Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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2·6 days agoI haven’t heard of academics and/or media from China advocating for applications of phrenology/physiognomy or other related racist pseudosciences. Have you?
one can also get the full paper directly from yale here without needing to solve a google captcha:
I don’t have the time nor the expertise to read everything to understand how they take into account the bias that good looking white men with educated parents are way more likely to succeed at life.
i admittedly did not read the entire 61 pages but i read enough to answer this:
spoiler
they don’t
Plastic surgery would become more popular.
One of the paper’s authors had the same thought:
“Suppose this type of technology gets used in labor market screening, or maybe dating markets,” Shue muses. “Going forward, you could imagine a reaction in which people then start modifying their pictures to look a certain way. Or they could modify their actual faces through cosmetic procedures.”
She also bizarrely says that:
“we are very much not advocating that this technology be used by firms as part of their hiring process.”
and yet, for some reason:
The next step for Shue and her colleagues is to explore whether certain personality types are drawn to specific industries or whether those personality types are more likely to succeed within given industries.
321·9 days ago
lol, i only skimmed it and actually didn’t notice it’s limited to Europe.
(my attempted joke was meant to imply something about kiwi accents making them not a part of the anglosphere)
another one for !mapswithoutnz@lemmy.nz smh my head
The bears definitely took notice of the drone. The animals’ heart rate skyrocketed when the UAV flew overhead, and their stress response was stronger when the quadcopter flew in windy conditions that masked the sound of its approach — apparently bears do not like being surprised. One bear started moving faster after the quadcopter flew by. And the bear that had experienced the greatest increase in heart rate — from 41 beats per minute to 162 — moved nearly 7 kilometers in the next 28 hours, encroaching into a neighboring female’s territory.
All in all, though, the bears weren’t stressed all that much, the researchers concluded.
🤌
At least there is this:
Ditmer’s team says that their results reinforce the NPS ban on drones in parks.
you don't say
71·13 days agofive consecutive posts in a single community is a bit much for what is essentially the same story. why not put them all in the body of a single post where they could be discussed together?
you made five posts about this just in !usa@lemmy.ml
2·13 days agoWhen Miamoto died,
Myamoto isn’t dead
1·13 days agothe leap from “lower factual error rates than an equally-prompted baseline without retrieval (as judged by an external LLM)” to “enables trustworthy, cross-domain scientific synthesis at scale and establishes the foundation for an ever-expanding encyclopedia”
7·16 days ago😭
this report actually just now came in:
2·16 days agoHe signed up to go through the justice system, trusting or at least hoping that it would produce justice even with the entire weight of the federal government convinced he was guilty of treason, and committed to destroying him because of what he had done.
Signed up to? He didn’t intend to get caught, and when he eventually turned himself in (while a fugitive, having been already identified) he actually expected to go to prison. And he almost certainly would have, were it not for the gross government misconduct against him (which he only became aware of later) and being lucky enough to get a judge who was sufficiently offended by that misconduct declare a mistrial.
'The bizarre events have incurably infected the prosecution of this case.'
In the midst of Ellsberg’s trial, the case took a number of bizarre twists. The first, on April 26, 1973, came in the form of a disclosure by the government prosecutor that White House operatives had burglarized the Beverly Hills office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. The burglars, led by G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were not apprehended until after the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington nine months later.
But just days after the disclosure in Judge Byrne’s courtroom, Nixon’s two top lieutenants – John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman – resigned, along with acting attorney general Richard G. Kleindienst. White House counsel John Dean was fired.
A few days later, another disturbing revelation came from the judge himself. He disclosed in court that he had had two recent contacts with Ehrlichman, who had offered him a job – director of the FBI. Although Ehrlichman later testified before the Senate Watergate Committee that Judge Byrne had expressed interest in the FBI job, the judge insisted that he had told the Nixon aide he could not discuss any job offer while the Ellsberg trial was underway.
The trial was shaken again on May 9 when Judge Byrne learned of yet another impropriety: The FBI had secretly taped telephone conversations between Ellsberg and Morton Halperin, who had supervised the Pentagon Papers study.
When the government claimed it had lost all relevant records of the wiretapping, Judge Byrne declared a mistrial on May 11, 1973.
“The totality of the circumstances of this case which I have only briefly sketched offend a sense of justice,” Byrne told the court that day. “The bizarre events have incurably infected the prosecution of this case.”
The courtroom erupted in cheers and applause as Ellsberg was freed.
Ellsberg learned of Byrne’s death Friday as he was attending a conference of First Amendment lawyers in Palm Desert, Calif., where he took part in a panel discussion of the Pentagon Papers.
“His dismissal of all charges against Tony Russo and myself with the eloquent denunciation of government misconduct, in which he said it offends a sense of justice, gave my wife and me one of the best days of our lives,” Ellsberg said.
(from https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/14/AR2006011401165.html )
When’s the last time that happened in Russia?
Huh? Are you actually trying to downplay the persecution of Daniel Ellsberg (which also included an aborted plot to neutralize him with LSD) by dropping a non-sequitur “but Russia”? 😂
i checked their website to see if these are real; disappointingly they are not. they do actually have a “conductor’s coal” scent, though.