Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

RT @catvalente
The pandemic has managed to do what so many couldn’t: just completely disprove libertarianism & all its brethren

No, people will not do the right thing if left to their own devices without the government. They wont even do so much as wear a small piece of cloth over their faces.

RT @maureenjohnson
The story you need this morning. https://twitter.com/aaronreynolds/status/1275287134203777030

RT @KyrieElissa
I wrote y'all a limerick:

There once was so simple a task
As everyone wearing a mask
It would help stop the spread
Leaving way fewer dead
But somehow that's too much to ask.

RT @DuncanBSS
Dear Microsoft,

I never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever want to paste formatting.

RT @CuteAnimaIVines
Kora the caracal kitten has perfected her ear flick

RT @VladoBotsvadze
A man browsing for books in Cincinnati's cavernous old main library. The library was demolished in 1955.

RT @Rachel__Nichols
NASCAR drivers & crews join to push @BubbaWallace's
car to the front of the grid at Talladega. Richard Petty, age 82, is at the track for the first time since the COVID outbreak, to support Wallace. This sport is making it clear who it stands with, and who it does not.

RT @GamingRulesVids
During these difficult times, some games are easier than others:

RT @DeathStarPR
Maybe Emperor Palpatine could have convinced Rey to come to the Dark Side if he had just powerfully drunk a glass of water in front of her, one-handed.

RT @CuteAnimaIVines
We don’t deserve dogs😂😭

@blight @a1batross @realcaseyrollins

Not in the sense of "the AI has beliefs about white supremacy", but yes in the sense that AI systems can be used to deliberately or accidentally perpetuate racism (also sexism, ableism, etc.). The books "Weapons of Math Destruction" and "Technically Wrong" enumerate many examples.

One small example is the "racist soap dispenser", which astonishingly has been developed more than once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJjv_OeiHmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHynGQ9Vg30

There's no reason to believe that a person (or AI) *decided* to behave this way. It's much more likely that the development team and the training data were both devoid of dark skin.

RT @birdturntable
Golden Gate Heron

RT @pwnallthethings
Barr: Fire Berman
Berman: permission denied
Barr: OK fine, sudo fire Berman
President: Barr is not in the sudoers file
NYT: this incident has been logged

RT @MattOswaltVA
BREAKING: I fucking give up https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1274355082402955269