Julian Assange is not a US citizen and the crimes he is accused of did not happen on US soil. The US should not be the world police. Why are we trying to prosecute him?
I just wanted to give a little recap of the Julian Assange controversy. The US is trying to prosecute him for breaking US law while outside the US and he is not a US citizen. In case people don’t know the story, that’s the most important part.
As someone who spends time programming, I of course find myself in conversations with people who aren’t as familiar with it. It doesn’t happen all the time, but these discussions can lead to people coming up with some pretty wild misconceptions about what programming is and what programmers do....
Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early...
Kids are sad and have problems, people think this is because of cellphones, so they want to take away the kid’s cellphones, but maybe kids are sad because of other problems.
In general, there’s been lots of talk and bills related to regulating social media, a year or two ago it was “ban tik tok”, now it’s regulate social media and take away kid’s cellphones. Lot’s of talk about it, lots of time on the evening news about it. Meanwhile, nobody does anything about the big problems and the evening news wont mention them.
I don’t have time to review all the research that has been done on the topic, but fortunately others have done a review of the existing studies:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9200624/ concludes “Despite the fears held around wireless technologies, we believe that at this stage there is not enough evidence supporting a causal negative relationship between MP/WD use and children and adolescent’s mental health to justify particular public health interventions.”
And this isn’t a review, but here’s one additional study:
med.stanford.edu/…/children-mobile-phone-age.html says “Stanford Medicine researchers did not find a connection between the age children acquired their first cell phone and their sleep patterns, depression symptoms or grades.”
I’m 30+ and, granted, I haven’t given my daughter a cellphone, and I think well of parents who are careful about how their children use technology.
It’s a meme. It’s not super clear, but it’s memorable.
One belief I’m trying to express with this meme is that most laws created “to protect the children” are not really about protecting children. I know that’s a hot take (/s). For example, my state has recently said “to protect the children, let’s require all adults to upload their government ID before posting on any website”, and the skeptical part of me thinks that’s not really about the kids.
I think a lot of those things are good. Limit cellphones in schools, good. Require websites to put a “content rating” in their HTML responses which would help make filtering the internet a lot easier, good. Require cellphone manufacturers to give instructions on how parents can setup filters on their children’s phones, good.
Require all adults to upload their government papers before participating in the most important speech forum of our time, bad. I think the laws created to “protect the children” aren’t really about protecting children (not exactly a hot take).
I have a challenge for you, and then a prediction:
My challenge is to look at this graph and form a world view that explains it. Certainly there’s more behind these numbers than cellphones. Suicide rates were also high around 1990, why?
My prediction is that if we take away kid’s cellphones, it will not actually help them and they will still be unhappy, and people will throw up their hands and say “what more can we do?”. Well, what more we can do is address those big problems in the first panel of my meme.
That first chart I posted made it look like suicide rates were going into exponential growth recently, but “the curve” does plateau and seem to hover around the 1990’s levels. See following chart, also, note how this chart makes things look unprecedented because they cut off the 1990s.
I think blaming cellphones, and even blaming social media to some extent, is like blaming video games in the 90’s. There’s lots of opinions, lots of “experts” who also have opinions, and not a lot of scientifically valid research to support those opinions. This is what I’m making fun of in the meme.
You say that is “very dangerous”, maybe. I’ll note that (at the time of writing) I’m the only one who has linked to anything in support of my views and conclusions. So my views are, apparently, the least “dangerous” in the thread.
This thread confuses me. Are you or GP suggesting I have a certain political leaning based on this post? I’m curious to know what you think that political leaning would be?
It would help if you could link to at least one of the thousands. What’s one you think makes a strong case? I’m not sure if you’re referring to actual studies or, maybe, confusing blog posts and “expert” opinions with actual studies.
Because you want to avoid Diablo because Diablo, maybe you could get Diablo used on console, you don’t need a Blizzard account or an internet connection and since it’s used the money wouldn’t go to Blizzard. It might be an option, depending on why you want to avoid Diablo.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world's chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities....
I think the joke is that the Jr. Developer sits there looking at the screen, a picture of a cat appears, and the Jr. Developer types “cat” on the keyboard then presses enter. Boom, AI in action!
The truth behind the joke is that many companies selling “AI” have lots of humans doing tasks like this behind the scene. “AI” is more likely to get VC money though, so it’s “AI”, I promise.
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