But Del Harvey isn’t even her real name, although that’s what everyone knows her as. In 2003, Harvey worked for a nonprofit called Perverted Justice that investigated online predators. That led to Harvey working in TV with the NBC series “To Catch a Predator.” 2/10 
As Arctic temperatures rise thawing permafrost releases methane, a gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide at warming the planet. Those clouds of methane raise global temperatures, which thaws more permafrost, which releases more methane. It’s a problem. 2/7 
Engineers began using the word analog in the 1940s to refer to computers that simulated real-world conditions. But let’s face it: These devices were difficult to program, expensive to maintain, and limited in accuracy. So what do we have to gain from them now? 2/5 
Alaa Allawi was always adept at computers, beginning at 14 by building his machine piece by piece, to building Iraqi dating sites and even getting in trouble for allegedly hacking his boss’s email. 🎨: Monet Alyssa 2/13 
In 2017, the city of Rotterdam deployed a machine learning algorithm to generate a risk score for around 30,000 people receiving welfare payments. The algorithm used attributes such as age, gender, and Dutch language ability to determine who should be investigated for fraud. 2/10
During the Matrix movies Stahelski served as Reeves’ stunt double on set. Like the Wachowskis, Stahelski's John Wick movies prove computers can't fix bad ideas—something AI is threatening to disprove. 2/7 
In Popayán, Colombia, a small city about 250 miles southwest of Bogotá, in the spring of 2021, scores of young demonstrators were crouching behind a line of homemade shields, trying to hold back the authorities. 2/
The average U.S. trucker salary in 1980 was $110,000. Today the median is a whopping $48,310. Much like cowboys, in the years prior, truck drivers spent a great deal of time going from one place to another, answering to no one—until technology came along. 2/7 
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