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Some of my own fav @arstechnica stories from 2018:

1) Why cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off your autonomous car

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@arstechnica 2) Here’s how to use Kalanickspeak at your next jam sesh, bro

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@arstechnica 3) Monkey-selfie lawsuit finally ends: Court affirms adorable macaque can’t sue

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
@arstechnica 4) San Francisco to scooter startups: Your customers are terrible

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
5) Forget scanning license plates; cops will soon ID you via your roof rack

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
6) Plimsoll Gear, which sells T-shirts with icon, threatens trademark lawsuit

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
7) Woman: Neil Armstrong gave me moondust; I don’t want NASA to take it away

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
8) If an algorithm draws lines on a map, is that the same as land surveying?

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
9) How a CEO fiddled while beloved board game Glory to Rome crashed and burned

arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/09…
10) Cheese danish shipping, warrantless GPS trackers, and a border doctrine challenge

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Per a new report, Oakland has an equity score of 33.5. (Highly inequitable!)

Or, as the report puts it: “substantial room for improvement."

documentcloud.org/documents/4757…
"We found that for Prime construction and professional services contracts, 66.7% of African American contractors received contracts under $100,000, which was 3.42 times as often as White contractors (19.5%)."
"Citywide, one in ten youth were neither working nor in school (10.3%). African American youth were the most likely to be disconnected (14.8%), followed closely by Latino youth (13.2%)."
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I’m reading the nearly 500 page set of written answers that Facebook submitted yesterday to two Senate committees. There’s a lot here to unpack. Story TK.

Commerce report: documentcloud.org/documents/4503…

Judiciary report:
documentcloud.org/documents/4504…
So far, the questions from and answer to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are the most entertaining.
Are you a professor, privacy advocate or otherwise that has worked with Facebook in a roundtable or advisory role to build this forthcoming “Clear History” feature? Please get in touch (DMs open).

documentcloud.org/documents/4503…
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Hey friends! It’s #openingday! I’m taking the day off work to catch the @Athletics today!

Last year I did a story for @ebyesterday about baseball history in #Oakland! (m.soundcloud.com/user-736747354…)

Then I was invited to talk about it at @NerdNiteEB! Here’s the quick Twitter version.
The @Athletics and owner @DaveKaval have made a big push that the team is #RootedInOakland. After all, #Oakland is about to lose the @warriors and the @RAIDERS within a few years.
There’s more than just the @Athletics who play ball in #Oakland, however. If anyone is really in touch with local baseball roots, it’s the Oakland Colonels. They’re an amateur @BAVBB team playing under 1886 rules.
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2nd #Thread of responses from women in aerodynamics to the question, 'what do you currently see as being the major obstacle to women entering your field?'

Responses incl gender career stereotypes from an early age, lack of self-esteem and lack of female role models #WomeninSTEM
1. "I think that there is not enough awareness of female role-models in my field. There need to be more initiatives that allow young women to connect with female role-models so that they can be inspired and motivated to follow in their footsteps."
2. "Discouragement from teachers in high school to pursue a STEM career and an unwelcoming atmosphere in technical universities."
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#Thread: Rough translation on Rajini's recent statement on RMM activities.

I'd like to clarify the false rumors stating RMM works are happening without my permission. All activities regarding RMM are happening with my knowledge & permission.

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Already by last year May month, I said that "I won't allow people near me who have thoughts of getting posts & earning money when I enter politics. So, those people stay away right now."

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Didn't say it for word-sake. We are entering politics to bring out a new political culture for a good political change. If we've to do politics like others, why should we enter politics?

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#Thread on #NPAs. Stay with me.

RBI revealed this in an RTI: At the end of March 2018, a record high 7,990 borrowers of above Rs 5 crore had not repaid a whopping Rs 3.71 lakh crore to banks for 1-30 days after due date. That is a four-year high record of early defaulters! 1/n
2/n. These early defaults rose by a record 281.9 per cent over December 2017 when they stood at only Rs 972 billion . On a year-on-year basis, the rise is almost 228 per cent - the highest growth of early stage overdue repayments in 4 years.
3/n. More than 5,000 of these 7,990 were new and unique early defaulters of loans above Rs 5 crore. What does this number tell us? We have been told that all bad loans are of UPA era. This number tells us that Modi govt might be brewing its own banking crisis as well.
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THREAD: At 3pm, the Senate will vote on a resolution to block the FCC’s #NetNeutrality repeal and restore basic protections that prevent companies like Comcast and AT&T from censoring online content, slowing down websites and apps, and charging expensive new fees.
Our work for Internet freedom will continue long after today, but the outcome of this vote will affect the battlefield that we are fighting on for years to come.
This is the most important thing for everyone to understand: we’re facing off with some of the most politically powerful corporations in the world. We’re fighting an uphill battle. But in the big picture, we are winning on #NetNeutrality.
theverge.com/2017/12/11/167…
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#NetNeutrality Link Dump. One of whatever many. I'm just dumping my bookmarks here essentially, for some both sides of the aisle looks at stuff.
Starting with the basis of the debate. FTC vs FCC. Reaction based enforcement vs preemptive regulation. It's a good look at what both sides bring to the table roslynlayton.com/fcc-vs-ftc-whi…
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