Caroline Haskins
caroline.haskins@vice.com
Predictive Policing
Academics Confirm Major Predictive Policing Algorithm is Fundamentally Flawed
PredPol uses an algorithm based on earthquake prediction to “predict crime.” Academics say it’s simplistic and harmful.
Caroline Haskins
3 days ago
YouTube
How YouTube Drives Shane Dawson and Other Creators to Conspiracy Theories
YouTube structurally prioritizes audience feedback, which can drive content-makers to promote conspiracy theories or hate.
Caroline Haskins
5 days ago
amazon
Amazon’s Home Security Company Is Turning Everyone Into Cops
Neighbors, a social media crime-reporting app owned by Amazon, creates a digital ecosystem in which you are encouraged to assume the worst about your neighbors—and people of color are once again being harmed.
Caroline Haskins
2.7.19
Green New Deal
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Should Nationalize Utilities
PG&E is asking for a bailout. Instead, we should make that utility, and all utilities, public assets.
Caroline Haskins
2.7.19
Predictive Policing
Dozens of Cities Have Secretly Experimented With Predictive Policing Software
Documents obtained by Motherboard using public information requests verify previously unconfirmed police department contracts with predictive policing company PredPol.
Caroline Haskins
2.6.19
TikTok
TikTok Can't Save Us from Algorithmic Content Hell
TikTok is not immune from engagement-hungry algorithms that dominate the internet as we know it.
Caroline Haskins
1.31.19
antarctica
Scientists Discovered a Dinosaur Ancestor Called the 'Antarctic King'
Antarctanax shackletoni, or the “Antarctic king,” is an iguana-sized ancestor to dinosaurs and modern crocodiles.
Caroline Haskins
1.31.19
hedgehogs
Stop Kissing Your Hedgehogs or You Might Get Salmonella, CDC Warns
According to the CDC, there’s a salmonella outbreak in 11 states that has been linked to contact with hedgehogs. Hedgehogs are cancelled.
Caroline Haskins
1.28.19
antarctica
Dead Tardigrade Found Buried 3,200 feet-Deep in Antarctica Lake
Scientists found a carcass of the extremophile, microbial tardigrade a kilometer underground near an Antarctic lake.
Caroline Haskins
1.18.19
climate change
Climate Change-Driven Heat Wave Killed a Third of a Bat Population in Two Days
Almost one third of a bat species population in Australia perished during a heat wave in November 2018.
Caroline Haskins
1.16.19
OCEAN
Climate Change Is Making Waves Stronger
Climate change is changing our wind patterns, which is strengthening waves traveling across the earth's surface.
Caroline Haskins
1.14.19
archives
Border Patrol Union Just Deleted a Webpage Saying a Wall Would Be 'Wasting Taxpayer Money'
Digital archives show that the page was deleted after the union's president supported building a border wall with Donald Trump in the White House Briefing Room.
Caroline Haskins
1.11.19
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