More links for your contemplation.
- It Has Never Been Safer to Be a Cop
- Interesting analysis of police on-duty deaths (spoiler: there isn’t a war on cops)
- On buying into the packaged misogyny that is Hillary Clinton hating
- British woman held after being seen reading book about Syria on plane.
- Muslim couple removed from flight for ‘sweating’, saying ‘Allah’.
- EFF is holding a Database Hunt because the California Public Records Act requires local agencies (except school districts) to publish inventories of “enterprise systems” on their websites.
- Being vegan isn’t as environmentally friendly as you think.
- Chinese state media says that the ‘straddling bus’ is nothing more than a big scam.
- Test flight held for small jet modeled after Miyazaki anime.
- Man driving his Tesla suffers a pulmonary embolism … and the Tesla drives him to the hospital.
- A bar owner in the UK has built a Faraday cage to stop customers using their phones.
The first two are to dispell some of the rhetoric flying around concerning policing in this country. Link 3 really goes into some depth about how our public discourse surrounding Hillary Clinton has been biased in horrible ways (even if you don’t like her policies). Links 4 and 5 are of interest not only because they’re examples of racism and paranoia at work, but because they demonstrate that so much of our freedom can be arbitrarily taken away because someone “was afraid” – the same excuse police use when they kill people. If any of you are fans of open data and government accountability, consider taking part in EFF’s Great Database Hunt (link 6). If you’re a vegan because you think you’re being environmentally conscious … you may want to think again (link 7). And the rest of the links are just for techie entertainment.
-D