This and that for your Thursday reading.
- Luke Savage points out that even biased right-wing polling is finding broad support for stronger social programs and limitations on corporate domination in Canada and the U.S. But Jake Johnson writes that the Biden administration is instead increasing military funding while putting an end to pandemic supports. And Elizabeth Payne discusses how continued underfunding of public health care in Canada is endangering workers and patients alike - even as Doug Allen notes that Doug Ford and his conservative cronies have no problem finding massive amounts of money for profit-driven care.
- Tracy Alloway and Joe Wiesenthal write about the "excuseflation" in which businesses goose their own profit margins while feigning helplessness. Nojoud Al Mallees reports on the experts calling for ongoing transparency as to how the corporations dominating the supply of necessities are setting their prices. And Erin Weir argues that the Bank of Canada should be focusing on its broadened mandate to support the maximum sustainable level of employment, rather than making a narrow push to respond to inflation driven by corporate greed.
- Elaine MacDonald writes about the environmental racism which has seen Canadian communities of colour disproportionately exposed to toxic chemicals. Tom Perkins reports on the horrific consequences of incinerating the soil contaminated by Norfolk Southern's East Palestine train derailment. And Helena Horton and Damian Carrington report on research into the immense amount of plastic waste in the oceans - and the futility of cleanup efforts if we don't sharply limit the damage first.
- Meanwhile, David Wallace-Wells points out that clean energy is immensely popular even in states dominated by Republican, fossil-fueled governments. Jonathan Gitlin discusses some of the lessons being learned in the early days of EV battery recycling. And Amy Janzwood, Sam Rowan and Josh Medicoff write that our federal government should be working on a well-planned transition, rather than coddling an industry which refuses to accept the growth of technology which will displace it.
- Finally, Umair Haque calls out the rise of annihilationism, as the right seeks to eliminate anybody outside its own in-group in the U.S. (and elsewhere).
It is a gradient to model ethical machine learning apps. Crime, I wouldn't care there is food theft for consumption by less than ten households, but syrup theft and bred fixing yes. It seems like not building stockpiles for Covid might be good but certainly the working through beef during bird flu is worse than a quick slaughter and processing. Long term is key: there are classified variables like having finance be loyal in a disaster maybe makes Clinton's student grants worth the finance pay increases. Transportation is linked with other amneties. Liberty Village was missing even primary schools but for some communities is more difficult. When I mopved into North York I was able to walk 3 hours through nice terrin to a Yonge food bank until a paycheck, but in Hamilton if the church is in Ancaster I'm cut off; some communities are made to be isolated from crime and a drug rehab building on St Mary's in a quiet French neighbourhood is difficult to evaluate. Meda is good as is mildly educational to know the effects on attack or lobbying articles on public opinion. Generally a higher IQ population is a preferred fat-tail, but I'd try to avoid ad analysis even for a 1st job, unless it is incidental to the primary model. Generally my nanohubs are with lawyers and office real estate is cheap so I can generally be pro social sciences machine learning. Inflation affects both really rich people, union workers, and fixed income transfer recipients, so to machine learning an astronaut core from those segmented populations is hard as you want a trend to middle upper classes but with time to learning relevant fields...
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