The “Who Surveils the Surveillors?” Edition

JL;DR SUMMARY In the "Who Surveils the Surveillors? Edition," Noah Efron, Allison Kaplan Sommer, and Don Futterman discuss Israel's use of machine-learning AI for detecting lone terrorists, the monitoring of rabbinic lectures for sexist and homophobic content, and the proposal to replace price tags with smart screens and surge pricing in supermarkets. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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