Editor-in-Chief of @themarkup Julia Angwin: PredPol Racist for Predicting More Crimes in Black Neighborhoods

And so PredPol continues to make crime predictions that are incredibly unevenly distributed by race. Take these two neighborhoods in Plainfield, N.J. – where 11 crimes were predicted in the White neighborhood and 1,940 in the Black & Brown neighborhood. /13 pic.twitter.com/z5JW7LST0x — Julia Angwin (@JuliaAngwin) December 2, 2021 h/t dr0id

It took one man to bring down the Soviet Union. Is there one man today who can lead us out of all this?

A shipyard electrician by trade, Lech Walensa became the leader of the Solidarity movement, and led a successful pro-democratic effort which in 1989 ended the Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War. Can anyone think of one single person capable of defeating this totalitarian cabal today? I can’t. https://twitter.com/NeilFer50704831/status/1466771245597347842 … Read more

Psaki Just Gave LAMEST Excuse for Biden Ignoring Waukesha Christmas Parade Massacre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KO-8H5yNSU Martin Walsh from Trending Politics reports, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says Joe Biden has no plans to visit Waukesha, Wisconsin, after the deadly Christmas parade attack. During Monday’s press briefing, Psaki said Biden didn’t have plans “at this time” because sending the president to a community “requires a lot of assets.” Read … Read more

UPS Lays Off 100s of Workers in Biden’s Hometown Scranton

UPS is laying off hundreds of workers in (and around) resident Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania. 232 employees will work through the holiday season until their final day of work on February 25. “This layoff will be permanent, and ‘bumping rights’ (that is, the right to avoid termination by displacing another employee) do not exist,” UPS said … Read more

Another Bitcoin ETF Denied. Tether fraud and market manipulation cited as some of the justifications.

Another Bitcoin ETF Denied. Tether fraud and market manipulation cited as some of the justifications. Everyone wants a Bitcoin ETF.Nobody wants Tether transparency. "Manipulation" or "Manipulative" is mentioned 142 times in the denial notice. pic.twitter.com/PlpRtnQfnR — Bitfinex'ed 🔥🐧 Κασσάνδρα 🏺 (@Bitfinexed) December 3, 2021

DIGITAL MEDDLING: Google’s YouTube Meddles In French Election, Slaps Age Restriction On Presidential Candidate Zemmour’s Campaign Video.

According to YouTube’s policy, age restriction occurs when the Google-owned platform determines that content contains “Child safety” concerns, “Harmful or dangerous activities, including regulated substances and drugs,” “Nudity and sexually suggestive content,” “Violent or graphic content,” and/or “Vulgar language.” Zemmour’s announcement does not appear to explicitly violate any of these themes. YouTube, however, did not … Read more

TWITTER IMPLODING WITH SUBJECTIVE RULES…

Neo-Nazis and far-right activists are coaching followers on how to use a new Twitter rule to persuade the social media platform to remove photos of them posted by anti-extremism researchers and journalists who specialize in identifying episodes of real-world hate. Advocates said they worry the new policy will suppress efforts to document the activities of … Read more