Thanks to the pal who sent me this fascinating, useful, and infuriating thread from .@doctorow about the recent follies committed in the name of machine learning. Come for the GIGO, stay for the creation of the Plague Font! https://t.co/niTqX1QUSG
America when the pandemic started
*614 billionaires
*Billionaires worth $2.95 trillion
*Unemployment rate was 3.5%
America a year later
*719 billionaires
*Billionaires worth $4.56 trillion
*Unemployment rate was 6.1%
Don't tell me that billionaires are job creators.
#BREAKING Polls are set to open in 48 hours across the US as the authoritarian regime of Donald Trump attempts to consolidate its hold over the troubled, oil-rich, nuclear-armed, north American nation. Analysts are sceptical the election will end months of political violence.