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I was wrong that there's a surprising lack of shouting about the biblical apocalypse given the circumstances. It's just channelled into other conspiracy theories and grand narratives.
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The Boom in Fireworks Conspiracy Theories https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/firework-summer-2020-conspiracy-theory-police/613450
personally I wouldn't put it in this rhetoric, but I agree with the content. Look out for what isn't being measured.
muss heute noch #laufen
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Gay rights are cool, but meaningless without gay shelter, gay food stability, gay access to healthcare.
And since anyone in the world can be queer, queer liberation is an incomplete project until every person in the world has these things.
versteht hier jemand die Relativitätstheorie? Bin soweit im Vergleich zweier Koordinatessysteme - die Lösungen soll man jetzt warscheinlich einfach wissen? wieder mal echt frustriert (spoilers zum coursera-Kurs, falls das hier der richitige Ansatz ist)
so Leute, wir versuchen das jetzt auf Deutsch. nach fast zehn Jahren im Ausland habe ich fast das Schreiben verlernt.
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This is what Millennial politics looks like https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2020/06/22/millennial-politics-black-lives-matter-values-generations/
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everyone save the most gullible tech-fetishists at this point know machine learning is fake — it's just so much gauze over statistical decision making processes. its true purpose is to absolve the people who make it from the decisions they sign off on: neural nets are so complex and intentionally mystified they can be used for plausible deniability even when they're obviously doing exactly what the people who designed them, fed them their biases, and supervised them intended
Luckily for my program I got 2, 16.
Now is this behavior guaranteed?
What would happen
2, 2
or
2, 16
Is functionuser.function set to a copy of the function at the time of setting, or a pointer? #python #programming
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#letsfacefakts im #Englishunterricht:
roses are red
violets are blue
in surveillance capitalism
poem reads you
and shows you ads
for flower shops
and tracks your clicks
and never stops
it cares not about
if privacy's harmed
the money is green
when people are farmed
twitter is cyan
facebook is blue
your friends are the product
and so are you
One of the problems with trans healthcare is that nobody really knows the current state of things. Psychologists and other healthcare providers don't like to publish much on what they're doing to trans people
UK #trans people: please fill out #survey http://www.thissurvey.com/ICTAWebsite
I've already been interviewed. They're nice people and they have research grants to find out what's going on here. #lgbt #nhs
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RT @Steampunk_T@twitter.com
Greenhouse by Jakub Wysocki
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Steampunk_T/status/1275435061362323456
anyone want "refer a friend" code to google foobar challenge? I have 2. It won't get you hired by google (not that you want to), but it melted my brain and tanked my work for a solid 10 days. #python #programming
we all don't have time to fact-check everything - but we can help each other out. if something appearing on my timeline is just not true, please comment.
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"reform the police"
The city of Albuquerque has been a test case for police reform since the cops murdered James Boyd in 2014. The DOJ stepped in, fired many of the officers, and has forced the APD to submit to federal oversight and adopt new accountability policies for the past six years. None of it has worked.
Valente Acosta-Bustillos was killed 3 months ago.
Max Mitnik was killed 2 weeks ago.
Clifton White has spent all month in jail for protesting.
All this time we've remained one of the worst places in the country for police shootings. Nothing has changed. I hope you'll think of ABQ when people urge you to push for reforms and half measures instead of abolition.
I believe flooding the channels with bare facts is still good for those who have not yet emotionally escalated themselves into something.
I have an untested theory that the thing to do with individuals deeply into some ideology/conspiracy theory is to first agree (and get it across emotionally) that if things really are like they say and *spins wheel* the knights templar really are out to *spins wheel* cannibalize babies via *spins wheel* installing 5G hotspots, then yes, that would be bad, their reaction would be appropriate, and we would have to do something about that.
It's counterproductive go facts-first with people who feel attacked further by anything but that one thing they want to hear - which is that you don't agree with it, also want them to die or whatever, or don't care. After establishing you are on their side in terms of values and goals, it might turn into establishing what exactly the facts of the current situation are.
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