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Tag: astrazeneca

Pluralistic: 31 Mar 2021


Today's links

  • AT&T will lay off thousands more: After promising that Trump's $20B tax-break would create jobs.
  • Cuba is a vaccine powerhouse: A vaccine for the Global South.
  • Sacklers to use Purdue bankruptcy to escape justice: Crime pays.
  • AI has a GIGO problem: Bias-laundering at mass scale.
  • This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
  • Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading

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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 31, 2021October 11, 2022Tags ai, algorithmic facewash, artificial intelligence, astrazeneca, att, bankruptcy, bias, computer science, corporate socialism, cs, cuba, Curtis Northcutt, gates foundation, guillotine watch, hasta la victoria siempre, imagenet, impunity, labor, law, machine learning, ml, opioids, purdue pharma, sacklers, stimulus, telcoms, telecoms, union busting, vaccine apartheid, vaccines

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