In other news, you're more likely to receive a longer prison sentence if the judge hasn't had lunch yet.

So the assignments on the top of the stack, which were the last to be turned in, received the lowest grades.

That doesn't seem totally unfair.

AI makes artificial bias worse because it has less real bias.

For instance, an AI system used in New York recommended that more blacks than whites be denied bail.

That is artificial bias because blacks are less likely to show up for trial, so if that's the criteria, it isn't "real" bias to deny bail to more of them. It might not be "fair" or the right thing to do, but it isn't "bias". It's a recognition of reality.

The Sunshine policy didn't work. The North Korean government didn't like how it reduced their power. They are more interested in power than in increasing the opportunities for their people. The North Korean government uses aid to increase its power (by controlling its distribution), and rejects aid or connections that it doesn't control.

So the Sunshine policy would work great if it made connection to people at lower levels, but since the North Korean government prevents that, it becomes a means to increase the power of the North Korean government.

The workforce participation rate of immigrants is significantly higher than for the native born.

Real median incomes have increased significantly since 1970.

The best measure of food cost is the hours of earnings needed to afford it. The price of food has declined since 1970.

A military court in a foreign country has tried, found guilty, and sentenced a person who has not been there for committing a crime there, and that crime is that they are the public-facing person of a multinational corporation that allows people to post their thoughts and opinions.

Imagine how many things are wrong with that... and then say "Oh but it couldn't happen in the US" except our elected representatives are working hard to make as many holes in CDA's Section 230 (FOSTA, SEXTA, etc.) so that it really doesn't provide the protections that allow user-generated content based media to thrive. Without Section 230 there would be no FB, IG, YT, X,

Further, organizations that allow UCG responses to their articles (such as Newsweek.com) would turn off all comments to avoid the potential liability. After all, having to pay a fine and fighting it in court is a long way from having to go to Russia to a military prison.

How does this mitigate climate change?

The major input is electricity from the grid.

Singapore generates 92% of its electricity from natural gas and 4% from diesel.

Nothing in TFA indicates this scheme is breakeven or better on CO2 emissions.

Microsoft donates mostly to Democrats.

The big exception (and biggest single recipient) is Republican Doug Burgum for governor of North Dakota.

Microsoft political donations

Thousands of Chinese EVs have been sold in the EU, where they meet safety standards that are just as rigorous as American standards.

Indeed. American rare earth mining was killed by silly environmental regulations.

The result was that it shifted to China where the mining and processing is far dirtier.

They were caught off guard again by Tesla.

Those are not a substitute for quality products.

"Slavery" means forced labor. It does not mean "paid market wages".

Can Chinese autoworkers quit their jobs? Yes, they can, and every factory in Shenzhen is hiring, so they can find a new job by walking across the street.

Are Chinese factory workers underpaid? That depends on your perspective, but their wages are above the median wage in China and are enough to afford an apartment and a scooter.

Every change looks like corruption in the eyes of people who don't like it.

And corruption looks like evolution to some people.

Personally, I'm in favor of words meaning as much of the same thing over time as possible. It enhances communication and understanding. If you need a new meaning, you either need a new word or you need to explain yourself at a bit more length. Lest you "decimate" (cough) the listener's/reader's understanding... you get me?

They keep renaming the company, but it's still the same old Qwest, now Lumen, formerly Mountain Bell all outsourcing E911 services and all going down in 4-14 states MANY times in the last ten years.

This is nothing new, and has nothing to do with a "light pole" or a "fiber optic cut."

Each time they get a free pass and do nothing to fix the problem. They have outsourced crucial emergency response services to remote datacenters that are not redundant, not given E911 data (address and callback# of caller) and no modern logging capability (as in who called in when for how long, how long on hold, etc.)

Lumen (that's Qwest''s new name) is the same piece of shit southwest US network operator that's been flailing for decades.

End of story.