Links June 2021
June 29, 2021
"A federal safety agency told automakers on Tuesday to begin reporting and tracking crashes involving cars and trucks that use advanced driver-assistance technology such as Tesla’s Autopilot and General Motors’ Super Cruise, a sign that regulators are taking the safety implications of such systems more seriously." nytimes.com
June 15, 2021
"Though users’ intent was crystal clear, the companies chose to disingenuously interpret the choice to apply only to selling data, not giving it away, and so they kept on distributing it free to feed their advertising businesses." nytimes.com
"Only the deepest-pocketed outfits like Waymo, which is a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet; auto giants; and a handful of start-ups are managing to stay in the game." nytimes.com
"Millions of Americans are struggling through life with few people they can trust for personal and professional help, a disconnect that raises a key barrier to recovery from the social, emotional and economic fallout of the pandemic, according to a new a poll from The Impact Genome Project and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research." apnews.com
"Investors often buy lists of homeowners from companies that scrape public data to find homes that fit their criteria. Mr. Schindehette said he found the elder Mr. Vukotich on three lists, including one of people who don’t live in the homes they own." wsj.com
"Under the law, such speculators who secure real estate for themselves with the aim of selling it for a quick profit would be required to obtain a license and adhere to ethics constraints similar to those binding state-accredited real estate agents." inquirer.com
June 12, 2021
Why a Tree Is the Friend We Need Right Now | A steady, calming and awe-inspiring tree is the perfect antidote to residual pandemic anxiety. Here’s how to make a tree friendship: wsj.com
"In five emails sent during the last week of December and early January, Mr. Meadows asked Jeffrey A. Rosen, then the acting attorney general, to examine debunked claims of election fraud in New Mexico and an array of baseless conspiracies that held that Mr. Trump had been the actual victor." nytimes.com
June 7, 2021
"In a statement published this week by the left-leaning think tank New America, more than 100 leading scholars of government warned that election laws in some states 'no longer meet the minimum conditions for free and fair elections.' The statement warned that 'our entire democracy is now at risk.'" nytimes.com
"But, as the January 8th conference call shows, opponents of the legislation have resorted to “under-the-dome-type strategies” because the broad public is against them when it comes to billionaires buying elections." newyorker.com 🐤
Yes, Take This Seriously: It’s Time to Kill the Senate | The upper body of Congress has become a colossal wreck where democracy goes to die. newrepublic.com
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