Nice interactive from The New York Times.

Bendis: Haha! Welcome to my brain!

Shot:

The errors emerged as part of a larger test in which the civil liberties group used Amazon’s facial software to compare the photos of all federal lawmakers against a database of 25,000 publicly available mug shots. In the test, the Amazon technology incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress with people who had been arrested, amounting to a 5 percent error rate among legislators.

Chaser:

The test disproportionally misidentified African-American and Latino members of Congress as the people in mug shots.

Sign me up.

Maybe this leaves time for writing more comics or maybe bringing the X-Men into the MCU?

Via Political Wire:

Public hearings are a circus… I mean that’s why I don’t like to do them.

— House Oversight Committee chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC), in an interview on Face the Nation, suggesting that congressional hearings behind closed doors were “much more constructive” than the public hearings which can be “a circus” and a “freak show.”

American beer is such an appealing and enduring notion — the wholesome drink of the country’s founders, baseball, summer barbecues — that it’s easy to forget it had to be invented.

Off to a great start.

Toward the end of the most recent episode of John Roderick’s 5by5 podcast Road Work (“Lipstick Brown,” episode #115), Dan Benjamin articulates a compelling if not altogether convicing argument that humans are not well-suited for realtime global-scale social media; speaking mostly about Twitter and how he attempts to cope with the stress it encourages upon its users. Some of the social science alluded to is sketchy stuff at best, but the emotional experiences he shares are certainly real and echoed by many.

Anyways, there are interesting implications of arguments of this sort. In particular, it would to some extent absolve Jack Dorsey of not fixing Twitter attempts to do so being rather Sisyphean. Though even if it can’t be perfect, I do think Twitter could be a lot better and wouldn’t want to let anyone running a multi-billion dollar company off the hook so easily.