on the pandemic, the election, the word Bernie Sanders needs to stop using, the Harper's letter, the 1619 Project, patriotism, and the greatest social movement in U.S. history
A More Specific Letter on Justice and Open Debate - The Objective
theobjective.substack.com/p/14203152-3a83-4068-b6b2-a5007b0e2f5bOn Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open call for civility in Harper’s Magazine. They write, in the pages of a prominent magazine that’s infamous for being
Our Ability to Process Information Is Reaching a Critical Limit
onezero.medium.com/our-ability-to-process-information-is-reaching-a-critical-limit-3c761fee3259BuzzFeed once called 2016 “Actually The Worst Year.” It didn’t hold the record for long. In six short months, 2020 has already delivered Australian wildfires, election controversies, the coronavirus…
Violence in Blue | Patrick Ball | Granta Magazine
granta.com/violence-in-blue/‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’ Patrick Ball measures the undocumented police killings in the United States.
To improve the US coronavirus response, Donald Trump should resign - The Verge
theverge.com/2020/3/12/21176170/coronavirus-response-donald-trump-resign-crisis-pandemic-responseWe are facing a pandemic about which US President Donald Trump appears incapable of telling the truth — assuming he even knows it. Without quick action, a lot of people are going to get sick. Some of them will die. The president’s incoherence has reached a level that is a hazard to public health. The best thing Trump can do for the country, to speed its response to coronavirus, is resign and let someone capable take over.
Finland is winning the war on fake news. Other nations want the blueprint
edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?
Josh Geltzer on what happens if Trump won’t concede in 2020.
slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/joshua-geltzer-election-peaceful-transition-of-power-donald-trump.htmlThere are important checks that need to be activated now.