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National politics, by definition, require a flattening of local variation and in our de facto two-party system, with this flattening often comes a false dichotomization of many complex issues.
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern
The creators and re-creators of race include as well a young woman who chuckled appreciatively when her four-year-old boy, upon being asked whether a young friend whose exploit he was recounting was black, answered: “No, he’s brown.” The young woman’s benevolent laughter was for the innocence of youth, too soon corrupted. But for all its benevolence, her laughter hastened the corruption whose inevitability she laments, for it taught the little boy that his empirical description was cute but inappropriate.
Racecraft
Barbara J. Fields, Karen Fields
Babel Street, best known for its open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools for analyzing social media and the like, sells location data as part of a secret add-on service called “Locate X.” Venntel, a subsidiary of marketing data company Gravy Analytics, has sold raw location data to several different US agencies, including ICE, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the FBI. And broker X-Mode paid app developers around 3 cents per user per month for access to location data, then sold it directly to defense contractors.
Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police
Bennett Cyphers
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