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high school computer science teacher interested in alternative grading. Rookie cargo e-biker, hobby seamstress, & veteran soccer player, keen to live a life marked by compassion. Views are my own.
@ai6yr @coolandnormal Women's clothing history is vast and complex. For a lot of history, women's clothing were implied fertility indicators (stuff like: chubby implies rich enough to be well fed and able to carry s child) or copying the local queen's fashions. In the 1600, the corset was a conical shape because Elizabeth 1 was flat chested. So, it's not always easy to say what causes extreme fashions
If you can't fit even the smallest stencil in, it's not a bike lane
It's only Superintelligence if it comes from the Superintelligence Lab at Meta, otherwise it's just Sparkling Eliza
After a stretch of warm weather the snow has returned! The dogs were happy. #DogsOfMastodon #IrishWolfhound #GoldenRetriever #winter #snow

Pet owners and especially folks with service dogs, do you have any suggestions for things to think about when purchasing a vehicle?

#dogs #serviceDogs

In case you're looking for Canadian right now, we're not available.

#HNOM #Olympics #GoCanadaGo

I woke up at 3am last night, and still half asleep, had a thought that I JUST HAD TO WRITE DOWN. Pretty sure I’d just won the Internet, I fell back asleep.

In the morning, I was greeted with this gem on my phone:

β€œ2 ninjas are called a pair of sneakers.”

You’re all welcome.

@dan
- "My dishwasher is on the internet!"
- "Why is on the internet?"
- "To download software updates!"
- "Why does it need software updates?"
- "To fix security vulnerabilities!"
- "Why would it have security vulnerabilities?"
- "Because it's on the internet!"
This afternoon I am watching the #quorb in our backyard inflating and deflating as they calibrate their feathers for the sudden snowfall. πŸ₯Ή

This *looks* like a pro-social use of AI, but it's not https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/ai-data-children-predict-criminals-fwclzh323

1. Sociology has a pretty good idea of what factors contribute to crime, such as poverty. This "solution" is a surveillance-based intervention into individual rather than structural harms.

2. It fails to notice that predictive risk systems themselves victimize the vulnerable; they amplify bias and create feedback loops.

3. This will necessarily treat children as pre-criminals.

#AI #surveillance #crime #sociology

The machines that will predict the criminals of the future

The Ministry of Justice will deploy machine learning to identify at-risk children for early intervention and to help prevent them falling into a life of crime

The Times