1. Adversarial fashion (AI zeitgeist)

The patterns on the goods in this shop are designed to trigger Automated License Plate Readers, injecting junk data in to the systems used by the State and its contractors to monitor and track civilians and their locations.

2. A Party Room and a Prison Cell. Inside the Friends writers’ room by Saul Austerlitz (tv)

3. John “Whitest of White Men” Oliver Calls for Backup to Talk About Bias in Medicine (healthcare)

4. The Case Against Paper Straws (recycling)

5. Why Are There So Many Weird Tech Patents? (patents)

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