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[DaGaffer]

Bought a book based on a @Scouse recommendation, I feel dirty.


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Terrific book.

 

[Scouse]

Bought a book based on a @Scouse recommendation, I feel dirty.

You have to let us know how it made you feel

 

[Billargh]

You have to let us know how it made you feel

Full disclosure then, I'm a pretty slow reader and I've not long started Neuromancer, so you might be waiting a little while

 

[Scouse]

Get outside more kiddies:

https://archive.is/XGNeo

 

[BloodOmen]

Yes, because this is going to end well

Artificial Intelligence used to design brand new viruses

Scientists made 16 successful viruses that had their genetic code designed by artificial intelligence.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[BloodOmen]

View: https://youtu.be/0_9CgZZry5c

 

[Raven]

Twitch faces backlash over Amazon using content to train AI

Users of the popular streaming platform criticised allowing Amazon to use their data by dafault.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dangerous times. Avoid avoid avoid. I have deleted everything, got myself down to just YouTube, which is the last addiction to kick, and I am doing well with that, I hardly bother now, except a few informative channels.

 

[Zarjazz]

Twitch faces backlash over Amazon using content to train AI

Users of the popular streaming platform criticised allowing Amazon to use their data by dafault.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dangerous times. Avoid avoid avoid. I have deleted everything, got myself down to just YouTube, which is the last addiction to kick, and I am doing well with that, I hardly bother now, except a few informative channels.

The only surprising thing about that is they made their intent public and they haven't done it already. The entire AI industry is built on stealing as much proprietary IP content as they can, and then letting the lawyers deal with the fall-out afterwards if they get caught.

 

[DaGaffer]

Twitch faces backlash over Amazon using content to train AI

Users of the popular streaming platform criticised allowing Amazon to use their data by dafault.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dangerous times. Avoid avoid avoid. I have deleted everything, got myself down to just YouTube, which is the last addiction to kick, and I am doing well with that, I hardly bother now, except a few informative channels.

It's Amazon; what did people expect?

 

[Scouse]

It's Amazon; what did people expect?

To be fair, it's everyone.

At leadt they're being a bit up front about their shithousery.

 

[Raven]

Good. Little things.

Temporary ban on sale of disposable BBQs over wildfire risk

Government issues a temporary ban on the sale of disposable barbeques as they pose a "significant risk to the public".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Embattle]

Good. Little things.

Temporary ban on sale of disposable BBQs over wildfire risk

Government issues a temporary ban on the sale of disposable barbeques as they pose a "significant risk to the public".

www.bbc.co.uk

Should have been permanently banned years ago.

 

[Scouse]

Oof:

Jason Arday found dead after resigning from Cambridge over plagiarism claims

Academic was pronounced dead at his home in south London after police called to address after 3pm on Friday

www.theguardian.com

 

[Embattle]

Oof:

Jason Arday found dead after resigning from Cambridge over plagiarism claims

Academic was pronounced dead at his home in south London after police called to address after 3pm on Friday

www.theguardian.com

Oof indeed.

 

[Scouse]

To be honest - the press coverage was brutal. His face all over it.

I know he was a cunt but I'm not actually that surprised. He may have been the poster boy - but people pushing DEI at all costs should have been fronting for this, rather than him.

 

[Raven]

Only 1% of professors are black, with a population that is 4.2% black, something isn't quite right there. You don't fix it by forcing square pegs into round holes. Fix the cause of that disparity. Social and cultural issues are the cause, if young black kids (particularly boys) are mostly ignored and left to the gangs, then they aren't going to be getting on the education pathways at an early age.

 

[Scouse]

Only 1% of professors are black

Only 13% of professors are from working class backgrounds.

Fuck race and sex quotas. That is just more racism and sexism.

You're right that it is social and cultural. But it's also economic. We need to provide more opportunity.

But professors largely come from family structures that are intellectually focussed. This is desireable - because their focus and behaviour, their 'gut reaction' to issues should be to think more. That trait makes them suited to the academic environment.

Dumb DEI representation policies are not only racist, but they promote the wrong sort of people to academia - that is necessarily and correctly a little bit (but not wholly) "ivory tower".

Exceptional people can, and should, make it. We need our economics to enable a wider pool to choose from. But quotas for race and representation should be nowhere near that space - as all of society benefits from the highest intellectual rigour and intense meritocracy.

When we seriously consider arguments about representation for academia all we do is dumb down the whole human endeavour.

 

[Embattle]

To be honest - the press coverage was brutal. His face all over it.

I know he was a cunt but I'm not actually that surprised. He may have been the poster boy - but people pushing DEI at all costs should have been fronting for this, rather than him.

It was excessive press coverage, the ironic thing is that the right-wing media was so ferocious about it being a DEI hire that it made me wonder if they would have made as much out of it if it was a white bloke who lied/exaggerated.

 

[DaGaffer]

It was excessive press coverage, the ironic thing is that the right-wing media was so ferocious about it being a DEI hire that it made me wonder if they would have made as much out of it if it was a white bloke who lied/exaggerated.

Of course they wouldn't. It would have been reported but probably with a completely different tone.