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by rexpop 6y ago
To decry accountability as "public flogging" is not an example of accountability and apology. It's a pretty good example of a non-apology. It reads as evidence that he's really detached from the harm. You are not the aut
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by rexpop 6y ago
Repercussions scale inversely with wealth, and power.
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by rexpop 6y ago
Shocking, to me, that you consider forgiveness a higher priority than accountability.
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by rexpop 6y ago
> you can’t even say in a court room “well we have video of him doing this”. Good. We should dispense with retributive justice, and replace it with restorative, transformative systems which are a noop on the wrongly accused.
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by rexpop 6y ago
The question isn't "what's wrong with the technology," but rather "what harm can it do in the context of our societal development?"
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by rexpop 6y ago
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. ― Upton Sinclair
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by rexpop 6y ago
Seems like that's a choice Uber's going to make. I, as a voter, am not going to bend to their tantrum-throwing. If a business can't provide adequate compensation, it shouldn't operate. Edit: To be clear, I guarantee Uber
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by rexpop 6y ago
I do not consider "flexibility of relationship" to be at stake, since all employment is "at will," anyway. It's just a question, in my mind, of to what compensation a worker is entitled. Market dynamics demands gig
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by rexpop 6y ago
This should do it: <form method="post" action="/form" autocomplete="off">
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by rexpop 6y ago
Why does entering my name prompt me to auto-fill in my credit card information? That's some scary bad HTML5.
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by rexpop 6y ago
It's hardly a social norm. LSD was discovered in our lifetimes, and hasn't yet reached its peak popularity, I don't think, due to legal status quashing its growth. Its omission from the workplace is hardly a well-established
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by rexpop 6y ago
> History is horrifying. History is not over, yet.
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by rexpop 6y ago
To squeeze blood from stones.
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by rexpop 6y ago
Two things: 1. At 6% women—and, therefore, 94% men—I would say the winners' pool is egregiously sexist. 2. An "old boys' club" is an idiomatic expression referring to exclusive, undemocratic and even unmeritocratic socia
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by rexpop 6y ago
Old boys' clubs patting one another on the back. The Nobel Prize is an embarrassment to our species.
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by rexpop 6y ago
Amen. At the end of the day, a tool is used for what it can accomplish—whether it was a goal, or not.
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by rexpop 6y ago
Where do pro-virtuous traditions come from, and why are they absent from the Global South?
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by rexpop 6y ago
I agree. These terms are common, euphemistic allusions to other problems. They should state plainly the issue: lack of buying power, economic leverage among the working class, lack of choice, and inadequately available housing. These are of
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by rexpop 6y ago
Why are people in the Global South less virtuous?
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by rexpop 6y ago
> Those countries have terrible governments Why?
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by rexpop 6y ago
> most of the teaching in humanities is just assigning books to read To you, apparently, one book is as good as another?
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by rexpop 6y ago
So advertisements deplete dignity, with no recompense or amelioration? No wonder our society's replete with indignity.
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by rexpop 6y ago
> Just like old media. The jury is still out on that one, I believe.
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by rexpop 6y ago
Yes, and? It's impossible to escape [ideological indoctrination]( https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideo... ).
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by rexpop 6y ago
I don't think you understand the Luddites, to be frank. Theirs was a reasonable reaction to the evaporation of control, individual agency (as skilled workers) and political sovereignty of the laborer. They saw their livelihoods evapora
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by rexpop 6y ago
And all propaganda is political.
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by rexpop 6y ago
I cannot tell you how gratifying it is to see my words described as "rational." Many technologists have a Right-Libertarian bent which rests on a fundamentally irrational trust in the ethics of the private firm, as a reflective va
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by rexpop 6y ago
> Facebook is just a mirror This is an echo of the "dumb pipes" argument, which characterizes social media as neutral carriers of both harmless and harmful content. While I recognize that harmful ideology originate outside of F
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by rexpop 6y ago
> nut job fringe elements This is not, to the best of my understanding, what's actually happening. Such elements are actively cultivated and their reach is facilitated by powerful benefactors. It's not a natural phenomenon. Rig
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by rexpop 6y ago
> lack of education and aggressive state-actor PsyOps Are there media which are not susceptible to PsyOps? (Edit: for example, print or online newspapers, television, etc. They arguably, by setting a higher standard of rational and in

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