so now we're saying weather control/manipulation is real then?
i guess the conspiracy nuts were right again.
Readit Newssatokema_work commented on Dubai is making its own fake rain to beat 122°F heat independent.co.uk/climate... · Posted by u/kn9
The first two could qualify as 'mass surveillance and/or stealing of private information' depending how liberally that's interpreted. Extortion is already illegal, anyway (but then again, so are many of the prohibited activities in this license, although I suppose it's not illegal to simply 'support' them as this license prohibits).
its not stealing if people are giving that information out for free or if it's just metadata, nothing immoral there
satokema_work commented on The unusual ways Western parents raise children bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/elijahparker
At some point, you are going to have to use some sort of force to confine or constrain to prevent the child from engaging in unwanted behavior.
No matter what flowery language or loopy logic you use to avoid the subject, you are applying force.
Is it better to have well-thought out uses of force instead of just hitting the kid when they make you angry? Of course. But don't pretend that living in the world requires no discipline at all.
Your freedom of speech does not require me or Mailchimp to carry, propagate, or amplify your speech, whether for free or for pay.
With a key difference:
"Your freedom of speech does not require me or your ISP to carry, propagate, or amplify your speech, whether for free or for pay."
Start to see the problem here, yet?
satokema_work commented on Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/pseudolus
This one's obvious. I've gotten ads ON OTHER PEOPLE'S DEVICES targeting me (a habitual blocker of ads). They were very industry specific and I was hanging out with people that would have nothing to do with that industry.
satokema_work commented on Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny abcnews.go.com/Health/wir... · Posted by u/seigando
Police should never be permitted to direct medical professionals to do anything to a person in their custody unless it is to save their life. Medical professionals should be hyper-trained on how to tell police “hell no” and to report their requests to an independent agency for investigation.
There are other types of scenarios where out of control cops bully doctors and nurses into doing illegal things, two that I have read about:
- forcing a suspect to be subject to anal cavity search by a doctor at a hospital after a traffic stop
- forcing hospital staff to run blood tests on an awake, non-consenting suspect
Everyone who has ever dealt with the medical world for a personal or family problem understands that there are few “sure things” and that something that worked miraculously for someone’s problem might not work for yours, even if they seem like the same problem. Allowing police a position to direct medical care is utterly outrageous and irresponsible.
That said, what was done to Elijah McCain is one of the sickest, most unacceptably fucked up nightmare scenarios I’ve ever heard of. The initial interaction was a result of racist police who then had their victim murdered because they never saw him as a person, just another potential criminal.
Don't forget psych evaluations - with the implication that they should be found unfit for release. This one is a favorite of "cops" that don't actually have authority to arrest people or no probable cause for it.
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AI recommendations is something for bored people in my opinion. Sure, you may stumble upon content you would not have considered, but the examples people tend to bring up aren't too convincing.
Some might think that showing depressed people some cute dog pics would lighten them up, but that isn't how it works. On the contrary, the expectations towards themselves to be happy can be counterproductive.
I believe this is the crux of the matter, since social media tends to load people with expectations, depression or not and advertisers try to use this handle to promoted their products.
If a site would try to "transfer positive emotions" I would be seriously concerned. Humans don't even know what content would be best for an individual. How would you train an AI? From resonance of other users? No, that leaves out a lot of context.
But I still don't think AI curators should be regulated, because the quality of regulation would certainly be horrible.
In some places though (see: algorithmic views of the primary content e.e. facebook or twitter, youtube recs), the recommendations can't be disabled.
You cannot avoid the machine entirely, and all it might take is showing a thumbnail or a preview of something to you.
This sort of thing has led me to getting off those services.
From one perspective, the rise of Politically Correct English evinces a kind of Lenin-to-Stalinesque irony. That is, the same ideological principles that informed the original Descriptivist revolution---namely, the rejections of traditional authority (born of Vietnam) and of traditional inequality (born of the civil rights movement)---have now actually produced a far more inflexible Prescriptivism, one largely unencumbered by tradition or complexity and backed by the threat of real-world sanctions (termination, litigation) for those who fail to conform.
This is funny in a dark way, maybe, and it's true that most criticisms of PCE seem to consist in making fun of its trendiness or vapidity.
This reviewer's own opinion is that prescriptive PCE is not just silly but ideologically confused and harmful to its own cause.
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Forget Stalinization or Logic 101-level equivocations, though. There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact---in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself---of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.
Were I, for instance,a political conservative who opposed using taxation as a means of redistributing national wealth, I would be delighted to watch PC progressives spend their time and energy arguing over whether a poor person should be described as "low-income" or "economically disadvantaged" or "pre-prosperous" rather than constructing effective public arguments for redistributive legislation or higher marginal tax rates.
(Not to mention that strict codes of egalitarian euphemism serve to burke the sorts of painful,unpretty, and sometimes offensive discourse that in a pluralistic democracy lead to actual political change rather than symbolic political change. In other words, PCE acts as a form of censorship, and censorship always serves the status quo.)
"Authority and American Usage", 1999
This is an amazing DFW essay and probably one of the only places that notes American Black English as an actual entity and a tricky issue to deal with, especially as an educator.
Asking (and explaining the logic of main vs master) would be better UX than forcing a new paradigm into contexts where it's not welcome - all of my corpo repos use master; sneaking main into new repos is not helpful.