Pluralistic: Why are so many Californians homeless? (12 July 2023)

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Why are so many Californians homeless?: It's not "homeless migration."
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Pluralistic: 11 Oct 2022 Trusting (machine learning) trust; The housing market turns (more) toxic

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Undetectable, undefendable back-doors for machine learning: IMPNet will give your model hallucination and you can't stop it.
Shelter in place: Prison for homelessness and lock-ins for home owners.
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Pluralistic: 17 Nov 2020

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Cross-Media Sci-Fi with Amber Benson and John Rogers: The Attack Surface Lectures continue.
Storage Wars: The eviction epidemic comes to New York's self-storage lockers.
Embedded machine learning: Offline, low-powered and ubiquitous.
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Pluralistic: 14 Aug 2020

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The CARES Shock Doctrine: How the Dems and the GOP took care of billionaires and fucked the rest of us.
NYC homeless lose bathroom access: Not a pot to piss in.
NYC Street View, WPA edition: Every municipal building in New York City, 1939-41.
Maidan in Belarus: Riot cops drop their shields and embrace protesters.
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