A good use for technology:
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This is a damn good move. Props.
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In February, an Instagram account called @BallerBusters cropped up and began wreaking havoc on the flashy Instagram entrepreneur community. Its goal: To expose phony entrepreneurs. Using a mix of screen-shotted receipts, memes and crowdsourced information from followers, the account seeks out people who don’t “act their wage.”
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Good for them.
I would love to see a map of #con artists per country.
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Here’s a profile of the artist, Dread Scott, who originated the project.
"Many of the 1811 rebels were strangers, forced to organize in secret. Emulating their approach, Scott isn’t specifically enlisting actors or hobbyists for his Army of the Enslaved—though he intends to pay every participant an honorarium. Instead, he has launched a clandestine recruitment process mirroring the original. His core cadre includes professors, poets, arts workers, and student activists. They will in turn canvass others, building a network that will fully assemble for the first time only a few weeks before the event; as he explained, “The less it is a Dread Scott project, the better.”
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One Must Watch Till The End.
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Some flashing in the intro I looked away:
When you have to add hydroflouric acid to make things stabler and safer…
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THe problem is the “business associates” sharing clause in the HIPAA notification you signed in order to be seen by your health provider.
I was shocked when my surgeon had my email address without my giving it to them after being referred by my primary care doctor. It turns out it was sent as part of a so-called “demographics package” by my doctor, and I’d apparently agreed to this when I signed the HIPAA notification. Here’s Google taking it to a whole nother level.
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They call it “Project Nightingale.” As I was reading my brain said “Project Nightmare.”
I assume they’re associating real names with data and comparing it to their massive databases of searches and whatnot? If so that’s a serious violation of HIPPA, not that anyone gets into trouble for it. If the rules have no teeth other than to require patients reading (?) and signing HIPPA instructions, why bother?
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NPR this morning said Google claims they’re keeping it separate from other data of the kind you’re talking about. But it defies belief to think Google doesn’t want to join it all like you said. Once it passes from your hands into theirs, it’s no longer up to you. (Hate this.)
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Trigger warning for @mindysan33.
This reminds me of the xkcd where all the different STEM fields sneer at each other, with the mathematician “winning”.
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@gadgetgirl
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https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc66653
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I’m reading this right now, well after I’m done typing, lol.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/21/that-time-the-us-almost-went-to-war-with-canada-218881
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We don’t need Trump to annex Canada; radio, TV, movies and the almighty dollar have done this for us without violence or too many hard feelings.
Wanna bet? The entire apparatus of Canadian Content regulations in broadcasting is because of American distributors refusing to carry Canadian cultural goods, even in Canada. And Atwood, Mitchell, and all the other artists the article mentions did get snapped up for American distribution eventually, but got their start from those Canadian Content regulations.
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Alice Cooper became popular through broadcasting over Canadian commercial radio near key border cities/towns.
Channel 9 (I think it’s CBET) gave us in Detroit: The Friendly Giant, Mr. Dressup, The Raccoons (and other Nelvana Productions), and lots of BBC shows that PBS didn’t carry, AND we got MPFC from Windsor and WTVS in Detroit! Oh, and SCTV, which I watched more often than I ever did SNL!
And…the genius of “The Cat Came Back”.
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JFC… I am not opposed to employing data in order to better understand history, I think it can be an incredibly useful tool… but for FFS, how about we not replace a god-centric universe with a data centric one… People make history. We study history because it’s about people, how they’ve gone about their lives, and what that amounted to in the present. It most certainly helpful in going about the present to understand the past, but the reality is that it’s shit for predicting the future, because people are unpredictable at heart.
Thanks for the link though… I love that XKCD!
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I was incredulous at how… credulous the journalist seemed to be. Anything “predictive” like this is going to be selective in its predictions. Like why is he focused on geopolitical stuff and not warning is about deep things, like when bell bottoms are coming back?
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