Reality, Algorithms, Moral Clarity, QAnon, Arctic Circle Heat - Five Things - Issue #503

What the science of visual illusions can teach us about our polarized world.

In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man’s arrest for a crime he did not commit.

These writers see the spectre of totalitarianism in an emerging new political consensus—one that they believe challenges the primacy of…