When do you think violence is justified? (kbin.social)
Self defense? Only on the battlefield? Only to achieve a ‘noble’ end?
I picked up Peter Watts’ Blindsight a few weeks ago not realizing that it was ‘hard’ sci-fi. (kbin.social)
Whew! What a ride. Will definitely need to re-read to absorb everything. Consciousness, algorithms, game theory, “like us” reasoning, hierarchy/control, disability—lots of stuff going on.
TIL that over 60% of jurisdictions in the US use algorithmic pretrial assessment tools to help determine who should be jailed before their court date and who should not. (kbin.social)
Why YSK: In many places it can take years for a case to come to trial. Judges have to make a decision in such cases to determine whether an accused person should be jailed in the interim. In recent years many jurisdictions have adopted algorithmic tools that essentially create a “risk profile” which assigns a value....
Peruvian Women Once Wore Burka-Like Attire as Cloaks of Rebellion (www.ancient-origins.net)
“In an era where the term “burka” evokes images of oppressive regimes, notably Afghanistan's coercive imposition on women, it may come as a surprise that the tapada limeña (meaning “the covered one from Lima”) was used as a cloak of female resistance to authority by the women of Lima for over three hundred years…....
Why do I have to re-map my network drive so often at work? (kbin.social)
It’s constantly becoming unmapped (sometimes randomly in the middle of the day). File explorer pages close out by themselves somewhat frequently too. Just curious what might be going on in IT (they’re the ones who showed me how to re-map).
In A Field All His Own: The Life and Career of James C. Scott - Full Film (youtu.be)
