Computing Pioneers Endorse Biden, Citing Immigration – The New York Times

Two dozen award-winning computer scientists, in a rebuke of President Trump’s immigration policies, said on Friday that they were endorsing Joseph R. Biden Jr. in November’s presidential election.

The scientists, including John Hennessy, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, are all winners of the Turing Award, which is often called the Nobel Prize of computing.

In a group interview, four of the scientists said the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration rules were a threat to computer research in the United States and could do long-term damage to the tech industry, which for decades has been one of the country’s economic engines.

“The most brilliant people in the world want to come here and be grad students, but now they are being discouraged from coming here, and many are going elsewhere,” said one of the scientists who organized the endorsement, David Patterson, a Google distinguished engineer and former professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Facebook Tried to Limit QAnon. It Failed. – The New York Times

a militia movement on Facebook that called for armed conflict on the streets of U.S. cities has gained thousands of new followers. A QAnon Facebook group has also added hundreds of new followers while questioning common-sense pandemic medical practices, like wearing a mask in public and staying at home while sick. And a campaign that claimed to raise awareness of human trafficking has steered hundreds of thousands of people to conspiracy theory groups and pages on the social network. Perhaps the most jarring part? At times, Facebook’s own recommendation engine — the algorithm that surfaces content for people on the site — has pushed users toward the very groups that were discussing QAnon conspiracies, according to research conducted by The New York Times, despite assurances from the company that that would not happen. None of this was supposed to take place under new Facebook rules targeting QAnon and other extremist movements.  The Silicon Valley company’s inability to quash extremist content, despite frequent flags from concerned users, is now renewing questions about the limits of its policing and whether it will be locked in an endless fight with QAnon and other groups that see it as a key battleground in their online war.

Mike Pence’s Former Senior Aide Wants Everyone to Vote For Joe Biden

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On Wednesday, Olivia Troye, Vice President Mike Pence’s top aide on the White House’s ill-fated and much-maligned coronavirus task force, came out publicly against Donald Trump, and specifically his handling of the covid-19 pandemic. She’s going to be voting for Joe Biden, and she wants other Republicans to join her.

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School and Campus Workers Say: Not Until It’s Safe

21 adults in masks outside a school. Together they hold "CAUTION" tape. Handmade signs say "100% remote start," "no mas muertes," "ready or not," "we demand safe schools," "no more martyrs for the DOE #Remote until it's safe" and "people got sick in this buidling."

September 18, 2020 / Alexandra Bradbury

The push to reopen schools and campuses is hitting educators with a brutal fact: your employer will place you in deadly danger for the sake of the economy.

You knew this already if you worked in a meatpacking plant, an Amazon warehouse, or a construction site. But until 2020 you didn’t think a school or university job might kill you.

CENSORED NEWS: Navajo President blocks Dine’ College professor from questioning COVID-19 vaccine risks (ignoring 1st Amendment and free speech)

Navajo President Jonathan Nez blocked a Dine’ College professor online from questioning the biological and cultural risks of coronavirus vaccine experiments on Navajos.

Dine’ College Assoc. Professor Christine M. Ami said, “I have been officially blocked from commenting on the Office of President and Vice President’s site. This is an example of the censorship that our Navajo Nation government is perusing. I’m not being belligerent — I am asking basic questions.”

Source: CENSORED NEWS: Navajo President blocks Dine’ College professor from questioning COVID-19 vaccine risks

French city of Nice tightens coronavirus curbs as cases soar

The city of Nice on the French Riviera will ban gatherings of more than 10 people in public spaces as it seeks to curb COVID-19 infections that are soaring in the region, local authorities said on Friday.

The city of Nice on the French Riviera will ban gatherings of more than 10 people in public spaces as it seeks to curb COVID-19 infections that are soaring in the region, local authorities said on Friday.

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