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The world's richest man is arguing for taxing and slowing automation.
Robots are taking human jobs. But Bill Gates believes that governments should tax companies’ use of them, as a way to at least temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of employment.
It’s a striking position from the world’s richest man and a self-described techno-optimist who co-founded Microsoft, one of the leading players in artificial-intelligence technology.
In a recent interview with Quartz, Gates said that a robot tax could finance jobs taking care of elderly people or working with kids in schools, for which needs are unmet and to which humans are particularly well suited. He argues that governments must oversee such programs rather than relying on businesses, in order to redirect the jobs to help people with lower incomes. The idea is not totally theoretical: EU lawmakers considered a proposal to tax robot owners to pay for training for workers who lose their jobs, though on Feb. 16 the legislators ultimately rejected it.
“You ought to be willing to raise the tax level and even slow down the speed” of automation, Gates argues. That’s because the technology and business cases for replacing humans in a wide range of jobs are arriving simultaneously, and it’s important to be able to manage that displacement. “You cross the threshold of job replacement of certain activities all sort of at once,” Gates says, citing warehouse work and driving as some of the job categories that in the next 20 years will have robots doing them.
Happy birthday Nichelle Nichols ! (December 28, 1932)
“Nichelle Nichols (born Grace Dell Nichols) is an American actress, singer and voice artist. She sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton before turning to acting. Her most famous role is that of communications officer Lieutenant Uhura aboard the USS Enterprise in the popular Star Trek television series (1966–1969), as well as the succeeding motion pictures, where her character was eventually promoted in Starfleet to the rank of commander.
Nichols’ Star Trek character, one of the first African American female characters on American television not portrayed as a servant, was groundbreaking in U.S. society at the time. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. personally praised her work on the show and asked her to remain when she considered leaving the series.“
After the cancellation of Star Trek, Nichols volunteered her time in a special project with NASA to recruit minority and female personnel for the space agency. She began this work by making an affiliation between NASA and a company which she helped to run, Women in Motion.
The program was a success. Among those recruited were Dr. Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, and United States Air Force Colonel Guion Bluford, the first African-American astronaut, as well as Dr. Judith Resnik and Dr. Ronald McNair, who both flew successful missions during the Space Shuttle program before their deaths in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986. Recruits also included Charles Bolden, the current NASA administrator and veteran of four shuttle missions, and Lori Garver, former deputy administrator.
An enthusiastic advocate of space exploration, Nichols has served since the mid-1980s on the board of governors of the National Space Society, a nonprofit, educational space advocacy organization founded by Dr. Wernher von Braun. Always interested in space travel, Nichols flew aboard NASA’s C-141 Astronomy Observatory, which analyzed the atmospheres of Mars and Saturn on an eight-hour, high-altitude mission.
You can watch the Star Trek series here
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every day the same telemarketing company calls us. I’ve asked to be taken off their calling list, I’ve tried to be civil, I’ve even tried to not answer the phone, yet they’ll keep calling. So now I’ve resorted to making the phones calls as annoying as possible for them.
Today I asked the person to hold while I got a pen and paper. As of now, they’ve been waiting 45 minutes.
Update:
I just asked him if he was still there, then when he said yes i told him i had found a pen but no paper, but that i’m still looking. It’s been an hour.
I HAVE LITERALLY BEEN ON TUMBLR AND YOUTUBE WHILE THIS GUY WAITS. IT’S BEEN ALMOST AN HOUR AND A HALF
Update:
After an hour and 35 minutes I told him that i had found paper, but my pen was dead. He hung up. Ah well, i’ll just do it again tomorrow!
You are the future
As a former telemarketer, I can tell you that the only reason that guy hung on the line for so long was because he didn’t really want to make any more calls anyway and was probably reading a book or chatting with friends while you pretended to find paper and pen. He was enjoying your mischief as much, if not more, than you were. You literally gave this guy an acceptable reason to take an hour and a half break. You are his hero. He likely only finally hung up because it was officially his break time anyway. He probably told all his co-workers about your call and they’ll be laughing about it for weeks.
Holy shit, is this a happy ending to a post where everybody actually wins?
ACTUALLY YES because according to parental unit number one, telemarketers get paid by how long they’re on the phone with someone. so you were literally helping this friend get paid by doing absolutely shit
vive la resistance
Also some call centres strongly frown on hanging up the phone, so they got to follow the rules and chill
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Every month in 2016 has broken a temperature record
For the first time ever, NASA created a mid-year climate report — because this year is so goddamn out-of-control hot. Every month so far this year has broken a temperature record, according to the report. Taken together, the first six months are also the warmest six months on record, with average temperatures about 1.3 Celsius above late-19th-century temperatures. And NASA says El Niño isn’t solely to blame.
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Trevor responds to Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.’s comments about “Blue Lives Matter” at last night’s RNC.
The Black Comics/Animation artist MEGAPOST You’ve Been Waiting For
So, awhile ago I hit you guys up for some examples of comic art excellence. THANKS FOR YOUR AMAZING RESPONSE! I think that post reached 400 people! I’ve compiled the answers that jumped out to me as well as some of my own in the list below. Give these guys your eyes, moneys and work!
Tiffany Ford aka toffany:
chriskindred Chris Kindred:
Gyimah Litsitso Gariba ggariba:
Afua Richardson
Chris Visions chrisvisions:
Lamar Abrams neo-rama:
leseanthomas Lesean Thomas:
Jonathan Djob Nkondo absenteism:
Sanford Greene sanfordgreene:
Spike Trotman :
Richie Pope richiepope:
Khary Randolph kharyrandolph:
Woodrow Phoenix woodrowphoenix:
Chase Conley chaseconley:
(partial to this image for some reason!)
Shawna Mills lazymills:
Toby Cypress tobycypress
Dave Crossland davecrosland:
Valentine de Landro valentinedelandro
Olivier Coipel:
Adam Hines:
Damon Moran telodyne
If that shit right there don’t make you feel good, man… I don’t know what the fuck to tell you!
Keron Grant:
Ed: I meant to put felipesmithart on here:
And my homegir buckycee reminded that I forgot about the homie Johnie Christmas:
ANd while I’m at it, let me throw in
julianlytle
and Ted Lange IV hellotedward:
…That said, I’d like to see less sausages on this menu. You guys got any more suggestions of another variety?
and now that we’ve gotten that out of the way. What about writers( who draw or don’t draw their work)?
In case ya’ll forgot about this.
I’m gonna throw on @fredbread:
…cause I was looking for his site to pass on, and it wasn’t on this post. And he’s dope.
Also I had the pleasure to recently meeting @whimsicalnobodycomics, or Whit Taylor, who I have worked with in the past on occasion. Definitely check out her work.
…on that note, also worked with @shannondrewthis on the Nib for Medium. She’s dope:
…I didn’t mention it, but I make comics too. I made this post. I’m @d3-14 and I’m excited by how much this post has gotten around,
-deuces
Such an awesome living-list of artists.
what an honor, thank you!
!!!!!!!
Watch: Frederick Douglass’ Fourth of July speech is still incredibly meaningful today
Archinaut, a 3D Printing Robot to Make Big Structures in Space
Historically, the only way to get anything into orbit has been by rocket; a process that is massively expensive, cumbersome, and presents a slew of constraints. So, when Made In Space created the first zero-gravity 3D printer, it was understandably a big deal.
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“After interviewing some 8,000 people in Atlanta, Emory University professor of psychiatry Dr. Kerry Ressler and his colleagues say that they are seeing evidence of higher rates of PTSD in this urban population than in war veterans.”
“We are seeing the same (high instances of PTSD) in cities like D.C. and Chicago”
“This wide range of trauma experience meant that 32% of this population suffered PTSD symptoms.”
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/health/urban-ptsd-problems/
i’ve read studies that put it as high as 54% of black teenage boys in particular
This is so true
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😳😳😳 this made me so happy!
Cyborg Vol 1 #6 (2015) // DC Comics
Cyborg (Victor Stone)
Story: David F. Walker, art: Felipe Watanabe
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On Sunday, police responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle parked on Manchester Boulevard around 3:10 am. When police arrived, they engaged in a 45-minute long standoff before opening fire on the man and woman inside the vehicle, killing them both.
The woman was pronounced dead shortly after the shooting, and the man succumbed to his injuries after paramedics transported him to a local hospital.
The shooting seemed like an open and shut case until the next day. Mayor James Butts, while responding to questions about the shooting, opened up a huge can of worms — both the man and the woman were unconscious.
For at least 45 minutes, police attempted “to rouse” them in an effort “to de-escalate the situation,” said Butts.
After admitting that the couple was asleep, Butts quickly defended the officers, noting, “Obviously at some point they were conscious because somebody felt threatened.”
However, that notion has yet to be proven and is particularly unlikely due to the fact that not a single officer received so much as a scratch, nor did the couple have any reason to be violent.
Both of the victims were parents; Kisha Michael, 31, a single mother of three sons, and Marquintan Sandlin, 32, a single father of four daughters.
Families for both described them as devoted parents who made arrangements for care of their children while they took a night off.
“The police ain’t telling us nothing,” said Trisha Michael after being met with tight lips from the department.
“He was a loving father,” said Sandlin’s sister Leandra Faulkner. “All he cared about was his girls, getting them right.”
According to his relatives, Sandlin had a ‘rough life’ but had turned it around and was working as a successful truck driver.
Sadly, these children will now grow up knowing that their parents were taken from them by cops, scared of a sleeping couple.
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‘For at least 45 minutes the cops attempted “to rouse” them in an effort “to de-escalate the situation” said Butts.After admitting that the couple were asleep, Butts quickly defended the officers actions, noting, “Obviously at some point they were conscious because somebody felt threatened.“’
What the fuck, were they aggressively snoring? Who opens fire on someone they just spent 45 minutes trying to wake up? Great. Now I’ve heard it all. Cops are afraid of unconscious people. 45 minutes of de-escalation? Did it ever once occur that if you try to wake someone up in a car with loud noise and they don’t wake up, medical attention may be needed?
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Sleeping in your car can be a death sentence in the police state #BlackLivesMatter Booost!
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