Via Drudge: Google revealed in a blog post that it is now using machine learning to document "hate crimes and events" in America.
In the announcement, Simon Rogers, data editor of Google News Labs, wrote:
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Now, with ProPublica, we are launching a new machine learning tool to help journalists covering hate news leverage this data in their reporting.On the surface, this looks rather innocuous. It's presented by Google as an attempt to create a database of hate crimes — information that should be available with a quick Google search, it should be noted. But a quick glance at the list of partners for this project should raise some red flags...
The Documenting Hate News Index — built by the Google News Lab, data visualization studio Pitch Interactive and ProPublica — takes a raw feed of Google News articles from the past six months and uses the Google Cloud Natural Language API to create a visual tool to help reporters find news happening across the country. It’s a constantly-updating snapshot of data from this year, one which is valuable as a starting point to reporting on this area of news....
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6 comments:
Google got a head start tracking Chinese who hate the Chinese government.
To ask the question is to answer it.
Yeah, what's a "Hate crime"? And who's determining whether its "hate" or just a "Crime".
The boobs will lap it all up, of course.
Aren't we all against "hate"?
Yes. They are.
But, Men and Women, Lem's comonocreerendios readers, be of good cheer for all is well.
This propensity, this ineluctable force, that first accepts liberalism for righteous reasons and then infects American institutions like a virus, all American institutions, and then grows within them like cancer, and then makes itself exclusive by the means identified as McCarthyism, that they do see everywhere outside of themselves but never within themselves, carries with them the seeds of their own destruction. Even when that means the destruction of the infected and diseased institutions. There are already calls for anti-monopoly legal action. If they cannot bring themselves to halt their self-destructive activities, and they cannot, then they will be broken up. Youidon't even have to worry about it. Because others much more worked up about this and with much more at stake than yourselves and with much more to lose are all activated well before you are. This is already being sorted.
So let's bring it all down and talk about something else. Say, something closer to home. Something, anything, that protects your precious tender loving souls. Something a lot sillier.
*thinks*
There I was watching fantasy on television and being annoyed as piss by two things. British accents that get on my nerves so badly I turn it to mute and read subtitles instead for very long stretches. I have periods where I think, "If I hear one more Goddamn "hot" for heart I'm going to blow up England in my mind!. And the other thing is entire tranches of actors, half a vast cast, whispering their lines instead of reading them full-voiced. I mock them. I whisper-voice my own ridiculing dialogue back to them and make myself sound perfectly retarded by completely displacing my R's, leaving them off where required and sticking them in intrusively in all the wrong places, and substituting glottal stops for important consonants all over the place and voice modulation so quiet that there's little point in speaking at all, until I cannot stand my own self any longer and yell full throated to the empty room, "MODULATE PRESSURIZED AIR THROUGH THE VOCAL FOLDS OF YOUR FUCKING LARYNXES, YOU CUNTS!"
The central characters in Storybook on Netflix change as the writers run through a large number of storybook tales, myths, and legends, classic and contemporary, blending them from one to another. It's interesting for that and annoying as hell for other reasons. It's running mostly as background.
Presently a central figure is Nimue, pronounced nim-you-way. Although a popular character in historic storybook legends and in modern animation, with songs and everything, somehow I managed to avoid learning about this character until now.
I love the internet.
It told me who this character is supposed to be right away.
I felt I got a little incrementally smarter about irrelevancies like *boink* instantly, just like that. This might come in handy answering a crossword clue one day. Who knows? It could happen.
But where did I hear this before?
I did hear this before.
For the life of me I could not place the the sound of the name.
While continuing watching the show and being annoyed all up and down my brain kept running in the background, like a subroutine, over and over I hear Nimue, Nimue, Nimue.
Then it changed to A Nimue, a nimue, a nimue.
I can hear it as a song.
An old rock song.
It is a chorus to an old rock song. What are the rest of the words, come on, come on, get the words, get the words, get the title.
I hate the internet.
Sometimes it's perfectly useless in finding an answer.
My searches for the song all turn up empty. I keep getting irrelevant results to my irrelevant search. I'm trying to ease my mind, to find conclusion so the subroutine can cease. It's bothering me.
Then suddenly POW it hits me. I search [lion sleeps tonight] And there it is. Big as shit right at the top. A block of text that shuts down the mental subroutine instantly.
I love the internet.
A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh
A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh
A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh
A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh.
Before I knew it, it was 1984!
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