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‘Predictive policing’ is a techno-tool of white supremacy

April 30, 2021 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Predictive policing is based on the idea that data (say, high levels of unemployment, racism, poverty, and poor education) can predict crime.

New satellite network to locate and monitor methane super-emitters

April 16, 2021 By Climate Nexus

Between 2016 and 2018, using airplane-based instruments, scientists found 600 "super-emitters" were to blame for more than one-third of the state's methane pollution.

Tesla’s Elon Musk joins lengthening list of labor law-breaking moguls

April 5, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Tesla Motors and more particularly, its owner, Elon Musk, have joined the ever-lengthening list of rich corporate moguls breaking labor law.

Social media, Trump, and the question of the First Amendment

January 14, 2021 By Al Neal

There is no constitutional right to tweet.

Google workers organize innovative new type of union with CWA

January 5, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Using innovations to attract their colleagues—everyone from software engineers to outside “contractors”—Google workers are organizing the high-tech behemoth.