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gAlienLifeform

@ gAlienLifeform @lemmy.world

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  • I'm about to check out too

    Please don't.

    There are valid reasons to want to leave.

    I don't disagree, but the reasons to stay are more compelling. You never know when you'll get to be the right person in the right place at the right time who to help someone else avoid some suffering they don't deserve, but you've gotta be here to do that.

    If nothing else, procrastinate on it for a bit. You can always change your mind later.

    e; typo

  • Harris won't say how she voted on California measure that would reverse criminal justice reforms

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  • Nobody is obligated to turn over the results of their last physical exam either, but when a candidate for elected office refuses to do so everyone freaks out and rightly so

  • Louisiana schools use Artificial Intelligence to help young children learn to read

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  • 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

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    Kamala Harris' 'Fortnite' map bans guns, has less than 400 people playing

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  • They tried to do a themed Among Us game, but when they removed the ability of crewmates to criticize each others' votes it just made the imposters win every round

    e; That was a joke (probably should be obvious, but I'm not trying to spread disinformation out here)

  • Man accused of voting twice found not guilty of voter fraud

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  • Man accused of voting twice found not guilty of voter fraud

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  • Rob a liquor store with an unloaded gun but someone present has a heart attack? Murder.

    Rob a liquor store with an unloaded gun but the guy behind the counter pulls out a loaded one and kills your accomplise? Also murder.

    Buy some heroin for you and your partner to use, leading you both to overdose, but you survive? Believe it or not, also murder.

    e; Whether or not you think these make sense is beside the point, it's an obvious double standard when the lack of intent doesn't matter for these crimes but it gets this guy a walk

  • Louisiana schools use Artificial Intelligence to help young children learn to read

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  • 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 cool technologies can inadvertently exacerbate.

  • America's youngest voters become major election liars

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  • Or maybe just people unwilling to support Harris because of her refusal to commit to stopping Palestinian genocide who are sick of hearing they're Trump supporters

  • Harris says she strongly disagrees with criticism of people based on who they vote for after Biden's 'garbage' remark

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  • Is it too late to switch the nomination back?

  • Harris says she strongly disagrees with criticism of people based on who they vote for after Biden's 'garbage' remark

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  • Why Is This Election Even Close?

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  • Maybe the fact that every time Kamala says she wants to appoint Republicans to her cabinet and sign Republican immigration policies into law she slides in the polls a bit should tell us something

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  • I don't think America's electorate on the whole is any worse or better than any other country's, we just have an incredibly anti-democratic election system and a lot of tax code and finance law bullshit that's allowed people to get wealthy through grifting and genocide and monopolies then pass that money down to their shitty children who have nothing better to spend their time and efforts on than making sure things stay broken

  • Mel Gibson Blasted After Backing Trump With Offensive Insult About Harris In Bonkers Rant

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  • Until producers stop giving him money and actors refuse to work with him he'll continue spreading hate, the guy has been an obvious bigot and moron his entire life

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    What do you wish was true about you?

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  • TBH I don't want have to change at all, I'm just saying in the magic genie scenario I'd wish that people agreed with me

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    What do you wish was true about you?

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  • I wish I was persuasive

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    I miss when the quiet part was kept quiet

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  • I didn't realize the anti-immigrant sentiment had gotten to this level in so much of the population

    I think the causation is backwards here, a lot of low engagement voters just assume that the best policies are somewhere to the left of whatever the GOP wants and to right of whatever the Dems are pushing for, but they keep thinking that even as the Dems move to the right.

    Dems were thinking if independents saw that they'd respect the Dems willingness to compromise or whatever, but Indies saw that and just decided "Oh, I guess immigration really is a problem like the Republicans were saying all along, even the Democratic party thinks we need a border wall now."

    e; an attempt at better phrasing

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  • 41% Plurality Of Republican Voters Agree That GOP’s Anti-Trans Rhetoric Is ‘Sad And Shameful’

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  • this particular hatred

    History has repeatedly shown us they'll just move on to a new target for their bigotry because that's the only way they can come close to getting a majority of voters to back their economic plans that only serve a wealthy few. Like, trans people right now are just what gay people were for their party 10-20 years ago.

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  • Founded in 2006 as a division of the Russian media holding RBC Group (abbreviation for "RosBusinessConsulting"), but in 2010, the agency "RBC-Ukraine" left the composition of the Russian holding, and in 2015, it completely came under the control of Ukrainian media businessman Yosyp Pintus. On January 29, 2016, the Russian holding "RBC" tried to challenge the use of the "RBC" brand in court, but lost the case

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    Good to know, thank you! Relatedly, I feel like a dummy for not thinking to check Wikipedia first