Some “Essential” Jobs Are Still In The Queue to be Automated
Back in May, before leaving his position, Andrew Schaufele, former director of the Bureau of Revenue Estimates, prophesied that due to the pandemic low-wage employees in Maryland would be the most impacted. He was right. Low-wage workers in Prince George’s County, Maryland — a mostly African-American middle-class county with pockets of poverty — have lost thousands of jobs.
Blackface in the Age of Facial Recognition
According to The Virginian Pilot, in an effort to absolve himself of a cultural sin, the governor said that he planned “to pursue the identities of the people in the photos using facial recognition software…”

