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That's one highly leveraged squirrel video
Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
Equal Pay Day: What can transparency laws do to the gender pay gap?
“After years of little progress toward pay equity, more and more states and localities are passing pay transparency laws that eliminate the secrecy around salaries and could be a powerful tool for eliminating the gender pay gap.” [Link]
Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery
“An international security conference explored how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for drug discovery could be misused for de novo design of biochemical weapons. A thought experiment evolved into a computational proof.” Nightmare fuel. [Link]
Mark and Lily Osler: Governor’s order on transgender youth cruel, short-sighted
“Because Gov. Abbott has moved to threaten transgender kids by criminalizing the kind of support they need, it’s time for Lily and me to tell this part of our family story and to address the harm Gov. Abbott is doing.” [Link]
The case for induction cooking
“But for all the sexiness of cooking with gas (a concept bolstered by aggressive lobbying and advertising from the natural gas industry), it has been shown to be catastrophic for the environment, emitting potent greenhouse gases like methane into the atmosphere. Worse, a recent study demonstrated that 75 percent of
Grimes Reveals Y, Her New Baby Daughter With Elon Musk, in Cover Interview
Come for the secret baby, stay for an interview that makes Grimes seem like a pretty cool person. [Link]
Tatiana Perebyinis and two children identified as those seen dead in viral Lynsey Addario photo from Ukraine
“Photos flashing on his Twitter feed showed four people lying next to a World War II memorial just outside Kyiv after they were fired on by the Russian military. One of them was his wife, and two were his children.” Pure horror. [Link]
After George Floyd’s murder, police built a secretive surveillance machine that lives on
“We found evidence of a complex engine of surveillance tailor-made for keeping close tabs on protesters and sharing that information among local and federal agencies, regardless of whether the subjects were suspected of any wrongdoing.” [Link]
How COVID pressure led single moms to turn to coliving with other adults
“The move to cohabitation eased a significant amount of pressure for Villagomez-Morales at a time when parents, but especially single parents, were being squeezed on all sides — by child care, loss of work and extreme burnout. That, mixed with a housing market that has become increasingly inhospitable to low-wage people,
Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets
“We must take strong steps to reduce the risks that digital assets could pose to consumers, investors, and business protections; financial stability and financial system integrity; combating and preventing crime and illicit finance; national security; the ability to exercise human rights; financial inclusion and equity; and climate change and pollution.
Google is releasing an open source harassment filter for journalists
“Harassment Manager also lets users download a standalone report containing abusive messages; this creates a paper trail for their employer or, in the case of illegal content like direct threats, law enforcement. For now, however, there’s not a standalone application that users can download. Instead, developers can freely build
Associations between alcohol consumption and gray and white matter volumes in the UK Biobank
“Here, we show that the negative associations between alcohol intake and brain macrostructure and microstructure are already apparent in individuals consuming an average of only one to two daily alcohol units, and become stronger as alcohol intake increases.” Drinking any amount of alcohol shrinks your brain. [Link]