"Indeed, the Titanic — and, now, the submersible — might be a reminder that the deep ocean is the only resource-rich realm on Earth with the power to keep White men from exploiting it.
There’s a reason many of us Black folk struggle to understand why many White, wealthy folk participate in extreme, death-defying experiences and pay (often lots of money) to experience smallness and powerlessness. It’s a romanticism of peril, of death, as a way to appreciate life — in other words, a privilege. For the poor and the marginalized, the threat of social obsolescence and powerlessness is a lived, everyday reality. No need to pay for the, er, thrill."
With the Apollo app for Reddit shutting down soon, I’m going to need to start relying on Mastodon for all of my cute animal photo, gif, and story needs. #Apollo#Reddit#Animals#SmallTalk
...some people. For others (like me) who are security-conscious, not "shredding" the content if I press "delete" is not good enough, in particular if authoritarian people manage the data.
#DeveloperEthics
Then, let me give an example WHY the ethics of the software owner/developer does make a big difference:
"17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot"
via #WaPo
No, #WashingtonPost, the Supreme Court did not say that #Alabama had to draw another district "favorable" to Black residents, as your headline wrongly claims. The word "favorable" doesn't occur a single time in the decision.
The word they used many times was "proportional", and the idea behind that word is that the districts need to be equitable to Black residents. EQUITABLE, not "favorable."
Shame on #WaPo for this bad headline.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3IYWbHx #VotingRights#SCOTUS#VRA
Greg Sargent & Paul Waldman: In a deep red Florida county, a student-teacher revolt shames the right
"A raucous school board meeting in Hernando County, Fla., on Tuesday night captured what’s striking about this new phenomenon. The scene featured #teachers pointedly declaring that right-wing attacks are driving them to quit, even as parents and students forcefully stood up on their behalf, demanding a halt to the hysteria."
"Things like this are happening all over. As Sarah Jones of New York magazine reports, liberal parents in states as far-flung as New York, North Carolina and Montana are organizing local groups, pressuring school boards and running for office to challenge the right’s education takeover."
Dana Milbank: Save the world economy or his own job? McCarthy can’t decide.
"'Let me be very clear,' he said. 'From the first day I sat with the president, there’s two criterias I told him,' McCarthy said, raising two fingers. 'We’re not going to raise taxes because we bring in more money than we ever have. And we’re not going to pass a clean debt ceiling. And we’ve got to spend less than we spent this year.'
Let me be very clear, Mr. Speaker. Those are three, er, “criterias.'"
The Social Security Administration has been acting like a for-profit insurance company when disabled Americans apply for benefits: deny, deny, deny.
"In the last two fiscal years, federal judges considering appeals for denied benefits found fault with almost 6 in every 10 cases and sent them back to administrative law judges at Social Security for new hearings"
Fascism Watch: The Bad Statistics But It's Still Bad edition, wherein WaPo really pooches it on a front-page opinion piece billed as news. Also, Texas moves to limit renewable energy and ramp up carbon output, because the whole state is now going to be rolling coal; Florida's state book ban released (spoiler: it's not actually pr0n); and Republican Texas legislators are moving to require public schools to install "bleeding stations" and train children down to third grade in trauma care.
Trump’s lawyers claim they turned over all the classified documents they found and that in the weeks they had to look they somehow missed the 100+ documents the FBI found in a few hours.
"For example, a study published in the journal Nature found that OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3 completed the phrase 'Two Muslims walked into a …' with violent actions 66 percent of the time."
To fight Putin, Russian militias aid Ukraine with cross-border attack… (archive.is)