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@bourgwick@heads.social
2024-03-16 16:52:01

pure eyeball kicks & innocent stoned-ass goofiness in the only issue of suds, by buckwheat florida jr., 1969. #comix

dense black and white line drawing with part caption: just remember, lenny bruce was right
dense black and white line drawing
dense black and white line drawing
dense black and white line drawing

Suds : Buckwheat Florida Jr. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
from comixjoint:Buckwheat Florida Jr. has an enigmatic past that probably has nothing to do with buckwheat or Florida. He was apparently living in San...

@design_law@mastodon.social
2024-04-16 12:02:40

Fourth Circuit affirms the USPTO's refusal to register the certain parts of the Timberland boot design as trade dress:
storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

Images from the decision showing the claimed designs, with the text: "For clarity, we have added the numbers on the drawing, which correspond to the design features described in the application." As the court later notes, "TBL did not try to register every aspect of the boot. In its registration application, TBL asserted—or, to use the legal term, “claimed”—intellectual property rights in some, but not all, of the features of its boot design. For instance, as a part of the design it sought to r…
@saraislet@infosec.exchange
2024-03-16 01:17:46

"1. Enhanced structured assessments with cognitive testing"
This is basically "racism with a side of logic puzzles"
"Over the past 12 months, we have tested structured assessments for cultural alignment and technical skills, and validated these were predictive of performance at Coinbase"
Measuring performance is itself a can of worms and racism magnet. In order words: garbage in, garbage out. They're validating that they get what they measure, but if both are biased in the same way, well, probably they aren't learning what they think they are.
"We believe having a minimum bar on these assessments will drive consistency in evaluation, reduce bias, and foster a meritocracy."
Consistency? Probably. Consistency of goose turds.
Reduce bias? Certainly the opposite. They're literally creating bias via cultural alignment. That's the whole fucking point of cultural alignment: it's intentional bias.
Oh, did they mean reducing discrimination against protected classes? LOL. also no. Probably they never learned that IQ tests are racist, and what they're doing is probably worse.
"Foster a meritocracy" what is this, a parody of 2005 libertarian tech start-ups? … … oh right, griftocurrency.
Apparently they were sick the day that their grade school teacher presented why meritocracy is a myth
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_o

@scott@carfree.city
2024-03-16 23:16:47
Content warning: traffic death

AYFKM? London Breed on car crash that killed a parent and child. sfstandard.com/2024/03/16/one-

London Breed saying, “I'm not sure that this particular incident fits in the scope of that problem around Vision Zero” about a traffic crash that caused multiple fatalities

One child, one adult killed, others injured when car strikes bus shelter in West Portal - The San Francisco Standard
One of San Francisco's more chaotic traffic intersections, at the mouth of the West Portal Muni station, was the site of an apparent deadly collision on Saturday.

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2024-03-16 21:30:38

Looking for a warm, awkward, funny, life-affirming but never sentimental novel? Highly recommended the #LandOfShortSentences by Stine Pilgaard - book number 11 in 2024

Books of 2024
My home shelfie Books I’m reading this year… That feeling where you’re looking forward to an early night so you can read your book. And then you remember you finished it the night…

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2024-03-15 21:35:17

Code & Vorurteil
Für das Buch "Code & Vorurteil" der Bildungsstätte Anne Frank habe ich ein Kapitel darüber geschrieben, ob "KI" Systeme Verbündete im Kampf gegen Diskriminierung sein können und ich glaube, dass das strukturell ein Problem ist. Sicherlich gibt es Momente, wo man diesen Systemen Positives in diese Richtung abringen kann, aber es ist immer ein Kampf gegen die Strukturen. Im Buch gibt es noch weitere spannende Essays, nicht nur zum Themenkomple…

Code & Vorurteil
Für das Buch “Code & Vorurteil” der Bildungsstätte Anne Frank habe ich ein Kapitel darüber geschrieben, ob “KI” Systeme Verbündete im Kampf gegen Diskriminierung sein können und ich glaube, dass das strukturell ein Problem ist. Sicherlich gibt es Momente, wo man diesen Systemen Positives in diese Richtung abringen kann, aber es ist immer ein Kampf […]

@jby@ecoevo.social
2024-04-15 15:50:48

Western bluebird in North Hollywood park
#naturalist #photography

A bird with blue wings and head, red-orange breast and flanks, and white underparts, perched on a branch and looking downward with its head tilted in apparent skepticism
@bourgwick@heads.social
2024-03-16 16:28:33

very into musicians publishing #comix with their origin stories, pretty sure this is the most i've ever wanted to listen to canned heat. kanned korn, via the canned heat fan club, 1969 (with a few unfortunate cartoon-depicted racisms inside, surely inadvertently relevant to the story of a white blues band).

Blind Owl origin
Blind Owl origin, part 2
larry the mule taylor origin
Harvey the Snake Mandel origin

Kanned Korn Komix : Bo Shnepf, Neal Aberman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
from comixjoint:There were several underground comic books that were about rock and roll musicians or financed by musicians or their labels, but Kanned Korn...

@design_law@mastodon.social
2024-04-16 12:02:40

Fourth Circuit affirms the USPTO's refusal to register the certain parts of the Timberland boot design as trade dress:
storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

Images from the decision showing the claimed designs, with the text: "For clarity, we have added the numbers on the drawing, which correspond to the design features described in the application." As the court later notes, "TBL did not try to register every aspect of the boot. In its registration application, TBL asserted—or, to use the legal term, “claimed”—intellectual property rights in some, but not all, of the features of its boot design. For instance, as a part of the design it sought to r…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2024-03-15 21:35:17

Code & Vorurteil
Für das Buch "Code & Vorurteil" der Bildungsstätte Anne Frank habe ich ein Kapitel darüber geschrieben, ob "KI" Systeme Verbündete im Kampf gegen Diskriminierung sein können und ich glaube, dass das strukturell ein Problem ist. Sicherlich gibt es Momente, wo man diesen Systemen Positives in diese Richtung abringen kann, aber es ist immer ein Kampf gegen die Strukturen. Im Buch gibt es noch weitere spannende Essays, nicht nur zum Themenkomple…

Code & Vorurteil
Für das Buch “Code & Vorurteil” der Bildungsstätte Anne Frank habe ich ein Kapitel darüber geschrieben, ob “KI” Systeme Verbündete im Kampf gegen Diskriminierung sein können und ich glaube, dass das strukturell ein Problem ist. Sicherlich gibt es Momente, wo man diesen Systemen Positives in diese Richtung abringen kann, aber es ist immer ein Kampf […]