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The UW researchers tested three open-source, large language models (LLMs) and found they favored resumes from white-associated names 85% of the time, and female-associated names 11% of the time. Over the 3 million job, race and gender combinations tested, Black men fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.

Why do machines have such an outsized bias for picking white male job candidates? The answer is a digital take on the old adage “you are what you eat.”

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Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism.

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The poll offers a rare look at the priorities of Black women voters, a population that is one of the most dedicated voting blocs and plays a pivotal role in community voter mobilization.

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Organizing principles range from simple (product line -> product category -> product taxonomy) to complex (a complete business vocabulary that explains the data in the graph). Think of an organizing principle as a conceptual map or metadata layer overlaying the data and relationships in the graph.

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Nessel made her remarks about Trump and Harris at an elections-related journalism training event hosted by the National Press Foundation. A reporter asked the attorney general about one of her biggest concerns with 100 days to go before the November 5 election. Nessel noted Trump has indicated that he won’t accept the results of the upcoming election.

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“Christians, get out and vote! Just this time – you won’t have to do it any more,” the Republican former president said on Friday night at a rally hosted in West Palm Beach, Florida, by the far-right advocacy group Turning Point Action.

“You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians.”

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Experts on authoritarianism warn the public to take Trump seriously when he speaks in that manner.

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She is consistent.

I just donated $47 to Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign. If you can, I think [you should too].(https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-gs-dd-kdhsearch-july2024?refcode=om2024_ads_gs_240721_kdhexmdonate_dd_us_all_actblue&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAApjbCfdRIdipfR275WOM1sgGkHfhv&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7O26pb-5hwMVoA6tBh3_UQr0EAAYASAAEgLsmvD_BwE)

Like so many Democrats in the U.S., I’ve been refreshing every news site… — crank.report

Yes. And the old media is data that can be processed, along with associated behavioral data, to be sythetic culture.

Ugliness, transgressiveness and shock all represent an incoherent, grasping attempt to keep the world out of your demimonde – not just normies and squares, but also and especially enthusiastic marketers who want to figure out how to sell stuff to you, and use you to sell stuff to normies and squares.

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I have a link blog hosted on micro.blog and a longer form website hosted on wtite.as. I’d like to integrate the two, both in terms of design and presentation. Not sure how, though. I welcome any thoughts.

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CrowdStrike doesn’t quite fit the definition of a classic monopoly, but its impact, as shown by the widespread system failure, suggests otherwise. It isn’t the only service that helps guide the world in an invisible fashion. We need to rethink not only how we regulate but also what we regulate.

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The question of Ms. Harris’s fate could polarize the party along racial lines. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other Black leaders have strongly supported Mr. Biden staying in the race but simultaneously have warned the party not to try to displace Ms. Harris if the president were to drop out.

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“The suggestion that any candidate who won their primary should simply step aside because victory appears difficult at the moment is disrespectful to the voters, unjust and undemocratic,” the women wrote. 

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Together the groups underscore a growing frustration among Black Democrats over the mounting calls from other, predominantly white, wings of the party for Mr. Biden to step aside. And they reflect a concern that, should the president be shoved aside, Ms. Harris might be passed over, too.

“We don’t have to go and find a savior or great hope elsewhere,” the letter from the PAC states. “We already have it in our vice president.”

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Although each country’s violence has differing local causes, there are clear patterns that echo across countries. American political violence has much in common with that taking place in Germany and India, as well as in France’s most recent election. In all these states, a significant portion of the attacks are largely the product of radicalized partisans, often egged on by parties. Containing it requires containing these parties’ politicians.

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The new order more than halves the per-minute rate caps for all prison and jail phone calls across the country. It also establishes interim per-minute rate caps for video calls, marking the first time the FCC has set rules for prison communication beyond phone calls.

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Isn’t winning literally her job description?