• ex-reporter ex-teacher ex-attorney, he/him
• law, journalism, education, security, privacy, surveillance tech, AI fairness, bias, face recognition, Blue Dot, LFL steward
• Springfield MO <NorCal <NH <MA <WI
• UC Berkeley JD'89; UMass Amherst BA'83
Mark Welch
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Today's reading distraction: "Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet" (2011) by Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, Derrick Jensen.
"This culture destroys landbases. That’s what it does. When you think of Iraq, is the first thing that comes to mind cedar forests....?"
Good morning to everyone except the officials who signed off on a detention facility where inadequate screening contributed to a TB outbreak, three detainees died, and evidence was reportedly missing or destroyed in one detainee death investigation.
None of this is normal or acceptable.
Mark Welch
Alt CDC (they/them)
“President Donald Trump took a major step this week toward turning the federal workforce into an arm of partisan governance.”
federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2...
“The CFTC will provide clearer parameters around what bets are allowed on Kalshi and other platforms, but won’t ban certain contracts” www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
The CFTC will provide clearer parameters around what bets are allowed on Kalshi and other platforms, but won’t ban certain contracts.
Today's reading distraction: "The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever" (2007) by Christopher Hitchens.
"How did such evil nonsense ever come to be so influential?"
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