off to other bars @nextbar - Tumblr Blog

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

dynastylnoire

Being black is so wild because you're supposed to like live and work in spaces with white folks that think they aren't racist because they haven't hit you with the hard R but definitely are afraid/hate you, and just be ok with that.

Not much for me here any longer

I think I’ll be abandoning this account. way too many ads for what's here. between that and the bot accounts it’s a bit pointless.

Take care

eggycarton

Minneapolis Police Killed Another Innocent Black Man: Winston Smith

I havent seen any posts about this on tumblr yet, and it seems like local MN tweets aren’t reaching as wide an audience as usual, so here I am.

Winston Smith was murdered by MPD in broad daylight on June 3rd, 2021 around 2PM in Uptown, Minneapolis. MPD claimed that they were pursuing a “felon with a gun”/“murder suspect” to try to cover up the shooting. They then claimed that there was no bodycam or dashcam footage of the pursuit. Below are headlines from the Star Tribune, which broadcasted directly what MPD told them to.

It is believed that Smith may have been targeted and murdered by MPD due to his radical protesting beliefs and involvment in the Minneapolis protesting scene. I encourage to watch the video he himself made and posted.

Mayor Jacob Frey has only allowed the situation to escalate by deploying more MPD to south Minneapolis. MPD has already injured a civilian for trying to bring food to protesters who have been holding down the streets of Uptown, near where Smith was killed.

And this was all done while the city was forcefully opening George Floyd Square. They removed barricades, violated the memorials, and are attempting to allow traffic to flow back on 38th and Chicago. This was all on the same day. Mayor Frey has no respect for his constituents. This community is in mourning.

PLEASE follow @ DocumentingMN and @ UR_Ninja on twitter to stay up to date with Minneapolis protests and news. This shit won’t be on national news as long as MPD has control of the narrative.

serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty

Boss made a dollar

I made a dime,

That was a poem

From a simpler time.

Now boss makes a thousand

And gives us a cent

While he’s got employees

Who can’t pay the rent.

So when boss makes a million

And the workers make jack

Then that’s when we riot

And take our lives back.

#WorkingClassSolidarity

breya-etherium-shaper

You ever think about how the only reason Samuel l Jackson got into acting is because he was a radical activist and his mom got threatened that he’d end up dead so she sent him away to school to save him

postmarxed

Literally the FBI told her to get him out of Atlanta or they were going to murder him

pretentiouslimericks

yourkpopidolsucks

UMMM???? CAN WE GET SOME ELABORATION PLEASE?????

breya-etherium-shaper

scallioncreamcheesebagel

the fbi literally threatens people fighting for racial equality with death without a trial and people still think theyre the good guys

news-queue

Environment minister Barbara Pompili says proposals will help country to meet net zero emissions

The country that gave the world foie gras, coq au vin and le steak frites is being asked to ditch its meat-heavy diet in favour of vegetarian options, as France embarks on a historic “culture shift” that will bring sweeping changes to all aspects of society, the French environment minister has said.

Meat will be off the menu at least one day a week in schools, while vegetarian options will be standard in public catering, and chefs will be trained in how to prepare healthy and toothsome plant-based meals.

The proposals have sparked uproar and howls of outrage among the traditionalists of French cuisine, but have been welcomed by many young people.

Barbara Pompili, minister for ecological transition, said the country’s wide-ranging plan to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions would improve health and wellbeing, while providing a big boost to the economy.

“Developing a vegetarian menu offer is about freedom as much as ecology,” she said. “Vegetarians must be able to find menus that cater to their needs in their canteens. This is especially true for young people, among whom the proportion of vegetarians is twice as high as the rest of the population.”

The climate and resilience bill, now under examination by the higher chamber of the French parliament, includes: one compulsory vegetarian menu a week in all schools; one daily vegetarian choice in all state-run canteens, including government establishments and universities; training for canteen staff to guarantee high-quality vegetarian menus; and the stipulation that from 2024, 60% of the meat served in mass catering must meet minimum quality requirements, which are likely to favour meat produced in France over imports.

Pompili said the changes would boost French farming by emphasising local food, while reducing carbon.

“[About] 15% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and 91% of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest are linked to livestock farming,” she said. “So developing a vegetarian offer means acting for the climate, against deforestation, while giving canteens more room to purchase high-quality, locally produced meat that is better for the environment. Everyone wins.”

That reassurance is key, in a country that just two years ago saw months of violent protests by the “gilets jaunes”, sparked in late 2018 by a row about fuel price rises that were brought in on environmental grounds but which many felt unfairly penalised people living in the countryside.

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ayeforscotland

Link to original tweet: https://twitter.com/aidanctweets/status/1131864744690900993?s=21

birlinterrupted

Love to wake up to seeing the only renter insurance available to me having to tweet that they absolutely do NOT do phrenology no matter what it is that they said before

prospitianescapee

Screenshot of a response to one of the tweets in question.

prospitianescapee

Here's the full text of the thread in question, including images:

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Lemonade is built on a digital substrate - we use bots and machine learning to make insurance instant, seamless, and delightful.

This puts us at a data advantage—in fact, we collect about 100X more data than traditional insurance carriers. Here’s why that matters 👇 (1/7)

- 12:38, 24 May 2021

A typical homeowners policy form has 20–40 fields (name, address, bday…), so traditional insurers collect 20-40 data points per user. AI Maya asks just 13 Q's but collects over 1,600 data points, producing nuanced profiles of our users and remarkably predictive insights. (2/7) - 12:38, 24 May 2021

This data helps us understand the level of risk each customer brings, which improves our underwriting, customer acquisition, and fraud detection. (3/7) - 12:38, 24 May 2021

For example, when a user files a claim, they record a video on their phone and explain what happened. Our AI carefully analyzes these videos for signs of fraud. It can pick up non-verbal cues that traditional insurers can't, since they don’t use a digital claims process. (4/7) - 12:38, 24 May 2021

This ultimately helps us lower our loss ratios (aka, how much we pay out in claims vs. how much we take in), and our overall operating costs. In Q1 2017, our loss ratio was 368% (friggin’ terrible), and in Q1 2021 it stood at 71%! (5/7) - 12:38, 24 May 2021

As our library of predictive data grows, our machine learning crunches data to make our platform better at evaluating risk and delighting customers. This furthers growth, which leads to more data… and so on. (6/7) - 12:38, 24 May 2021

This creates a system that learns as it goes, extending these advantages with every turn of the flywheel. (7/7)

- 12:38, 24 May 2021

prospitianescapee

FYI, a bunch of AI researchers on Twitter - including Mr. Narayanan from the screenshot above - have already pointed this out, but the sort of system they're describing both cannot "detect lying" (something which is not possible) and also is not actually intended to.

What it actually is is a way to establish a pseudo-scientific rationale for accusing customers of lying, so the company can refuse to pay out. This kind of AI generates "reports" containing solemn-looking language and diagrams, which the company can present to a court or a government audit as "scientific evidence" that they're not cheating people.

These "reports" have no more basis in fact than some guy saying "oh yeah I'm sure he was lying it was ALL over his face." But they LOOK like machine-generated data untouched by human bias, so people often take them seriously, as if they're something like an MRI image or security video. They're not.

(Recently, the law firm I work for has been getting spam trying to sell services and CLE courses which help you use fake AI data to bullshit jurors. It's never phrased that way - it's phrased a lot more like Lemonade's tweets above.)

malewifenat

What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?

.. i’m palestinian

captainlordauditor

same energy

princesskuragina

unscharf-an-den-raendern

definitely-not-lordenglish

catradoraism

star-cats

justpeachit

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shutyourmoustache

As a speech therapist/educator, I’m always trying to find simple techniques/explanations to help little kids process and understand their emotions and then teach them healthy ways to express themselves when they’re angry, frustrated, etc. I notice that telling them I deal with the same difficulties, like wanting to yell when I’m angry, goes a long way. Then they know what they feel isn’t weird BUT there are ways to handle their emotions that don’t hurt themselves or others.

indigenoustiktok

[ID:

We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee by Redbone plays in the background of the Tik Tok.

White text starts at the top of the screen, displaying information. “The song you are hearing was not allowed to be played on U.S radio stations in 1970’s”.

The dancer makes hoops go from Eagle to Earth form.

“It created by a popular Native American band called Redbone and it hit number 1 charts all over Europe.”

“The song raised awareness about what happened at Wounded Knee”

They finish the Earth form, centering themself. “Let’s get it trending”.

Screen switches to the Tik Toker’s name and username, James Jones / @notoriouscree

END]

magicalshadesoflamps

No one’s reblogged this video with versions of the whole song yet, so here’s a spotify link and the youtube video.

guerrillatech

aethelflaedladyofmercia

The fact that this is addressed to the parents, not the kids, is especially creepy?

Anyway, Federal Child Labor Laws: (apply to ALL states)

–Children under 14 (13 for agricultural labor) can only be employed by their own parents/guardians

–14-15 year olds are limited to 3 hours per day, 18 hours per week during the school year (up to 8 hours on weekends/holidays), and 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week when school is not in session.

–They are also limited to working 7am-7pm (or 9pm during the summer), and only outside of school hours

–Only a specific list of jobs are permitted for children of this age (relevant to this, they are allowed to reheat food, wash dishes and equipment, and do some limited cooking/food prep such as washing vegetables). Any work outside this list is prohibited.

–There is also a broad list of jobs/duties they are prohibited from (including any work with ladders, or work with powered meat slicers or several types of powered baking equipment)

–Oh, hey, this is interesting! The federal minimum wage for employees under the age of 20 is $4.25 for the first 90 days they hold a job. I wonder how many days fall between the end of the school year and the start of the next. Oh? Just about 90? What an odd coincidence, that this company would be looking to hire children just before the time of year when they can work (a) later hours (b) more hours per week and © likely to need to stop before they get shifted to the full minimum wage.

(An entirely different set of rules apply to agricultural work, and for working directly for one’s parents or family. There are also some jobs allowed to children under 14. I’m not going into those.)

Now, I’m not opposed to 14 and 15 year olds working appropriate jobs. I babysat at that age, other kids mowed lawns, raked leaves, life guarded at pools, etc.

But there is something a little predatory about this sign, particularly going up now.

And as people have pointed out, kids that age don’t know their rights. They don’t know the laws. And even if they do, they don’t know that the laws are there to *protect* them. I’ve known plenty of teenagers who think they boss is *doing them a favor* by allowing them to work outside their limited hours, or continue working while clocked out for their lunch break. When I worked as a waitress, my manager suggested this as a way to earn extra tips. Heck, I was almost THIRTY, and you wouldn’t believe how many little ways they tried to wriggle around the rules to get a little more work out of me. (Unless you’ve worked this kind of job, then you’d absolutely believe it.)

Another thing–these jobs are *exhausting.* I’ve worked manual labor, I’ve worked in schools, retail, all kinds of jobs, but nothing made me end the day, back throbbing, fling-myself-into-bed tired like working in a restaurant. I don’t know what it is, maybe the hectic pace of the busy hours, maybe the way you’re expected to be busy every second of your time there, maybe it’s the fact that I spent most of each day walking as fast as I could from one end of the building to the other. I don’t know. But I wouldn’t wish that on any 14-year-old.

So, anyway, I’m looking at this little flyer, and I’m concerned. Not because I don’t think a 14-year-old should ever work. But because I’m trying to think why a BK would put out a sign SPECIFICALLY asking for the youngest age they can employ, with NO details suggesting this is a special youth-support or training program, only A FEW WEEKS before summer vacation, and targeted to their PARENTS who, let’s face it, are probably eager to get some time away from the kids after the last year.

Why would any business make this SPECIFIC ad? I don’t know, but every answer I come up with doesn’t sit well with me.

tickety-boo-af

With the current shortage of adults willing to work an exhausting job at a non-living wage, they are looking for anyone else they can exploit. A business should be considered failing if it can’t pay its adult employees enough to get by.

gayngel-posting-deactivated2024

Also relevant: these kids are almost certainly not vaccinated, and its extremely clear they will not be protected, especially as places relax mask mandates. In 2020 being a line cook was the most dangerous job in the country, the conditions that caused that danger haven’t changed. This will get some of these kids killed.