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A lot of public domain data is antiquated—in the US, for example, copyright protection usually lasts over seventy years from the death of the author—so this type of dataset won’t be able to ground an AI model in current affairs or, say, how to spin up a blog post using current slang.

For centuries, men like Powell and Bakke had benefited from a near-100 percent quota system, one that reserved nearly all the seats at this nation’s best-funded public and private schools and most-exclusive public and private colleges, all the homes in the best neighborhoods and all the top, well-paying jobs in private companies and public agencies for white Americans. Men like Bakke did not acknowledge the systemic advantages they had accrued because of their racial category, nor all the ways their race had unfairly benefited them. More critical, neither did the Supreme Court. As members of the majority atop the caste system, racial advantage transmitted invisibly to them. They took notice of their race only when confronted with a new system that sought to redistribute some of that advantage to people who had never had it.

conservatives argue that programs specifically helping the women most likely to die violate the 14th Amendment

we have decided as a nation that there is nothing we should do to help Black Americans achieve equality and that we will remain a caste society

Race-based affirmative action has died. The fight for racial justice need not. It cannot

Her dreams of space exploration began in Crestview, watching Star Trek: Enterprise with her dad

she was almost afraid to express her distaste for the system–and for capitalism–too loudly

They’ve got technological capabilities that are well above where they are emotionally or psychologically