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recent bookmarks from jmThe New Yorker: Another Warning Letter from A.I. Researchers and Executives2023-06-15T08:45:31+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/another-warning-letter-from-ai-researchers-and-executives
jmWe are writing this letter because that somehow feels like the best use of our time and talents and because creating a regulatory agency and slowing the development of A.I. sounds boooooring. [...]
While we continue down a capitalist path of throwing endless resources at the development of these humanlike systems at breakneck speeds, basically guaranteeing our own demise, we are also taking a moment to write, sign, and publish this very important letter that will hopefully absolve us of any responsibility for our own actions, while simultaneously allowing us to say, “It’s the government’s fault,” “I told you so,” and “¯\_(ツ)_/¯.”
]]>ai future new-yorker funny satire open-lettershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fa29dd56bcce/The Language of the Trump Administration Is the Language of Domestic Violence | The New Yorker2018-06-13T22:12:00+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-language-of-the-trump-administration-is-the-language-of-domestic-violence
jmGaslighting, it needs not be said, is Trump’s preferred mode of communication, and it is encoded in the family-separation policy itself: once their parents have been taken into custody, the children are reclassified as “unaccompanied minors,” their parents effectively disappeared. On Friday, NPR reported on three Guatemalan mothers who were on trial in Alpine, Texas, after D.H.S. flew their children—ages eight, eight, and nine—more than two thousand miles away, to a shelter in Manhattan. “There is no mention in the Border Patrol narrative,” an immigration lawyer told NPR, “that these women had children with them when they entered the United States.” Can you prove this child is yours? Do you even have children? Well, then, where are they?
]]>children donald-trump new-yorker dhs asylum-seekershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e71a2d0f346d/I Am the One Woman Who Has It All | The New Yorker2018-05-02T15:13:08+00:00
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-am-the-one-woman-who-has-it-all
jm
I have two kids and the unspoken pressure to act like they don’t exist when I’m on a conference call.
I have no problem lying about “being in a meeting” when I’m with my kids and no problem lying to my kids about “needing to work” when I’m on Facebook.
]]>parenting funny new-yorker women life work work-life-balance kidshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5dfbc8805fb1/Richard Stallman’s GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty2015-03-22T11:16:32+00:00
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-gnu-manifesto-turns-thirty
jmrms gnu fsf culture history new-yorker profileshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0c011d0e08df/Ryan Lizza: Why Won’t Obama Rein in the N.S.A.? : The New Yorker2013-12-09T15:17:04+00:00
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/12/16/131216fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all
jmThe history of the intelligence community, though, reveals a willingness to violate the spirit and the letter of the law, even with oversight. What’s more, the benefits of the domestic-surveillance programs remain unclear. Wyden contends that the N.S.A. could find other ways to get the information it says it needs. Even Olsen, when pressed, suggested that the N.S.A. could make do without the bulk-collection program. “In some cases, it’s a bit of an insurance policy,” he told me. “It’s a way to do what we otherwise could do, but do it a little bit more quickly.”
In recent years, Americans have become accustomed to the idea of advertisers gathering wide swaths of information about their private transactions. The N.S.A.’s collecting of data looks a lot like what Facebook does, but it is fundamentally different. It inverts the crucial legal principle of probable cause: the government may not seize or inspect private property or information without evidence of a crime. The N.S.A. contends that it needs haystacks in order to find the terrorist needle. Its definition of a haystack is expanding; there are indications that, under the auspices of the “business records” provision of the Patriot Act, the intelligence community is now trying to assemble databases of financial transactions and cell-phone location information. Feinstein maintains that data collection is not surveillance. But it is no longer clear if there is a distinction.
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