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Ari Schulman
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Democracy dies in darkness.
Democracy flourishes in light.
One overcast evening, democracy goes for a walk, dreaming of a dogeared book by a crackling fire. At home, democracy pulls the chain on a dangling bulb, collapses into a frayed chair, and pulls up Garbage Wars on Netflix.
How is Garbage Wars not a show yet? It seems like it should be a show.
Answer: It was a show + my brain now automatically fills in all knowledge gaps with the word "Garbage":
Oh my goodness, the Brits en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapheap…
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Ari Schulman
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So... are flights into LGA grounded, DC airspace closed, and this is The End? Or is there a 41-min delay at LGA like what's been happening for weeks but coded differently? Careful reporting, clear language badly needed here to avert another epistemic collapse story in the making.
The idea that this is of a kind with what's been happening throughout the shutdown but FAA staffers are coding it differently to send a message comes from here. (One can interpret this for or against The End, of course, but it seems less a sharp break.)
This sure doesn't look like D.C. airspace being "shut down entirely."
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Ari Schulman
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AOC is more right than wrong, but it's not because algorithms are made by biased humans. For example, racial disparities in criminal conviction rates make it provably mathematically impossible to eliminate disparities in sentencing algs. See @tnajournal:
thenewatlantis.com/publications/a…
Algo racism is an input, not a code, issue. Or in human terms: it's a rare case where you can mathematically prove the folly of reposing hope in software to cure entrenched social ills.

Again, read Tafari Mbadiwe's supremely insightful @tnajournal essay: thenewatlantis.com/publications/a…
Example: That blockbuster ProPublica investigation damningly found that false positive rates for the COMPAS sentencing algorithm were twice as high for black defendants as white. propublica.org/article/machin…
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Ari Schulman
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Re: lettuce: has anyone tried adding more blockchain?
I was about to apologize for what a bad joke that was.
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Norman Ornstein
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Democracy is being stabbed in the chest tomorrow by Republicans in Wisconsin, and it barely gets a mention on cable news and in major news outlets. Beyond frustrating. The @washingtonpost is right; democracy dies in darkness. And every major news outlet is contributing.
It is not just about whether there are mentions or segments. When the segments are the 3rd, 4th or 5th priorities, that signals that they are not as urgent as they should be. Nullifying elections is the mark of an autocracy. Get away with it, and it will happen again & again
And when the New York Times refers to this outrage as an attempt to “shore up strength,” it is aiding and abetting thse crimes against democracy.
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Democracy Dies in Trivia frontpagemag.com/fpm/271918/dem…
“Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the motto of the post-Trump WaPo. This pompous and self-congratulatory bit of virtue-signaling is meant to proclaim the essential function the media play in protecting the political order against the supposed threat of tyranny embodied in Trump.
The hypocrisy of a media that wear its progressive ideology on its sleeve, and that blatantly skew their coverage of the president at a 90% negative clip, has exposed the motto as mere marketing to the leftist choir.
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Dannielle Blumenthal PhD
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1) It’s just another day in the Swamp.

Who is free to speak here?

It’s coffee time.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018.
2) Freedom of speech is fundamental to #democracy.

I read this the other day:

The remedy for offensive speech...is more speech.
3) Freedom of speech is so precious to our Nation. It is the antidote to tyranny.

Without it we are all reduced to slaves.
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Ilhan Omar
@IlhanMN
Home
no one leaves home unless home chases you
fire under feet
hot blood in your belly
it’s not something you ever thought of doing
until the blade burnt threats into
your neck
and even then you carried the anthem under
your breath

#home #warsanshire #poems
#WhereAreTheChildren
only tearing up your passport in an airport toilets
sobbing as each mouthful of paper
made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.

you have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.
no one crawls under fences
no one wants to be beaten
pitied
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Do you want to hear the story of St Patrick, I’ll tell it here at 9.30 tonight. Please retweet #Paddy
A boat full of Irish pirates pulls up on the coast of Wales -“Story boys, the great Irish king Niall of the Eight Hostages has sent us - we come in peace *snigger, snigger*” #Paddy
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