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Disgraced USAF aviator and geographer Chicago via Macedonia 🇲🇰
Be cool if companies stopped trying to reinvent physiognomy every few years.
‘It confirmed my flaws’: women are paying for face scans that score beauty and suggest excessive procedures
‘Looksmaxxing’ culture has led to the rise of facial analysis services – but experts warn they aren’t backed by science and can be harmful to users
theguardian.com
Why are they like this? Chicago already has one of the highest number of officers per capita in the country and as we shaved 2k from the force crime has dropped precipitously! This is political malpractice—throwing taxpayer money into bonfire
Mike Fragassi@refrag.bsky.social · 4d agoAlexi Giannoulias says: one thousand more Chicago cops, and bring back ShotSpotter www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...
Important anti fascist skill to learn is being brave enough to yell "shut the fuck up" at someone in public
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
"Now, at 90 years old, he has written a book on Marx’s magnum opus for the generations who came after the New Left rupture of 1968. The Story of Capital connects two worlds: the world of the ivory tower and the world of the street protest." newrepublic.com/article/2113...
David Harvey’s Masterclass in Marx
The Story of Capital connects the world of the academy and the world of the street protest.
newrepublic.com
destroying priceless books to feed the child porn generator
Futurism@futurism.com · 2w ago"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."
it’s bad film criticism bc she isn’t a critic, she’s an academic. i don’t blame her for it, this just isn’t her medium and there was never a chance she would ever be able to *not* obsessively pick everything apart (this is why i find academia suffocating even if it’s obviously necessary and good)
Lauren@beavisetc.bsky.social · last wk.Her arguments all boil down to “I would have made a different movie” which I find to be the least compelling flavor of film criticism
nobody who knows a work of art as well as emily wilson knows the odyssey is going to react with anything but horror at *any* filmed adaptation of that work. she has agonized over every single line of that poem. this was always going to make her completely insane
"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
trib.al
The tragedy of an individualistic rich society is that people think they can insure themselves from anything, but when collective crises happen, people will be desperately looking for public help that will have depleted because of the past hyperindividualism
The El Niño climate pattern that is strengthening in the Pacific Ocean is on track to be the largest one in at least 150 years, researchers said today at a briefing. go.nature.com/4fkayak
This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’
Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.
go.nature.com
This is an astonishing thread
Inner City Press@innercitypress.bsky.social · 2w agoOK - now hearing on SDNY's subpoenas for reporting about the non-use of the Qatar-gifted jet as Air Force One coming back from Turkey - hearing before Judge Subramanian, who also has Live Nations (and Inner City Press' FOIA case www.courtlistener.com/docket/73400... ) - will live skeet, thread below
I will gently push back on this with the example of Tito’s Yugoslavia which produced innumerable treasures (including the invention of multiple genres of music like Yugo-Mex).
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w agothere's a pretty good tweet that's something like "people think that under communism they'll be given a luxiourus stipend to make art no one likes, instead of being forcibly retrained as a dental hygienist and deployed to Bangor Maine to care for the elderly population there"
Can you believe what 2004 you would have thought if he knew we'd be referring to the Iraq War as the tragedy contrasted with the present Farce?
We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.
What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke
We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.
heatmap.news
Excuse the fuck me? They are using AI to put Black prisoners in conditions of greater torture in Canada? Does AI do anything that's not violently antiblack? @hypervisible.blacksky.app
The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 3w agoOntario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach
Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
breachmedia.ca
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.”
You're laughing? Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham are in hell being sewn together into a human centipede and you're laughing?
The dangerous air quality will last for 24 hours. When asked about the health impacts of the excessive and unnecessary display, an EPA spokesperson said, "Fireworks are awesome."
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In retrospect it sure seems like going 70 years (1931-2001) without simultaneous Republican control of all three branches was pretty load-bearing
Is there some mechanism by which he can compel hospitals to not comply with the EO? Could this actually have been addressed comprehensively in the same timeframe?
the same people demanding mamdani visit israel instead of being mayor of NYC are like "those people have outsized focus on the middle east"
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · last mo.Hakeem Jeffries downplays significance of the New York elections, saying they were "higher income" districts that had "outsized focus on issues connected to the Middle East."
