Fix this!

Every safety rule is written in blood. A 16-year-old is not old enough to evaluate whether a prospective employer truly understands that concept, and accept the risks if not.

It does not make you a bad person to correctly interpret what someone means.

When your racist uncle complains about “thugs”, it doesn’t make you a bad person to infer that he means black people.

When you see what you know to be a very old brand, it doesn’t make you a bad person to infer that “doctor”, to the brand-makers, certainly meant “male doctor”.

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Found a neat quote from the judges in the Sony v Connectix case:

"For this reason, some economic loss by Sony as a result of this competition does not compel a finding of no fair use. Sony understandably seeks control over the market for devices that play games Sony produces or licenses. The copyright law, however, does not confer such a monopoly."

Now, it’s worth noting that Connectix actually produced their own BIOS, so this is not quite the same as the common emulators of today.

But still: The idea that copyright does not confer a monopoly on hardware to play your games would be a very spicy take from a court in 2024.

Not a new problem:

Julia is famous among psychologists because she was able to implant false memories into a group of subjects and convince 70 percent of them that they were guilty of a crime they did not commit, and she did so by using the sort of sloppy interrogation techniques that some police departments have been truly been guilty of using in the past.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2020/05/19/yanss-179-the-memory-illusion/

Killing brown people. Incredibly skilled at it.

Yeah, that was my point.

Because so much of a (typical) mobile app’s behavior is delegated to first-party APIs, having a huge range of device models in the field doesn’t cause as much of a splintering problem as it would for software that defines more of its own behavior internally, like games tend to do.

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“There’s just no record of her being there or not being there,” reporter Peter Doocy said. “To our knowledge, there’s no photo of her in the McDonald’s apron, which now there is a photo of Donald Trump in the McDonald’s apron.”

Truth is a constuct.

I worry that climate defeatism has become a religion, and it will be difficult to separate it from policy discussion going forward.