>I have several relatives that, in the realm of political thought, don't seem to have anything more in their head than a GPT-3 models trained on Fox News (that, just like GPT-3, can't detect any logical contradictions between sentences).
If more people were to realize that we're all probably like this, trained on some particular dataset (like mainstream vs reactionary news/opinion), I wonder if that would lead to a kind of common peace and understanding, perhaps stemming only from a deep nihilism.
Major bills are dictated by party leaders and administrations, very rarely by normal senators and congresspeople.
He's been in the senate since 2007, 13 years. Before that he was a congressman for 16 years. He was an independent except for 2015-2016. Surprise surprise, that makes it hard to get things passed in a two party system. His votes matter. And he still has authored almost twice as many enacted bills as Obama.
Many people actually think that connecting a Ring to the local police is a good thing. Someone even announced this as a great feature at our department wide standup the other day.
Was kinda shocked, but how can I be the guy to go against having more safety? All everyone wants is more safety.
SideCar was the reason I was excited for Catalina. But alas, the feature is not supported on 2015 Retina Macbook Pros, only the newer ones with the horrible keyboard, pointless touchbar, only one kind of port, etc.
I'm in the same boat. Installed the betas on both iPad and MBP about a month ago. Turns out my 2015 pre-horrible-keyboard MBP is too old. And none of the published hacks around the restriction work nowadays.
Be aware that the famous "tank man" was not actually run over. You can see the rest of the video if you look online.
The CIA files have also been leaked which provides more information about that happened that day. As always the truth seems to be somewhere in the middle. Not as bad as the western media says it was but worse than the Chinese government admits.
I always find it weird that no one seems to care about the Nanjing massacre which was much bigger or that Tulsa massacre which most Americans seem to be unaware of...
*>Be aware that the famous "tank man" was not actually run over. You can see the rest of the video if you look online.
I'm not sure how that is relevant and I believe the declassified material you are referring to was an NSA cable sent on the day of the event, when very little was known. Wikipedia has details on the various sources for anyone interested.
The Nanjing Massacre was a horrific incident and I would urge anyone visiting Nanjing to visit the memorial.
That said, one incident was a wartime civilian massacre from an invading army where that army has been defeated and is largely a different country now. The other was the killing of protesting civilians by their own government, which is still in power and broadly unchanged.
Given this, it's clear why one is more topical than the other
Growing up I was taught about the "tank man" and that no one knew what happened after the photo and if he was run over or not ... a partial lie. We know that he was taken away by other civilians and wasn't run over.
I was never taught about the Nanjing massacre or Unit 731 but we spent a lot of time talking about Tiananmen square and Holocaust.
I now know that a lot of my education was biased and I assume other people are completely unaware. Most people I've talked to don't know about the rest of the video which is why I brought it up.
What is your goal in bringing up these unrelated massacres? Neither one is the same as the Tiananmen massacre, as in neither of those two cases was the government killing its own people in response to peaceful protest.
When I was at school I was told that all we had was this one photo and we didn't know what happened to him. I assume other people were told the same thing.
It turns out that there was a video that shows him being taken away by other civilians the whole time.
This comment breaks the site guidelines. There's no reason to assume that adinobro is commenting in bad faith. It's far more likely that he or she simply has a different background than you, and therefore a different view.
Meanwhile, insinuations of disinformation, ill intent, shillage, spying, foreign agents, and all the rest of it, poison the well of this community. It's a big problem. Please don't do it again, regardless of how strongly you feel about some issue or country.
I was just told disinformation growing up along with virtually everyone I grew up with. Maybe your country was more honest about it but mine wasn't (Australia). Most people that I talk to still think he was run over.
I made the point because I assume other people don't know either...
I also grew up in Australia (Melbourne) in the 90s and whilst we were told at the time we don't know what happened to him -- and it's true, at the time we didn't know -- there were no assumptions made about his fate. In fact we were explicitly told not to make any assumptions without facts, as part of the lessons on how to consume news media.
The videos on him were released only much later on.
I understand why. It was blatant propaganda from the west. It makes the story more interesting since people wonder if he was run over which was never stated but implied when I was told: "we don't know what happened after this photo was taken".
I mean, we do not know what happened to him after the photo was taken. He very well could have been rounded up later and executed.
Why are you assuming that it's propaganda? You are the only one in this thread who seems to have associated Tank Man with being run over. Nobody else thought that happened, because there was no footage of it. It's just you.
Roughly 1,000 people died. The population of Beijing was roughly 10,000,000. Chances are he went home and was ignored since he wasn't a student protestor and was basically a nobody. The most boring answer is most likely to be true but no one ever says that. Everyone always says "maybe he was killed".
The reason why I call it propaganda is because it is. The photos and videos are true. But the media decided to just show a small clip of the footage to make it more dramatic and suppressed the whole clip for years. The whole clip is less dramatic. Basically the same as the 3rd example https://www.boredpanda.com/examples-media-truth-manipulation...
Look at all the videos for the 30-year anniversary. None of them use the full clip. All the ones I've seen either just include the photo or cut out as the 3rd tank roles to a stop.
I've become more disillusioned with the media the more I travel and experience news as it happens and see how biased it is.
> The tech firm had said it was aware of civil rights concerns but had not received any reports of law enforcement clients misusing its Rekognition tool.
This really depends on their definition of "misuse", which can be molded to suit their financial goals. Eventually reports of questionable law enforcement use will come in, and I have serious doubts that any large corporation would willingly cut off sales to a large set of existing government clients. This area desperately needs regulation.
> I have serious doubts that any large corporation would willingly cut off sales to a large set of existing government clients.
Barret stopped selling to CA government agencies after CA banned "regular peasants" from owning Barret's flagship product.
That said, this situation is very different politically. People aren't going to stop using AWS en-masse because Amazon is helping enable the police state.
Same for New York now that we can't own them there either. Nice to have someone stand up for us at least, as opposed to all those that will still happily sell to law enforcement.
If more people were to realize that we're all probably like this, trained on some particular dataset (like mainstream vs reactionary news/opinion), I wonder if that would lead to a kind of common peace and understanding, perhaps stemming only from a deep nihilism.