The head of Google's "Ethical AI" team advocated for making its language processors dumber because training them on large amounts of text could risk the robot reading materials predating "BLM" and "MeToo" and because training caused carbon emissions.
She threatened to quit unless she was given the names of those who crossed her, so Google accepted her resignation.
The other co-leader was a feminist who complained of “nebulous complaints to HR about her personality,” and "exfiltrated" emails to try to show "discrimination."
The boss rejected her claim that Google was discriminatory, using his personal knowledge. But will a Google machine learning model be trained to take ubiquitous discrimination as a baked-in assumption everywhere else? A dystopia of robots calculating and enforcing racial quotas?
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A school board member who recently said Israel "desecrates the Holy Land" used a graduation speech to warn mostly-immigrant students they’re entering a world of “capitalism” & “white supremacy” and encourage them to remember “jihad” & reject objectivity.
Omeish explains how teachers turn students into political activists, ignoring "pushback," then administrators are pressed to adopt policies on the notion that children want it.
The speech came at Justice HS, whose name was selected by the board after discarding residents' choice
She seemed to "clap back" at fellow Dems' criticism of her anti-Israel rhetoric, saying people “may seek to intimidate you or make you think the truth is controversial,” but "haters" are "a sign you’re unsettling the status quo towards justice."
Basically this case comes down to:
> Oil companies like Chevron are bad
>> OK, but in this instance, you totally fabricated all the evidence against them in a brazen shakedown attempt and relied on bribed a judge to make your case
> Why are you siding with someone bad!?
It's a clear attempt to politicize the judiciary, where someone's culpability rests not on whether they actually did something, but on whether they're popular under identity politics, etc.
Cooper also accompanied Joe Biden on a trip to Mexico.
Cooper is an international investor and gambling CEO who had a deal with Hunter for equity sharing on "various projects dealing with both domestic and international transactions."
“In order to develop this as a platform for both JRBs I think it is imperative we (the three of us) have full control come 2016 when JRB1 comes on board,” Hunter wrote to Jeff Cooper in November 2014.
"Keep teaching! Just don’t make everything visible on Canvas. This is not being deceitful. This is just doing what you have done for years. Prior to the pandemic you didn’t send everything home or have it available. You taught in your classroom and things were peachy keen."
"Anything that could be picked apart I would suggest using this above approach… I wouldn’t throw it out, but you could just not give them access to the story.
When you get to Power Imbalances – You might remove the two examples and just go over them in class (same as above)."
Software company Basecamp announced Monday that it was a company focused on developing software -- not an entity that should try to shape Americans’ political opinions, engineer its employees’ personal lives, or take positions on unrelated public debates.
Basecamp is known for expertise in organizational management. It produces efficiency software, heralded remote work a decade ago, and wrote a book on "calm" offices.
Politics at work is a “distraction. It saps our energy, and redirects our dialog towards dark places,” CEO wrote
"By trying to have the debates around such incredibly sensitive societal politics inside the company, we’re setting ourselves up for strife, with little chance of actually changing anyone’s mind.
It’s become ever more stressful, unnerving, and counterproductive."
That led to threats, accusations, a warning from the city council's vice president that the money might be coopted by a "crackhead" on the city council, and the promise to "expose that ass" regarding that colleague’s purported "homosexual activities in the penitentiary."
The vice president found bullet holes in his vehicles and police made an arrest after he received a threatening phone call involving city spending.
The council president says she's not sure what the city is allowed to do with the money, though some want to use it for raises.