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Meghan
@meggz.bsky.social
Data Goblin, she/they. my cat, my art, police misconduct
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if they had just sold generative AI as “a conversational search engine that also makes custom clip art” we could have had an actual productive conversation in society about how valuable that is vs how much it costs in money and natural resources

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ACesqueer.bsky.social

Even silent protest is being banned at Harvard. This is antithetical to the mission of a university.

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Kkashana.bsky.social

Amazing who gets to be a 31 year old who should have known better because they’ve been an adult since they were ten and who gets to be a 31 year old innocent baby who still takes naps.

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MGmelissagiragrant.com

This one goes out to all the journalists who would never get into a sexual relationship with a major political figure they were covering, but whose sexuality and/or race and/or gender identity alone got them pigeonholed or pegged as “biased” and so never got such assignments let alone whole jobs

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Mmeggz.bsky.social

I think he was telling the truth. He was clearly born with a pompadour, and we all know that only blood descendants of the Presley lineage can have pompadours.

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Mmeggz.bsky.social

The truck is also there in the Google Street View for that intersection, so there's a decent chance this person has done it on more that one day.

a different view of the same truck parked illegally on a pedestrian island at the intersection of Wyalusing Avenue and 58th St in West Philadelphia
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Mmeggz.bsky.social

Not necessarily. Even "just" using a model that selects applications that resemble previous successful applications could be biased if the old application process was biased. See: www.reuters.com/article/worl... The fact that a computer uses an algorithm doesn't mean the algorithm is fair.

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SPshablopligh.bsky.social

Who Is making news tracked all reports of sex crimes against kids for over a year. Republicans and church leaders are disproportionately represented, relative to general population. Is it really a bias in arrests and media reporting? www.whoismakingnews.com#who-are-the-...

Who's Making News for Sex Crimes Involving Children. This research project aggregates and analyzes news reports published about sexual assaults on children in the United States, and is designed to be fully verifiable. You can check the data by downloading the full database - just click the “Source Data” tab.

Here is the data summary from the 10885 cases in the database. The cases in the database run from February 10, 2023 through May 23, 2024 .

RELIGIOUS EMPLOYMENT: 846 TRANSGENDER: 5 DRAG QUEEN: 1
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BNbrendannyhan.bsky.social

"up to 1/3 of Americans believe accusations of satanic cult abuse, government sex trafficking, and an 'agenda' to 'groom' children into gay or trans lifestyles" - correlated w/favorable views of Trump/Putin, acceptance of political violence, dark triad personality academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

The New Satanic Panic
The New Satanic Panic

A “Satanic Panic” swept through several countries in the 1980s. In that panic—consisting of unevidenced accusations of a conspiracy to abuse children—peopl

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SBspencerbeswick.bsky.social

University admins who make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year calling workers who make 20 bucks an hour greedy because they need higher pay to survive is really something.

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Meghan
@meggz.bsky.social
Data Goblin, she/they. my cat, my art, police misconduct
64 followers182 following88 posts