A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder
Via: Hallux • Other • 4 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
Churches confess and repent for sins against Native and Indigenous people
Via: Hallux • History & Sociology • 16 Comments • 4 Likes • 3 years ago
AI was asked for images of Black African docs treating white kids. How'd it go? : Goats and Soda : NPR
Via: Hallux • Other • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
“Researchers were curious if artificial intelligence could fulfill the order. Or would built-in biases short-circuit the request? Let's see what an...”
The lifesaving, Nobel Prize-winning discovery that almost didn’t happen
Via: Hallux • Health, Science & Technology • 4 Comments • 4 Likes • 3 years ago
Attacks by students made medieval Oxford a murder hotspot, researchers find
Via: Hallux • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • 1 Like • 3 years ago
“It's estimated that the homicide rate in late medieval Oxford was about 60-75 per 100,000 people - 50 times higher than current rates in...”
Who is Wab Kinew, Canada’s first First Nations premier of Manitoba?
Via: Hallux • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 1 Like • 3 years ago
“In a historical first, a member of Canada’s First Nations community has become the leader of Manitoba province.”
Alabama finally has a new congressional map after a lengthy legal fight
Via: Hallux • News & Politics • 17 Comments • 3 Likes • 3 years ago
Men took over a job fair intended for women and nonbinary tech workers
Via: Hallux • Other • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
“As one poster put it, "the Kens had taken over Barbieland."”
Manitoba PCs shocked their ‘imply everyone in the province is a secret bigot’ strategy didn’t work out
Via: Hallux • Satire • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 3 years ago
The Republican Civil War Over The Ukraine War
Via: Hallux • Op/Ed • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
“Putin represents the kind of leadership and ideology to which the Trump wing of the GOP aspires. Trump very obviously admires him, as does the hard...”