We're Toast 16

This post is a collection of links that support my increasingly strong feeling that the human race (or at least our technological civilization) is doomed. It is part of an ongoing series of posts.

Climate Change and Environment

• America's Leading Medical Groups Declare ‘Public Health Emergency’ Over Climate Change. This is no surprise, but the article lays it out in grim detail.
• Drug resistance likely to kill 400,000 Canadians by 2050, report predicts. And our governments continue to stick their heads in the sand when it comes to funding healthcare. 
• The Amazon Is Fucked Under Brazil's President, New Data Confirms. The Amazon burns while Bolsonaro fiddles.
• New Report Finds Costs of Climate Change Impacts Often Underestimated. The costs of externalities are always underestimated.

Politics 

• The EPA Amends Its 'Transparency' Proposal to Somehow Be Even More Terrible. The War on Science continues.
• This Ohio Bill Gives Students Religious Exemptions for Facts. They can exempt all they want, but the cold hearted universe won't care. 

Technology

• The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack, the Most Deceptive Hack in History. How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack.
• Hikvision Markets Uyghur Ethnicity Analytics, Now Covers Up. More dystopian tech. What's next, a facial recognition system for detecting Jews.?
• Ghost ships, crop circles, and soft gold: A GPS mystery in Shanghai. File under "why we can't have nice things". 
• My Fight With a Sidewalk Robot. A life-threatening encounter with AI technology convinced me that the needs of people with disabilities need to be engineered into our autonomous future.