Here in the never ending search of knowledge and perspective. #Landlord by trade. We're not all evil, but I've never shied away from that debate.
More than a passing interest in the law and how it works, #1stAmmendment issues, and equality... usually never in that order. Also partner to a UCC Reverend. #ONA. She's my better half and it isn't even close but I'm trying. We also have 4 #cats. Yeah, I'm all over the place.
I listen and read a lot more then I post.
“Children who do survive this war will not only bear the visible wounds of traumatic injuries, but the invisible ones too: Those of repeated displacements, constant fear and witnessing family members literally dismembered before their eyes. These psychological injuries have led children as young as five to tell us that they would prefer to die."
MSF’s Secretary General Christopher Lockyear
There’s an ugly question hovering over that previous post: What if the men •are• intrinsically better? What if discrimination is correct?? What if the AI, with its Perfect Machine Logic, is bypassing all the DEI woke whatever to find The Actual Truth??!?
Um, yeah…no.
A delightful tidbit from the article: a researcher studying a hiring AI “received a high rating in the interview, despite speaking nonsense German when she was supposed to be speaking English.”
These systems are garbage.
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Guess what? Their software succeeded!…at identifying photos taken by Macalester’s admissions dept.
It turns out that all the publicity photos, massaged and prepped for recruiting material, had more vivid colors than the photos they took. And they’d mostly used publicity photos for the “happy” rooms and their own photos for the “sad” rooms (which generally aren’t in publicity materials).
They’d encoded a bias in their dataset, and machine learning dutifully picked up the pattern.
Oops.
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RIP the man who was the absolute incarnation of XKCD's "one random dude holding up the entire internet". You may never have heard of David Mills, but your entire goddamn world depends on what he did.
Every time I hear someone go on about "border security" I'm going to post this video of me pushing open a "gate" cut by cartels in the border fence; a fence that cost billions of dollars and is easily defeated by cheap cordless cutting tools.
There are two ways to have a secure border: place groups of soldiers in fortified bunkers every 100' along the *entire length of the fence* 24/7 (no, don't do this), or by helping to stabilize the economic and security situations in the countries people are arriving from while also having a humane and easy to navigate immigration policy.
Many of the people coming here in hopes of asylum are arriving from countries with a history of U.S. support for dictators (e.g. Honduras, Nicaragua) or as direct or indirect climate refugees. Given that the U.S. is the second largest greenhouse gas emitter (and, I believe, the largest per capita), we legitimately owe these people safe harbor.
#border #immigration #BorderWall #BorderSecurity #SeekingAsylumIsNotACrime
Here's the thing about this opinion: Defendants usually lose motions to dismiss because hurdles are so high, but this decision was particularly biting.
I think it's safe to say at this point that Trump knows (or is reasonably sure) he will be convicted of these charges in D.C.
The tone of this decision is completely professional but the message is clear: Nope. Sorry. You get no special consideration as a former president, thereby torpedoing what he thinks is his strongest defense.
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Here is Judge Chutkan's order denying Trump's motion to dismiss based on claims of immunity: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.171.0.pdf
A motion to dismiss is a pretrial motion that says "even if everything the prosecution says is true, there is no case and nothing to put before the jury because I win as a matter of law."
These are always uphill battles.
Here, Trump put forward a novel theory about presidential immunity.
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My camera shoots fascists
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