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Black students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design say there are no design courses that consider race and justice. Here’s an outline for one. Source: There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus

Bookmarking to read later; Statement in Opposition to Sb 827 – Luxury Development for the Rich, Displacement and Dispossession for the Poor

This looks promising: The New Cognitive Property It’s about intellectual property and something they call “cognitive property” which fits in between IP and the data we produce as workers or consumers.  Sharing before reading…

Facebook is being sued by a prominent civil rights group for alleged discrimination in advertising. The plaintiffs say Facebook allowed landlords to exclude women and people with children from seeing housing ads. Source: No women or families: Facebook sued over ‘insidious’ housing ads — RT US News  

I need to assemble one of these: How A Twitter Fight Over Bernie Sanders Revealed A Network Of Fake Accounts She had a virtual army of trolls.  She got some real accounts, and probably made a lot more, and then used Buffer to control them. Meanwhile, the Bernie side was like the opposite. We’d call…

Source: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants I found that article on an aggreagtor, and replied to it, rather than the original.  So I posted the response here, figuring it wouldn’t get approved. I then found the original, and looked at the comment section. Zerohedge commenters are a bunch of libertarians…