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Monthly Archives: September 2020

How Algorithms Discern Our Mood From What We Write Online

29 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Dana Mackenzie Knowable Magazine Many people have declared 2020 the worst year ever. While such a description may seem hopelessly subjective, according to one measure, it’s true. That yardstick […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

How Big Oil Misled the Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

24 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Laura Sullivan NPR Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

It Can Happen Here

23 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Cass R. Sunstein The New York Review of Books Liberal democracy has enjoyed much better days. Vladimir Putin has entrenched authoritarian rule and is firmly in charge of a […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Privacy is Power

21 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Carissa Véliz Aeon Imagine having a master key for your life. A key or password that gives access to the front door to your home, your bedroom, your diary, […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

This Republican Party is Not Worth Saving

10 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Tom Nichols The Atlantic I was a Republican for most of my adult life. I came of political age in 1980, and although I grew up in a working-class […]

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LAW

A Robot Wrote This Entire Article. Are You Scared Yet, Human?

8 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By GPT-3 The Guardian I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

The Little Cards That Tell Police ‘Let’s Forget This Ever Happened’

4 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Katie Way Vice Mike, a white man in his 50s, was in a bad spot: He was stuck idling in traffic on New York City’s Riverside Drive, running late […]

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LAW

There’s No Containment Strategy for Climate Change

1 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Sharon E. Burke War on the Rocks The earliest humans had it rough. They survived a brutal ice age, dwindling to a population estimated at just 10,000, only to […]

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