Jun 28, 2020

Reality, Algorithms, Moral Clarity, QAnon, Arctic Circle Heat - Five Things - Issue #503

By Nico Lumma • Issue #503 • View online

As I’m typing this newsletter, we finally get some rain and we’re looking forward to even more time at home with our kids. So without further ado, I suggest you delve into these five articles I picked out for you. I enjoyed reading them and I even felt a little smarter afterwards, despite the summer heat.

"Reality" is constructed by your brain. Here’s what that means, and why it matters.

What the science of visual illusions can teach us about our polarized world.

www.vox.com • Share

Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm

In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man’s arrest for a crime he did not commit.

www.nytimes.com • Share

Why Are Some Journalists Afraid of “Moral Clarity”?

These writers see the spectre of totalitarianism in an emerging new political consensus—one that they believe challenges the primacy of traditional liberal values.

www.newyorker.com • Share

Down the rabbit hole: how QAnon conspiracies thrive on Facebook

Guardian investigation finds more than 3m aggregate followers and members support QAnon on Facebook, and their numbers are growing

www.theguardian.com • Share

Arctic Circle records 100 degree temperature amid Siberian heatwave

New observations from a weather station in Siberia illustrate the warming trend taking hold in the Arctic Circle, with scientists logging an extreme temperature of 38 °C (100.4 °F), thought to be a new record for the region.

newatlas.com • Share

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By Nico Lumma

Every Sunday Morning I send out my newsletter Five Things which features five articles I think you should read. These five articles have exactly one thing in common: I find them interesting. :)

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