I know, and know of, many strong-minded, independent, intelligent women who kneel to a male Presence every day, and allow Him to run their lives. Yet some of those same women protest against how they are treated by men. Um, ladies…
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That’s sofa king ridiculous
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an interview wiith Cathy O’Neil, who says that she was not even surprised by the news.
So at first glance, this does seem like a pretty convincing case of algorithm-fueled gender discrimination?
We don’t have enough information to know what was really going on there. The truth is they have all sorts of data about us that we don’t even know about, and our profiles, even if they’re not accurate, are available for corporations like Apple to purchase, even though we individuals can’t purchase our own. So there’s all sorts of things that could have happened in that particular case that might not have anything to do with gender. But on the other hand, we don’t know. It could have something to do with gender. The larger point is that it’s unaccountable and opaque, and Apple doesn’t really care. The most important point being that we should demand that they do better than that. We should demand accountability on the part of anybody who’s using an algorithm like that.
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I’m glad they choose O’Neil to interview as the subject matter expert, because she understands it’s never going to be as crude as “if sex==F score=score/10”, and not just because that’s illegal.
Women influence 83% of all consumer spending in the US (source). They actually do a lot of that spending. And it’s often for households, not just themselves, but in a database, yeah, they could look like spendthrifts who need to be reined in.
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THIS is a THING OF BEAUTY. The headline does not begin to describe the beautiful madness of this resistance.
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Holy fucksocks, how I fluv her.
The idea that you can be ‘civil’ or “nonviolent” with people who are uncivil and violent with you is some gaslighting bullshit.
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WWMLKjS? Or Gandhi, for that matter? Or did they speak about how to handle uncivil and violent folks?
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This is an exaggerated and lovingly-parodied Latin version of the battle of the sexes:
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As much as I love most of Warhol’s work, and as much as I believe Solanis was wrong to shoot him, I’m not surprised in the least about the right-wing part. It’s something we’ve talked about here before: men who want to be “out there” but don’t want any women to join in except as ornaments. And in their world trans women weren’t women, but “out there” men. Go figure.
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Don’t get me started on the treatment of Edie Sedgwick by the males of the species.
And, totally diff subject:
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Rita Moreno rocks!!!
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** cackles in winning Spanish **
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I’ve been binge-watching her stuff, it’s SO spot-on, no matter what the culture.
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wtf?
There’s more.
It’s a 713 page bill with the title To amend sections 109.57, 109.572, 109.97, 177.01, 313.131, 2105.19, 2108.77, 2151.356, 2151.414, 2151.419, 2152.02, 2152.021, 2152.11, 2152.12, 2152.16, 2152.17, 2152.20, 2152.59, 2152.72, 2152.74, 2152.86, 2317.02, 2901.01, 2901.02, 2901.07, 2901.13, 2903.41, 2909.24, 2921.32, 2921.34, 2923.01, 2923.02, 2923.131, 2923.132, 2923.31, 2923.32, 2927.21, 2929.01, 2929.02, 2929.021, 2929.022, 2929.023, 2929.024, 2929.03, 2929.04, 2929.05, 2929.06, 2929.13, 2929.14, 2929.143, 2929.31, 2929.32, 2929.34, 2930.16, 2933.51, 2933.81, 2933.82, 2937.222, 2941.14, 2941.143, 2941.147, 2941.148, 2945.06, 2945.11, 2945.38, 2945.57, 2945.74, 2949.02, 2950.01, 2950.99, 2953.08, 2953.09, 2953.11, 2953.21, 2953.25, 2967.01, 2967.05, 2967.12, 2967.121, 2967.13, 2967.18, 2967.19, 2967.193, 2967.26, 2971.01, 2971.03, 2971.07, 3301.32, 3301.541, 3313.662, 3319.31, 3319.39, 3712.09, 3721.121, 3734.44, 4715.30, 4717.05, 4717.051, 4717.14, 4723.092, 4723.281, 4730.25, 4731.22, 4734.36, 4741.22, 4757.361, 4759.07, 4760.13, 4761.09, 4762.13, 4765.114, 4774.13, 4776.10, 4778.14, 5103.0319, 5120.032, 5120.53, 5120.61, 5139.05, 5139.20, 5149.101, and 5153.111 and to enact sections 2904.01, 2904.02, 2904.03, 2904.04, 2904.20, 2904.30, and 2904.35 of the Revised Code to create the capital offense of aggravated abortion murder and the offense of abortion murder."
so no wonder it generated two different horrible headlines. There’s probably a third, or fourth bit of insanity that hasn’t yet been unearthed.
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Fenruary 23rd, OS, in the 20th and 21st centuries. March 8th, NS.
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