Archive.today version - but it's also just copy pasted quotes and the YouTube link from book promoter's media release posing as journalism. Please don't give the Kimmel video or this article clicks.
Fuck Jimmy Kimmel too for platforming and enabling amoral grifters.
The Rolling Stone should also reconsider posting PR media releases as articles. I'm sure the delta on the media release vs. final version would be... minimal. They're amoral grifters just as much as Trump, Hutchinson and Kimmel for the same enabler reasons.
But given how toxic the Kimmel work-environment is, it's not surprising Kimmel is buddying up to a piece of shit. Scum collects on the surface like that.
Ain't no staffers got shit on a handful of people with vuvuzela following the representative around whenever they're in public. Rotate the shifts, 1 hour each, and you only need 24 people daily for permanent vuvuzela brrrrrrr heralding their elected official of choice.
I would also enjoy watching a legion of mimes mockingly reacting to representatives in interviews, if the vuvuzela is too 'public nuisance'.
Or both. Both would be great. Public shaming could be a very creative and cathartic outlet.
More than a little systemic racism strengthens the cycle of abuse, even if individual protective orders can be easily justified or the person signing off on one has only the best intentions. Otherwise, I totally agree.
Clown fish start life as males, and become female in adulthood. Gobies can switch back and forth between male and female. So far, we know of maybe 500 species of fish that can change sex.
I understand people are not fish, but I'm not sure we should be so quick to declare something about people "can't be changed" with enough time, knowledge and science. Sex and gender are both complicated systems with lots of opportunity for unexpected variations affecting seemingly unrelated parts of a person.
It's even possible for your body to have more than one set of chromosomes, it's called Chromosomal Mosaicism and is detected in around 1-2% of pregnancies. Not all of those pregnancies make it full term, and not all mosaics are retained by the foetus, but in a world of billions of people it still ends up being a lot of people who are sexually diverse.
Biology is not simple. Do not underestimate the weird things your body can randomly surprise you with.
One of the things that gets me about this is how long we've been using the familiar arch gravestone shape, in so many cultures, for nearly 5000 years since....
Is this a normal way for a cat to sleep? He is a rescue and I’m pretty sure his hips were injured at some point, so I always thought that this was related. But we’ve just gotten a kitten who started doing it too.
One of the big problems with how organisations often work, especially private businesses, is the extremely casual attitude to product testing and risk assessment. It's only after they spend shitloads on lawyers and public relations that they are suddenly able to prioritise creating jobs dedicated explicitly to preventing the damage they cause with that attitude.
But because law-making is slow, weighed down by flawed human power structures combined with legitimately necessary procedures, the only thing businesses need to do is to outpace the speed of law change to avoid being punished. Outpacing the law has been easy enough to do at the best of times, but with half-assed exploitative software development in a rapidly progressing robotics and 'AI Boom' environment, it will only get easier and hurt more people.
And then the executives who allowed their shoddy products to hurt people will just change employers, likely for a pay raise or just selling the business outright. The only consequences for their reckless management personally are a few late nights in a bad mood. All because limited liability meant they might as well have just been an innocent bystander.
Meanwhile the victims - if they survive, are left in lifelong pain and misery, because courts ruled that the law doesn't cover their novel situation. Not to mention the damage to their families and communities.
Globally, we need to start holding individual organisation decision-makers to personal account for the damage their decisions cause. Both financial and prison-time, for both environmental and human damage. I mean like "Board of Directors and all Chief Officers of Cruise on trial for negligent homicide" levels of responsibility. It's the only way to prevent this kind of unnecessary suffering.
tl;dr 1. Risk of personal loss is the only way people in power will prioritise building safer products.
2. We need the law to catch up faster to a world where humans can offload more life-changing decisions to computers.
3. Law-makers should start assuming we live on the Star Trek holodeck in a Q episode instead of the Unix epoch, if they are going to catch up on their huge backlog.
4. People need to start assuming their code is imprecise and dangerous and build in graceful failures. Yes, it will be expensive in a time-sensitive environment, important things often are.
'Less shit than the average human at it' is a really low bar to set for modern computers, even if Tesla fails at that poor standard and Cruise is currently top of the game. We still need much higher bars when we're talking about entirely automated systems which are controlling speedy large chunks of metal, or even other smaller-scale-impact-and-damage systems. Systems which can't just hop out, ask if the victims are OK, render appropriate first aid, accurately inform emergency services, etc.
The more automation, the higher the standards should be, which means we need to set legal requirements that at least try to scale with he development of technology.
I wasn't suggesting stopping the development of automated vehicles because it's impossible to have 0 damage. I was advocating having high standards for software/hardware development and real consequences for decision-makers trying to find shortcuts.
Progress and standards are not mutually exclusive.
This is the third attempt they’ve made to work with that guy that actually got routed to me because their salespeople don’t do their due diligence. Shocking....
Former White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson Says Trump Threw His Food 'Once or Twice a Week' (www.rollingstone.com)
“You Can Kiss My Ass:” Pretty Much Everyone Hates Matt Gaetz Now (newrepublic.com)
The far-right representative has plunged the House into chaos—and turned his own party against him.
Australian Aboriginal child separation at ‘devastating rates’: Commissioner (www.aljazeera.com)
UN Indigenous experts are visiting Australia while a new report warns of the risk of a new stolen generation.
Rishi Sunak wades into debate over trans people, declaring no one can change sex (inews.co.uk)
All the news on his speech seems to be about HS2 but I think that this is important too.
October special : Stele of the Serpent King "Djet" . One of the oldest known tomb stelae (sort of a gravestone). Limestone, c. 2820 BCE, Abydos, Egypt 🎃🪦🐍 (commons.m.wikimedia.org)
One of the things that gets me about this is how long we've been using the familiar arch gravestone shape, in so many cultures, for nearly 5000 years since....
Does your cat sit like this?? (sh.itjust.works)
Is this a normal way for a cat to sleep? He is a rescue and I’m pretty sure his hips were injured at some point, so I always thought that this was related. But we’ve just gotten a kitten who started doing it too.
Driverless Cruise car runs over woman hit by another driver (www.theregister.com)
Victim in critical condition
Human knocks down woman in hit-and-run. Then driverless Cruise car parks on top of her, Victim in critical condition (www.theregister.com)
From little things, big things grow (lemmy.ml)
once again, reddit emailing an address they believe is owned by Andrew Tate (radiation.party)
This is the third attempt they’ve made to work with that guy that actually got routed to me because their salespeople don’t do their due diligence. Shocking....