I see the CEO of Babylon Bee likes to assume that just because they know a particular cultural reference and can use it in satire, that everyone else in the world should also know that reference, and be able to recognise it as satire.
It's almost like they think there's a panacea for content moderation that knows all and can determine all cases with 100% accuracy. How's that working in for them?
When will we start seeing judges raising an eyebrow in court when a camera conveniently failed to turn on or camera footage 'has gone missing'.
Any time this happens, and especially when there's a pattern of it from any given district, judges should be pointing out to juries how unreliable police testimony is without corroborating evidence.
And so-called 'contemporaneous notes' are not corroboration, they're just an aide memoire to the police officer of what they want their official story to be.
And the ignorance of civil servants and politicians shows yet again. How many times must we say, they need technologists and experts in the room when discussing subjects about which they clearly know next to nothing. I'm sure other industries have the same problem, but it seems to be most obvious in IT ... or is that "cyber"?
To take your comment seriously for a moment, any time you get a place where students and lecturers and researchers (of any discipline, let alone palaeontology) go to hang out away from home, there will be the inevitable consumption of alcohol and subsequent high jinks. Sometimes even in conference sessions.
As noted by Brigid Christison in the article, palaeontology is not immune from racism, sexism, ageism, or any other -ism that can be a source of insult, offence or downright bullying or assault. These need not even be associated with alcohol.
Therefore, it is not unreasonable for the organisers to be cautious about dealing with these kinds of things before the fact.
That they got it a bit wrong is sad, but a consequence of believing that the computer can be the arbiter without a lot of contextual assistance.
This is one of the most baffling aspects of the manner in which the US government collectively makes laws.
How does a bill concerned with military spending have anything AT ALL to do with CDA 230?
Does nobody make any effort to ensure a bill for, say, healthcare, contains only things related directly to the healthcare system? Or does every congress-critter look upon every bill as an opportunity to get a new bridge, or civic centre, or un-related concession for their constituents or donors?
It seems to me that this kind of pork barrel politics is a sign of a very weak system, and does nothing to expunge the idea that all politicians have their snouts in the trough.
It also raises the question of why the person thinks America isn't great already?
I mean, as a dirty furriner, it ain't never been all that great for a variety of reasons around health & social care, treatment of minorities, a shaky democracy (even for such a young country), and so on. It's just pretty culturally dominant in the English-speaking world.
But then again, there isn't a country in the world that I would describe as being 'great' except for in the geographic sense. (like Grand Cayman, or Great Britain, or Greater London)
It's exactly the kind of shenanigans those of us opposed to Brexit have been talking about for years! Brexit was predicated on some sort of post colonial rose-tinted view of the power of a little island nation off the west coast of one of the most powerful markets in the world. Bonkers thinking throughout the entire process.
No. The world goes around because back around 4.6 billion years ago it was accreted from many thousands (or millions, we don't actually know) of collisions of debris from a super-nova. Very few of those collisions hit precisely on the centre-line of mass of the two objects, and so all those collisions imparted various amounts of angular momentum to the resulting body, which over the aeons added up into a preferential spin of the earth. And because the debris cloud was orbiting the nascent sun with the angular momentum of the previous system, it already had a spin around the axis of that system providing the abundance of angular momentum aligned in the plane of the solar system. Hence most of the planets in the solar system spin in roughly the same orientation.
The movement of little green pieces of paper really had and has no involvement as they're too small to have any effect upon the angular momentum of an object the size of the Earth.
Tell me again why I should care that the horse buggy manufacturers were put out of business by a change in the market?
(Individuals' jobs aside, that is. Thankfully, individual sales people can be taught to sell other things, or do something actually productive with their time.)
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I see the CEO of Babylon Bee likes to assume that just because they know a particular cultural reference and can use it in satire, that everyone else in the world should also know that reference, and be able to recognise it as satire.
It's almost like they think there's a panacea for content moderation that knows all and can determine all cases with 100% accuracy. How's that working in for them?
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When will we start seeing judges raising an eyebrow in court when a camera conveniently failed to turn on or camera footage 'has gone missing'.
Any time this happens, and especially when there's a pattern of it from any given district, judges should be pointing out to juries how unreliable police testimony is without corroborating evidence.
And so-called 'contemporaneous notes' are not corroboration, they're just an aide memoire to the police officer of what they want their official story to be.
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And the ignorance of civil servants and politicians shows yet again. How many times must we say, they need technologists and experts in the room when discussing subjects about which they clearly know next to nothing. I'm sure other industries have the same problem, but it seems to be most obvious in IT ... or is that "cyber"?
On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: Profanity Filter Causes Problems At Paleontology Conference (October 2020)
Re: It makes you wonder
To take your comment seriously for a moment, any time you get a place where students and lecturers and researchers (of any discipline, let alone palaeontology) go to hang out away from home, there will be the inevitable consumption of alcohol and subsequent high jinks. Sometimes even in conference sessions.
As noted by Brigid Christison in the article, palaeontology is not immune from racism, sexism, ageism, or any other -ism that can be a source of insult, offence or downright bullying or assault. These need not even be associated with alcohol.
Therefore, it is not unreasonable for the organisers to be cautious about dealing with these kinds of things before the fact.
That they got it a bit wrong is sad, but a consequence of believing that the computer can be the arbiter without a lot of contextual assistance.
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Re: "Republicans are sick of this shit."
Some of us were throwing up in our mouths almost as soon as he hit the campaign trail during the Republican primaries!
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Re: Re: Popcorn stock rising...
... at least finish your sentence before hitting submit.
On the post: World's Worst Copyright Troll, Richard Liebowitz, Suspended From Practicing Law
Re: Popcorn stock rising...
If you're going to throw newly learned words around in order to try to look clever, you contumacious troll. ;)
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Why does Congress even allow this kind of thing?
This is one of the most baffling aspects of the manner in which the US government collectively makes laws.
How does a bill concerned with military spending have anything AT ALL to do with CDA 230?
Does nobody make any effort to ensure a bill for, say, healthcare, contains only things related directly to the healthcare system? Or does every congress-critter look upon every bill as an opportunity to get a new bridge, or civic centre, or un-related concession for their constituents or donors?
It seems to me that this kind of pork barrel politics is a sign of a very weak system, and does nothing to expunge the idea that all politicians have their snouts in the trough.
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Re: Re:
It also raises the question of why the person thinks America isn't great already?
I mean, as a dirty furriner, it ain't never been all that great for a variety of reasons around health & social care, treatment of minorities, a shaky democracy (even for such a young country), and so on. It's just pretty culturally dominant in the English-speaking world.
But then again, there isn't a country in the world that I would describe as being 'great' except for in the geographic sense. (like Grand Cayman, or Great Britain, or Greater London)
On the post: UK Politician Demands The Impossible: Social Media Companies Must Not Take Down Political Speech, But Must Block Disinformation
Re:
Precisely.
How do you know that a politician is lying? Their lips are moving.
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Re: This is what happens if you invite DMCA shadowbanning
What is this 'tumblr' of which you speak?
You mean they actually survived the purge of 90% of their content?
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Re:
It's exactly the kind of shenanigans those of us opposed to Brexit have been talking about for years! Brexit was predicated on some sort of post colonial rose-tinted view of the power of a little island nation off the west coast of one of the most powerful markets in the world. Bonkers thinking throughout the entire process.
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Re: Re: It's like forecasting the weather
Then ban the taking and/or reporting of polling results during the final week of the campaign?
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Re: Re:
Nah again. There's photographic evidence of them being separate people. Nice try, though.
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Re:
No. The world goes around because back around 4.6 billion years ago it was accreted from many thousands (or millions, we don't actually know) of collisions of debris from a super-nova. Very few of those collisions hit precisely on the centre-line of mass of the two objects, and so all those collisions imparted various amounts of angular momentum to the resulting body, which over the aeons added up into a preferential spin of the earth. And because the debris cloud was orbiting the nascent sun with the angular momentum of the previous system, it already had a spin around the axis of that system providing the abundance of angular momentum aligned in the plane of the solar system. Hence most of the planets in the solar system spin in roughly the same orientation.
The movement of little green pieces of paper really had and has no involvement as they're too small to have any effect upon the angular momentum of an object the size of the Earth.
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Re:
You mean, it isn't already?
Certainly seems that way, at least within the Beltway.
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Tell me again why I should care that the horse buggy manufacturers were put out of business by a change in the market?
(Individuals' jobs aside, that is. Thankfully, individual sales people can be taught to sell other things, or do something actually productive with their time.)
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Re: Re: Re:
No you could not. That would be victim blaming.
On the post: DC Police Union Sues To Block The Release Of Names Of Officers Involved In Shootings
what's the phrase?
... If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear?
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Why propose a conspiracy when incompetence* is a simpler answer?
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