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More exciting than such an AI-generated movie would be all of the prompts approved for the final product (unless the prompts themselves were to be mostly AI-generated).
The problem is not that bad if you just don't look at it, or so the COVID playbook taught us [1]:
In July 2020, The Trump administration ordered hospitals to stop reporting coronavirus case data to the CDC entirely and instead submit all information to the TeleTracking database. The government only gave hospitals a few days’ advanced warning of the change. Health experts from the CDC Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee warned the Trump administration that the decision would impose increased burdens on hospitals and limit researchers’ ability to access critical information. Following the change in procedures, outside researchers reported significant lags in the publication of information about the number of patients being treated and hospital capacity, and that the government’s hospitalization numbers for some days were implausibly low.
[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/trum...
The original title is:
Speeding incurs substantial environmental and economic costs nationwide for negligible travel time savings
The original title is:
New EU Court of Justice Ruling on Platform Liability Could Cause Collateral Damage to Freedom of Expression
There doesn't seem to be any real push for educating and protecting kids before it happens.
Before abstinence and birth control, CSA prevention should be the primary goal of sex ed in schools, especially before high school. (Though on birth control [1] and probably STIs as well the US is not doing well.)
[1] https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/sex-education...
According to Barb McQuade [1]:
Obtaining phone records of reporters is supposed to be a last resort for DOJ. Obtaining records of their relatives is unheard of.
[1] https://bsky.app/profile/barbmcquade.bsky.social/post/3mr46i...
> The Security Assessment for Evaluating Risk (SAFER) program has been operating quietly in Ontario’s jails since early 2021. SAFER inputs a prisoner’s personal information—including arrests, charges, and disciplinary records—into an algorithm.
An individual person's previous criminal behavior is not "garbage" for predicting their future behavior
Just as in your first reply, you're ignoring the main problem posed by the article, that the information getting inputted is not truthful for some individuals and not equally truthful across different individuals. People of different races are not getting the same information put in for the same crimes because a person of one race gets a charge or conviction where a person of another race might not [1]. People of one race tend to get more severe punishments for the same type and level of crime compared to people of another race [2]. ([1] and [2] are linked in TFA.) Disciplinary actions (and thus, disciplinary records) toward detainees (before/no conviction) and inmates (after conviction) by jail and prison staff respectively are arbitrary and subject to in-the-moment biases that might normally get diluted (not always eliminated) during the process between charge and conviction. If all of these data were fed into an algorithm as if equally weighted and equally truthful, it's a given that such an algorithm would produce biased outcomes, even if the algorithm were not the source of the bias. Another problem emphasized in the article is that the public doesn't know how the SAFER algorithm works nor how the government inputs data.
The Breach's investigation suggests that at least one (possibly both) of the following are happening:
1. Black people are getting put in higher level "security" (meaning isolation) than they should be.
2. People of at least one other race are getting put in lower level "security" than they should be.
in fact prior behavior is one of the best predictors for future behavior that we have. Even the Prison Policy Initiative's own data shows this.
(For clarity: statistical predictions are correlations, not causation.) Here you're overstating how meaningful the correlation is for the purposes of deciding both the dangerousness of a person with multiple convictions and the appropriate different severity of punishments for people with different numbers of convictions [3]:
An analysis of prior convictions shows that even those with many prior convictions are still unlikely to be rearrested for a new violent crime while on release. Figure 1 divides all those released into four groups based on their number of prior convictions. We then calculate the fraction of each group that was rearrested for a violent crime. About 1.5% of those with no prior record were rearrested, a number that rose only slightly for defendants with one conviction. On the other end of the spectrum, about 2.5% of those with four or more prior convictions were rearrested. Thus, the rearrest rate was not quite twice as high for those with many convictions as for those with none. A single past conviction, though, hardly appears to predict any increased dangerousness. Repeat offenders—those who have four prior convictions—were only arrested for pretrial violent crime in about 1 in 30 instances.
[1] https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/impact-action-final-report-anti-bl...
[2] https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/rrbb-bbrr/conclusions...
[3] https://static.prisonpolicy.org/scans/Baradaran_predictingvi...
You're ignoring the garbage-in-garbage-out problem that forms the basis of the article.
The original title is:
Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI
Khelif was interviewed recently and confirmed having the SRY gene and taking medication to suppress testosterone. The results of Khelif's karyotype testing have also been published, and show XY chromosomes. Excerpts of Khelif's medical file were obtained by an investigative journalist, and show a diagnosis of 5-ARD, which is a disorder of sex development that only affects males. It causes a malformed penis and internal testes, but otherwise normal male development in the rest of the body.
If you're referring to the reportedly leaked 2023 Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital assessment by doctors Jacques Young and Soumaya Fedala, (assuming that the leak is real) the assessment concluded that Imane Khelif is female based on the entirety of her clinical history (as well as the parts of the report which were not leaked?). Khelif is very likely to have XY chromosomes (not certain because the SRY gene that she confirmed is not 100% indicative of the XY chromosome pair) and I was incorrect to conclusively refer to her as female, but based on her physical development, on a scale between female and male I don't think Khelif crosses the ambiguous middle zone toward male.
Lin kept quiet after failing sex verification so we don't know the full details
That is not evidence in any direction, and IBA did not reveal its testing methodology or data. That is, the IBA kept quiet. The IBA also contradicted itself [1] (ignore the pasted Wikipedia citation numbers):
During the International Boxing Association (IBA) press conference in Paris on 5 August 2024, the position of the organization and its president Umar Kremlev regarding the nature of the conducted tests underwent changes and became contradictory. Initially, the IBA claimed that gender tests were conducted, but at the conference, Secretary General Chris Roberts spoke of "chromosome tests", while Kremlev asserted that the tests were aimed at determining testosterone levels in athletes. The situation was exacerbated by Kremlev's harsh statements; he repeatedly criticized IOC President Thomas Bach, declared his intention to initiate legal proceedings against him and expressed dissatisfaction with the Olympic Games opening ceremony, calling it "humiliating".[25][26][27][28] The IBA claimed to have used laboratories accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for testing, but WADA denied involvement in gender verification, stating it deals solely with anti-doping matters.
There is no possible good faith reason for nicenicen to double down on leevilux's blatant falsehoods. Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting were assigned female at birth, and have always been women.
OP: I remember when the event that shouldn't be controversial was made controversial.
Bad faith reply: You don't remember the event that should be controversial and was controversial?
Give and you shall receive. In case you forgot the event that shouldn't be controversial [1]:
U.S. representative Peter King, a member of the Republican Party, deemed the suit's color combined with the subject matter of terrorism to be "unpresidential". He went on: "There's no way, I don't think, any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday. I mean, you have the world watching".
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controve...
While siphoning the remaining public school funding to private schools [1]:
ProPublica analyzed data from 13 states of varying sizes that do publish private school directories and offer public funding to these types of schools, and found that at least 1,500 more are listed today than were five years ago — bringing the total to more than 9,600. The numbers provide a rare look into the growth catalyzed by friendly legislatures and government money, while public school districts are losing students and closing schools.
When public money is available, most private schools take advantage of that funding. In several states, all or nearly all students at some private schools pay tuition with public dollars.
[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/private-schools-vouchers-...
The original title is:
How the Watch Dogs Video Game Series Mirrored and Predicted Real-World Digital Rights Issues
The full title is:
Election denial activists briefed at White House ahead of Trump’s primetime speech
There is another platitude people spout on the matter. "Technology is not neutral." Usually without elaborating.
And some people post the "usually without elaborating" platitude even in response to elaborations.
Try to bring up something factually correct like: cristian culture in 19th century UK abolished slavery worldwide
Correction:
cristian culture in 19th century UK
(mostly) got rid of (its own sector of) the worldwide slavery system created by... Christian culture in 15th century what-is-now UK, among other predominantly Christian countries.
The original title is:
FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable AI Tech to Review Signatures on Seized Mail-In Ballots
The original title is:
Most Smart Watches, Rings, and Bands Lack Basic Transparency Reports and Key Privacy Features
The full title is:
A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
The original title is:
FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
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New York City’s chief technologist is launching a new team to transform the city’s technology
What a dreadful memory to resurface. I had the exact same errors when I tried running the Creative Cloud uninstaller program, so I hunted through all of my /library and ~/library subfolders for anything containing "adobe", "photoshop", "creative cloud", or "CC". I'm very confident that I didn't delete anything unrelated to Adobe, and I'm equally unconfident that I deleted every single file related to Adobe.
Literally when it was revealed he would lose billions of dollars if he dropped out, people that didn't like him celebrated that he would have to buy it.
Elon Musk accidentally signed the final purchase agreement before realizing that the document he signed was final. People who didn't want Elon Musk to own Twitter didn't necessarily change their mind about that part, but celebrated that he would lose even more money if he tried to back out of the deal he finalized or that he would be forced by a court to follow the agreement he signed.
In July 2025, the CDC made monitoring of most FoodNet-tracked foodborne illnesses (including the one mentioned in TFA) "optional", which really means the CDC stopped tracking them since a year ago [1].
[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-stopped-monitoring-diarrh...
Correct, Beth Mole is the author. One of the few times safety squints work better than goggles.
In Danbury, ICE agents might have worn vests saying "media" [1].
[1] https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/ice-agents-danbury-me...
The original title is:
Construction workers, electricians, couriers: How ICE agents use disguises to deceive and detain migrants
Regarding Shiva Ayyadurai v. U.S. in particular:
There are DOZENS of cases applying Section 230(c)(1) to removal decisions, so for the court to think that it’s spotted something that all of those other courts have missed is laughable…and completely gratuitous…and ultimately inconsequential given that the court still tosses the case.
The court tries to justify its reluctance on Section 230(c)(1):
> There is little reason to strain the reach of the immunity in Section 230(c)(1) when, as in this case, the immunity in Section 230(c)(2) leads to the same result.
NOOOO. There are several excellent reasons to apply both 230(c)(1) and 230(c)(2):
(1) 230(c)(1) doesn’t have a good faith prerequisite, which has mucked up 230(c)(2) jurisprudence and made 12(b)(6) dismissals much more difficult to obtain, jacking up the litigation costs for both sides and giving false hope to bogus claims. Indeed, because the court dismissed this case without prejudice, I’m sure an amended complaint will try again to manufacture bad faith sufficient to kick the case into very expensive discovery;
(2) removal and leave-up decisions are two sides of the same decision, i.e., every editorial decision about an item of third-party content is either a leave-up or removal decision, so they cannot be separated; and
(3) the statute and 25+ years of caselaw have established the principle that 230(c)(1) applies to removal decisions.
The original title is:
Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
I added the word "Were" to clarify that witnesses were being pressured as opposed to doing the pressuring.