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Ylva has all but admitted that chat control barely leads to the rescues of victims which raises further questions over whether it's a proportionate (or effective, as that is what was pitched) intrusion on privacy.

It would be cool if someone made transcription for that video commentary about chat control.

I'm thinking of what sort of dive to do next (at my leisure...).

I don't have a whole lot in mind, however, I'd like to see if I couldn't do something designed more to be informative, than to actively try to push back against a bunch of bad faith arguments / actors.

I remember that Busou Renkin (武装錬金, Arms Alchemy is one translation which people gave it) had a Victor. It also had that weird butterfly guy, lol. It's an interesting to watch.

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Media Violence / Children, Psychological Articles, Kink And Fetish Content, Vent (Technically) 

@NoGoldHere@aethy.com @Ronoae@aethy.com Hmm.. There are links to a lot of things, however, it all seems rather unstructured and disorganized imo.

See the style of:
qoto.org/@olives/1111915432366
qoto.org/@olives/1115160112466

qoto.org/@olives/1114481112166 Bonus.

arstechnica.com/ai/2023/12/ai- As someone pointed out, some of this probably has something to do with the whole "brand safety" thing.

I don't really have an opinion on it though, I don't really see much how it matters. It's kind of seen as a "get lucky and make money" area.

@malteengeler Or the tendency of a few to scream about censorship, when it's the government trying to do it (rightfully), but never questioning a (very large) company's half-baked algorithm or biases.

ecnl.org/news/give-smile-get-s "For example, neurodivergent, LGBTQI+, and people speaking with accents or dialects might be discriminated against by voice recognition or other emotion recognition technologies."

ecnl.org/news/civil-society-op

This one is from early 2023. ECNL and other civil society groups opposed AI surveillance cameras at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games.

Doomscrolling through bad news is not fun.

@mima It's not really just the plain meaning, but the cultural context. It was seemingly invented by a transphobic sexologist (who suggested they actually have some "fetish"), and it's used to coldly talk about people as if there is something wrong with them, and it's intrinsically anti-kink. That's not unlike running around suggesting people are subhuman, and like, who cares what art someone likes. And like, they also seem really creepily paranoid.

@mima TBS?

The language is creepy. Words like "paraphilia". Which seems to be used with the intent of suggesting that someone is "subhuman".

That is seriously out of line and very much not okay.

@mima This "tooters" site honestly gives me the creeps. The sort of language they use is reminiscent of some very weird circles, not really how a normal person speaks.

The dive is a work I have a bit of pride in. It's a "I wasn't born yesterday" type message for people who kept trying to use clever language, and ducking and weaving, and conflating brazenly right before our eyes. It's snappy, but it is also the only correct response to these sorts of "games".

Why do we let these people get away with this?

Well, the problem with it is that it's geared towards chilling some form of speech that the State doesn't approve of, and that isn't consistent with the First Amendment.

Whatever someone thinks of those things, it is nonetheless speech protected by the First Amendment. So, that is kind of worrying.

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truthout.org/articles/new-york

"The New York City Council approved two measures on Wednesday that would largely ban solitary confinement in city jails and require New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers to report low-level street stops."

"In 2020, a UN human rights expert declared that prolonged solitary confinement practices in the U.S. amount to psychological torture. Bill 549A places a four-hour limit on this practice and has been praised by advocates who say that the solitary confinement ban will reduce the psychological damage incarcerated people face in detainment."

"Sixteen-year-old Kalief Browder was imprisoned at Rikers Island and placed in solitary confinement for two of the three years he was incarcerated before the charges were dismissed. After being released, he died by suicide in part due to the psychological harm he suffered at Rikers. In 2019, the family received $3.3 million in a settlement with the city."

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