Mike Masnick ✅I know that lots of folks here don't like Bluesky (and I understand most of the reasons why), But now that it's open, I tried to explain the reasons why I am excited about it and hope it succeeds. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/06/bluesky-opens-up/
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ProPublicaSecrecy Shields Powerful Adults in Our Juvenile Justice Systems. #Kids Showed Me What’s Really Happening.
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The three years I spent working on “The Kids of Rutherford County” #podcast taught me one thing: Tennessee’s punitive policies aren’t leaving #children in the legal system better off.
#Serial #KidsOfRutherfordCounty #Podcasts #CriminalJustice #Tennessee #Courts #Teens #CivilRights #News
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Greg Wilson"Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights." - Byrne Hobart
The MarkupNEW report confirms that crime prediction software can’t deliver on its claim to fame: predicting crime.
https://themarkup.org/prediction-bias/2023/10/02/predictive-policing-software-terrible-at-predicting-crimes
https://themarkup.org/prediction-bias/2023/10/02/predictive-policing-software-terrible-at-predicting-crimes
Skeptical Science"Someone is wrong on the Internet" but hey-- life is short and there's an awful lot of wrong.
How do we prioritize where to target our flying fingers?
In our camp we're chronically short of time and struggle with this. Here's a ray of hope.
Ars Technica's John Timmer offers a quick and easy method for assessing "is this person worth my time of day (or night)?"
Timmer employs George Will's pernicious climate commentary as a case example of rating.
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2023/09/our-new-ladapo-scale-rates-misinformation-merchants/
Jeremy BassisA civil war is brewing in the climate and cryosphere community. There is a group of scientists, engineers (and funders) that are really starting to push forward on geoengineering approaches to mitigate the impacts of climate change. 1/
Dan GillmorDo read Margaret Sullivan's latest -- and, sadly, almost certainly futile -- on-point commentary on how Big Journalism is failing to help save democracy, and what journalists could (but almost certainly won't) do to repair their endless damage. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/trump-biden-mainstream-politics-news-coverage
I'm disappointed that she's still posting on the deadbird site, because staying there is one of the ways Big Journalism is helping democracy's enemies.
Steve SilbermanAny pundit working on another "centrist" think-piece about "Biden's cognitive decline" should be strapped into a chair and forced to watch this on an endless loop with eyelids pried open "Clockwork Orange" style. https://x.com/Acyn/status/1702866508693618997?s=20
Carl T. BergstromDied *with* neuralink, not *from* neuralink.