Aram Zucker-Scharff

If you are ever unsure what activists mean when they talk about “rape culture”, it is the culture that produces letters like this, and 3-count convictions that result in 6 months in county jail. The father of Brock Turner, the ex-Stanford swimmer who was given a paltry six-month sentence in a county jail for sexually […]

The European Parliament begins building a formal path towards requiring robots be programmed with Asimov’s Three Laws and providing rights to sentient machines. Robots ‘could pose a challenge to humanity’s capacity to control its own creation.’ via Facebook http://ift.tt/1X6OjGM through IFTTT

“The internet thrives on humiliation. Twitter is always raring for a public shaming. The Crying Jordan meme, which takes one of America’s biggest sports stars and makes him small, indulges those impulses, but it also works on another level as a corrective to online chest-thumping. The meme’s hold over online culture offers clues about our […]

“It has become impossible for elected officials to ignore the simple fact that Social Security is a solution and not a problem, and that the only thing wrong with it are that benefits are too low.” The Obama administration argued in 2012 for reducing Social Security benefits by recalculating the way cost of living adjustments […]