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- Comment on Astronauts tight-lipped about reason for hospital visit after 235 days in space 1 week ago:
Boeing’s incompetence may have hurt our astronauts, we are not good
- Comment on Louisiana schools use Artificial Intelligence to help young children learn to read 2 weeks ago:
Do you think the department of education writes the textbooks, standardized tests (SAT, ACT, etc.), grading and student management software, learning management systems (Google Classroom, Canvas), or manufactures its own classroom tech (Chromebooks, tablets)?
Each one of those has a bunch of particular nuances, but in general - yeah, I think they could and should in a lot of those cases
The education system is full of for-profit businesses that can jack up the prices, and they do.
Yeah, it’s a big problem with a lot of little parts to be tackled
The DOE simply doesn’t have the resources to create these things themselves
Then government should give them the resources (actually, I think a whole separate agency that develops open source software for any government agency or anyone else who wants to use them should be established, but that’s kind of besides the point).
and would cost them far more if they tried
I don’t think that’s true, and even if it were I think we should be willing to pay premium to make sure essential systems that support the public good are being administered in democratic ways (e.g. by public agencies that are required to give public reports to elected lawmakers and be subject to citizens’ FOIA requests).
the business model has existed forever
A lot of stupid ideas hang on for a really long time. Like, we still have monarchies in the 21st century world.
Personally, I’m more concerned with the use of Google products in schools. A company that’s sole business is harvesting user data and selling it to advertisers should have no place in schools or children’s products. But they’ve embedded themselves into everything so people just accept it at the cost of privacy
I 100% agree this is a significant problem too, I just haven’t come across any good articles about it recently
- Comment on Louisiana schools use Artificial Intelligence to help young children learn to read 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, they’re a captive audience, and moreover they are legally incompetent to consent to a contracted business relationship like this
If this was a department of education AI or even some kind of transparently administered non-profit organization I’d be fine with this, but the fact that this is being developed for some for profit company that can just jack their rates and cut off public schools whenever they want to is bullshit. Like, I’m not opposed to the technology of LLMs at all, I think they’re actually pretty neat, but our social and economic systems have a lot of exploitative trash in them that can end up making cool technologies forces for evil.
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- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
An American security contractor and a Chinese embassy employee are at a bar. The American says, “I gotta say, your propaganda is impressive. You sure know how to keep your people in line.”
“Oh, you’re too gracious,” the embassy worker says. “And besides, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda.”
The contractor chokes on his drink and gives his friend a bewildered look.
“What are you talking about? There’s no propaganda in America.”
- Privacy advocates demo Babel Street's "Locate X" software, which can track people at abortion clinics without a warrant and has been bought by multiple law enforcement agencieswww.404media.co ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 19 comments
- Comment on Learn to play piano like a pro in 30 days! 1 month ago:
Ah you are totally right and thank you for the correction, I got taught at a young age by a very nice but very overworked public school music teacher that there were just eight notes and not to worry about anything more complicated than that and my brain always really wants to default back to that
- Comment on Learn to play piano like a pro in 30 days! 1 month ago:
I don’t know for sure, but the Jaws theme is definitely a half-step interval, so the spacing of the keys in the meme is right at least
Random trivia I learned from a music theory YouTuber, the bass line to Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name kind of does the same thing, except instead of going back and forth a single half step it does nine (aka, an eight note octave plus one note)
- Bulletproofing America’s Classrooms - Ballistic armor companies are marketing protective products designed for the military to parents and schoolswww.nytimes.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 31 comments
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- The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age - A previously unreported project is intended to improve how facial recognition algorithms track children over timewww.technologyreview.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says the future of AI might mean friendship and marriage with chatbots 2 months ago:
“To cancel your subscription, please send a signed and notarized Original Petition for Divorce that has been filed with the Family Division of the District Court of the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station where we are incorporated.”
- ‘A battle of experts’: Karen Read case spotlights murky realities of digital forensicswww.bostonglobe.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Everyone Knew About the A-Team: How did the Alexander brothers become real-estate elites while allegedly raping or assaulting more than a dozen women?www.curbed.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 2 comments
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- After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accountswww.dailydot.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 112 comments
- Comment on USA'ers of this instance do you think a two woman ticket would give Democrats the white house again? 3 months ago:
Verily
- Comment on German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors 5 months ago:
“It feels a bit off-balance,” said Rogowski, who went on to point out that children already have many other damaging freedoms online where they are more exposed to danger and not protected.
So, there’s a chance something could be getting lost in translation and I don’t know the context here, but just taking this article’s description at face value,
[Paraphrasing], “Kids can voluntarily be exposed to explicit content on the internet, so why do we need guardians around when I act creepy towards them (it’s my job, no really)” seems like both a tellingly weird rant trigger for this guy and first line of argument in defense of it
- Many universities calling in police today also celebrate campus protests of the pastwww.motherjones.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 29 comments
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- Comment on Tankies hate this one simple trick 7 months ago:
I honestly kind of wonder if these Biden super fans are a reverse psychology operation. Like, I log on to Lemmy thinking “Eh, Biden’s not great but I do have to vote for him,” read a bunch of dumbass posts like this one and walk away thinking “I want nothing more in this world than to see neoliberal moderates crash and burn in the most humiliating fashion imaginable.”
- Comment on if anyone has answers pls reach out 7 months ago:
Credible Defense was a page where people could talk about the militaries of different countries, noncredible was the circle jerk/shitpost/meme page offshoot they made for it, which ended up becoming a bigger deal than the original page.
But yeah, you’re missing out on some great Ukrainian memes, but also a lot of unironic stanning for weapons manufacturers and intelligence agencies, so it’s a real mixed bag. Like, they’re super pro-queer but I kinda think that’s only because Putin is a homophobic transphobic piece of shit and if the situation were reversed I’m not sure how they’d be.
- Comment on if anyone has answers pls reach out 7 months ago:
This is certainly a phenomenon that is exclusive to Lemmy. No other social media networks have this issue.
/s
- Comment on if anyone has answers pls reach out 7 months ago:
For whatever one random lemming’s opinion is worth, I think your blanket statement is right but I think OP is actually one of those 5%ers
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- Comment on An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. 8 months ago:
The devices should be returned to inmates immediately, prison administrators should then slap themselves in the face one time for implementing them poorly to begin with, slap themselves in the face several times for overreacting to a viral story without having any reason to believe there was an active or imminent problem with any of their inmates, and deliver a tooth-loosening punch to their own faces for thinking they could punish these inmates by taking away their education to cover their screw up.
After that, hire a real IT person who knows what they’re doing by paying them decently allowing remote work and not drug testing, and then listen to them.
- Comment on An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. 8 months ago:
Not victimizing all of the student inmates because the prison invested in a poorly designed system that could potentially be exploited when none of the students have attempted that exploit or were likely even aware of it
- Comment on An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. 8 months ago:
Every prisoner who knew about that password
Meanwhile, back in reality
Wright confirmed no one incarcerated in Washington prisons had attempted to unlock their devices but said the decision was “made out of an abundance of caution.”
- Comment on An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. 8 months ago:
They were taken for reasons that inmates had nothing to do with, they have not been replaced, and it’s unclear when they’ll be returned. Inmates who are enrolled in college courses are having to handwrite papers that are due soon.
- An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices.www.opencampusmedia.org ↗Submitted 8 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 42 comments
