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The claims that Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, employed some magical technique to fix the 2016 U.S. presidential election for Donald Trump have unraveled. The firm’s supposed secret sauce provided to the Trump campaign seemed to consist of standard psychometric targeting techniques—using personality surveys to categorize people—of limited utility.
Spirals of Delusion
foreignaffairs.com
This link between smart cities and military research is highly active today. For example, a recent DARPA research program called CASCADE (Complex Adaptive System Composition and Design Environment) explicitly compares “manned and unmanned aircraft,” which “share data and resources in real time” thanks to connections over wireless networks, to the “critical infrastructure systems” of smart cities—“water, power, transportation, communications, and cyber.”
The Smart City Is a Perpetually Unrealized Utopia
technologyreview.com
Suburban lawmakers in Congress vigorously protected the long-standing ban on a commuter tax, so 66 percent of the income generated in Washington was taxed in Maryland and Virginia, where the bulk of federal workers made their homes. In addition to churches, schools, and other institutions that do not pay taxes anywhere, D.C. officials also could not tax land owned by the federal government, embassies, and nonprofits. Fully 42 percent of District land thus did not contribute to city coffers.
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
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