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"In the near future, AI-driven creation of 'counterfeit reality' or fake content will outpace AI's ability to detect it, fomenting digital distrust." - DD Mishra, a senior director at researcher Gartner Inc.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-21/facebook-has-assembled-a-small-army-of-fact-checkers-too-small

RIP

Sri Lankans and a few others

F.U.

Multi-Function Polis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunction_Polis

Reactionary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary

Indonesian Elections

Nipsey Hussel https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/21/us/nipsey-hussle-investigation-questions/index.html

Ukrainian comedian wins https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/21/zelenskiy-wins-second-round-of-ukraines-presidential-election-exit-poll

North Macedonia https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/22/north-macedonia-presidential-election-goes-to-runoff-as-name-change-divides

Burkina Faso FU: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/apr/22/kalashnikovs-and-no-go-zones-east-burkina-faso-falls-to-militants tl;dr: It has all gone to shit since Blais left

Democracy Sausage

Politics has been banned this week.

Things

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/microplastics-can-travel-on-the-wind-polluting-pristine-regions/

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/04/engineers-create-lifelike-material-artificial-metabolism

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/melting-permafrost-in-arctic-will-have-70tn-climate-impact-study

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/22/the-end-of-the-affair-why-australians-are-falling-out-of-love-with-cars

Stacks

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/21/social-media-shut-down-in-sri-lanka-in-bid-to-stem-misinformation

Everything You Need To Know About Facebook (but were afraid to ask) https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-15-months-of-fresh-hell/

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

OpenAI vs The World! https://estnn.com/dota-2-openai-is-the-machine-overlord-of-dota-2/ https://estnn.com/open-ai-has-a-99-win-rate-over-human-players/

CS:GO - Sydney https://www.esportsonly.com/iem-sydney-csgo-2019-preview-predictions/

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