
06/14/2019
http://thedevilspanties.com/archives/13173
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06/14/2019
http://thedevilspanties.com/archives/13173
Fuck you always works, imnsho.
Our discourse around privacy needs to expand to address foundational questions about the role of automation: To what extent is living in a surveillance-saturated world compatible with pluralism and democracy? What are the consequences of raising a generation of children whose every action feeds into a corporate database? What does it mean to be manipulated from an early age by machine learning algorithms that adaptively learn to shape our behavior?
Among the tools it is offering, Amazon’s image recognition product is the most controversial. […] Civil rights groups have called it “perhaps the most dangerous surveillance technology ever developed”, and called for Amazon to stop selling it to government agencies, particularly police forces. City supervisors in San Francisco banned its use, saying the software is not only intrusive, but biased - it’s better at recognising white people than black and Asian people.
Amazon’s next big thing may redefine big - BBC News
Mr Vogels doesn’t feel it’s Amazon’s responsibility to make sure Rekognition is used accurately or ethically.
“That’s not my decision to make,” […] “This technology is being used for good in many places. It’s in society’s direction to actually decide which technology is applicable under which conditions.
“It’s a societal discourse and decision - and policy-making - that needs to happen to decide where you can apply technologies.”
[Vogels] likens ML and AI to steel mills. Sometimes steel is used to make incubators for babies, he says, but sometimes steel is used to make guns.
“What’s amazing about Kirby isn’t simply that he would do all of this stuff so naturally and so quickly, it’s also that he was consistently this effective on sometimes hundreds of pages in a single month.”
Sensational She-Hulk #42, page 8 by John Byrne & Glynis Wein. 1992.
“Io e Wallie”, Walter Petrone (in arte Wallie) sa quanto sto in chiusa per la lavorazione del mio prossimo libro per Feltrinelli, e ha disegnato lui il fumetto di questa settimana 💔 enjoy!
When I was an academic, I would receive “edits” on my manuscripts. Usually these took the form of paragraphs about what I should include more of (“you must integrate findings form Scholar McScholar’s monograph published in 1954 before it can be published”), what I got wrong (“this is a misreading of Adorno’s definition of ideology”), and maybe a comment or two in the margins (“The CIA, not literary theorists, ‘interrogate’).
When I started writing for trade publications, I realized that editing could be much, much, more intensive–and fun. Editors would actually make the changes to correct my summary of Adorno! They would move the last sentence of a paragraph to the first and suddenly everything made more sense! They would correct my dangling modifiers and not even shame me for creating them.
I loved–and still love– being edited heavily and often. It helps the content of my writing, but it also improves my writing per se, and allows me think about my style, voice, and use of rhetorical forms (arguments, analysis, etc.) in new ways.
Anne Trubek in “Developmental, Line, Copy-, and Proofing: What Editing Means”, in her Notes from a Small Press newsletter
The Register has contacted Appl for coment, but we’re probably unlikely to hear anything bak.
That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon • The Register
From Destroyer Duck #1, by Steve Gerber, Jack Kirby and Alfredo Alcala.