Nichole Perkins asks: “Why does seeing a black man with a white woman stir up a hornet’s nest of racism, but not the reverse?”
The Second Machine Age authors Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson imagine the future: “New varieties of robot are rapidly diffusing throughout the manufacturing and logistics industries, high-end professions like medicine and law will be affected by digital discoverers and diagnosticians, and even the stereotypically lousy-but-safe job of ‘burger-flipper’ faces competition from technology: a recently unveiled machine can convert raw materials into more than 300 totally customized burgers per hour.”
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Welp: Prominent open carry gun rights activist jailed over threatening people with his gun.
Not that it’s funny. But it’s really like someone is doing a reductio ad absurdum experiment with the Stand Your Ground law in Florida: how close can you get to just pulling out your gun and blowing some kid’s head off and still be able to even get into court with a ‘stand your ground’ defense. A Florida jury is now deliberates for a second day in the Michael Dunn ‘loud music’ case in which killer Michael Dunn responded with deadly force to loud music.
Push for gay marriage ban suffers big setback in Indiana. Indiana.
Rightwing guerrilla video editor James O’Keefe and his organization sued for defamation and wrongful termination.
According to this report, Brent Bozell not only doesn’t write any of his columns or books. He apparently practices what one insider refers to as “forced ghostwriting.” Like do we need someone NGO to head over to Bozell’s place and free this person?
Sahil Kapur explains how SCOTUS lit a fuse that leads inevitably to striking down marriage discrimination everywhere in the USA.
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in the latest excerpt from their book The Second Machine Age: “In short, median income has increased very little since 1979, and it has actually fallen since 1999. But that’s not because growth of overall income or productivity in America has stagnated.”
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Yesterday’s federal court ruling in Kentucky really does show us that not only are bans on same sex marriage on the way out. It’s probably coming much sooner than we think, as TPM Reader JW explains …
On the Kentucky same sex marriage ruling, this truly is the sign that the game is over and it’s just the death throes now. It’s not just because this is a GHWB appointee, but more due to the brevity and clarity of the ruling. While other judges have written long opinions, jumping through various hoops to feel confident in their ruling, Judge Heyburn wastes little time and words getting to his. Opposing legal arguments are quickly disposed of. His ruling has a three part core of (i) Equal Protection under the 14th Amendment, (ii) Loving vs Virginia, and (iii) Justice Kennedy.