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2 Aug
The worst part of machine learning snake-oil isn't that it's useless or harmful - it's that ML-based statistical conclusions have the veneer of mathematics, the empirical facewash that makes otherwise suspect conclusions seem neutral, factual and scientific.

1/ MAD Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman, sporting a doctor's forehea
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Think of "predictive policing," in which police arrest data is fed to a statistical model that tells the police where crime is to be found. Put in those terms, it's obvious that predictive policing doesn't predict what criminals will do; it predicts what POLICE will do.

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2 Aug
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1968) wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/658376349…
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1968) wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/658376349…
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1968) wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/658376349…
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1 Aug
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Github pledges legal aid for interoperators; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/08/01/bal…

#Pluralistic

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Github pledges legal aid for interoperators: Youtube-dl's legacy.



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got a Disney insignia web.archive.org/web/2006120920…

#15yrsago How thieves steal RFID-enabled cars wired.com/2006/08/carkey/

#15yrsago Diebold voting machines can be beaten with a switch-flip web.archive.org/web/2006100712…

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1 Aug
Last Oct, the @RIAA launched a bizarre campaign of legal bullying against #youtubedl, a free/open library that lets people save Youtube (and other) videos for a variety of purposes, including critical analysis, offline viewing, archiving and remixing.

pluralistic.net/2020/10/24/120…

1/ EFF's interoperability graphic, with the Github logo matted
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The RIAA attacked youtube-dl under Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (#DMCA1201) a 1998 law that indiscriminately bans helping people remove DRM, even if no copyright infringement takes place.

pluralistic.net/2020/10/28/tru…

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