People didn't vote for trump because they were afraid of kamala.

People _didn't_ vote for kamala because shes a milquetoast unqualified candidate that represents a party that has lost touch with it's base. It turns out, "just vote (for whoever we decide on at the dnc)." Is not a viable strategy.

Imagine if you had a strawman so full of straw, it was the most strawfilled man that ever existed.

From the article:

> “What is clear is that it’s going to be really difficult to mitigate these biases,” says Judy Gichoya, an interventional radiologist and informatician at Emory University who was not involved in the study. Instead, she advocates for smaller, but more diverse data sets that test these AI models to identify their flaws and correct them on a small scale first. Even so, “Humans have to be in the loop,” she says. “AI can’t be left on its own.”

What do you think smaller data sets would do to a model? It'll get rid of disparity sure

It is a hypothetical example not a strawman.

Could you expand on the trust bit? I recently switched to Brave due to it being the best as blocking adds and fingerprinting.

What am I missing that I should be considering?

What does this comment practically add to the discourse of curiosity?

I gave up on the piece after a bit. It's purposefully and painfully obtuse and has far too much misdirection that serves no real purpose:

     SOMEHOW MY FATHER CONVINCED MY mother to squander a date night and watch David Lynch’s Dune when it was in the theaters in 1984. I was seven; my sister, five. When we asked about the movie, my mother or my father or both—they may’ve coordinated their anecdote—told me they knew they were in trouble when the theater manager handed out to everyone in the audience a one-sheet that attempted to explain the intricacies of the film’s logic.

     Now I am the theater manager. What’s worse, the production I hope to untangle is my own.

     So:

   In 1977, George Lucas released Star Wars. In 1980, he released a sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, and, in 1983, another sequel, Return of the Jedi. During Jedi’s production, and even after its release, Jedi was often referred to as Star Wars III. This is not to be confused with Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith, a Star Wars prequel released in 2005. Also, until the end of 1982, Return of the Jedi was titled Revenge of the Jedi. This is not to be confused with Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith.

     And:

   I write about two directors named David. David Lynch, who wrote and directed Blue Velvet and co-created/directed Twin Peaks, and David Cronenberg, who wrote and directed Videodrome and the 1986 remake of The Fly. I don’t mean for this to be confusing.

   And:

  Two excerpts from the screenplay for David Lynch’s Revenge of the Jedi appear in this essay. The first begins, “INTERIOR: DEATH STAR—MAIN DOCKING BAY”; the second begins, “INTERIOR: JABBA’S PALACE—HALLWAY.”

   Okay. Let’s begin.

This, to me, is not an enjoyable read.

There are far too many attention sinks in the world, and unfortunately we're only alive for a geologically infinitesimal instant.

These are film wonks doing film wonk things. It's ok if that's not interesting to you. Just like how they probably wouldn't be interested in a detailed story about the creation of a certain programming language.

Inventing details of film history and attributing fanfic to the subject is not what I would consider typical "film wonk things."

I'm happy to see the decline of the self-indulgent, cognoscente literary tradition.

I love words and language and reading, but rarely is expository writing the correct place for word orgies.

That's an optimistic take unfortunately. From what I can see, the attempt is going tremendously well.

We'll have to see how brazen the trump admin really is prepared to be here. If they are all in, they'll ignore the courts and the doj will do nothing about it. Which has already been telegraphed.

From what ive seen, The feds are saying "hold the line" mostly to cope with the situation. If this admin wants to retire them, they will. Its hard to hold the line when your access is shut off and your paycheck stops coming in.

It's not a great situation. We're basically just sitting and waiting to see how much this administration is bluffing, with no reasonable answer for what to do if they are not -- in fact -- bluffing.

When they start ignoring the courts... what next? Do we hope the military intervenes?

6% of Feds retire annually. 2.5% or so gave taken the offer. This is not wide success.

I agree, the blitzkrieg on democracy really needs to stop. Per doge goals, doge is highly inefficient and lacking oversight.

In the 90s, Clinton did something similar and wasn't seen as a blitzkrieg on democracy.

I think we can both agree Clinton was neither trying to rob the government blind nor bypassing Congress completely in taking over and shuttering independent agencies. Nor was he implementing Yarvin's vision for RAGE as step 2 towards the Dark Enlightenment.

We'll see

I use a combo of in-browser ad blocking and dns level blocking. It seems to be very effective while on the home network.

Ive been waffling with setting up a vpn so i can tunnel through my home network and apply dns filtering everywhere.

Another thing I've been wondering about -- which i recognize is extreme -- is setting up a mitm proxy on my home network to strip 3p cookies out of all requests. But im not sure if I'll ever do that.

One side effect of this setup is that cloudflare seems to need to confirm that I'm a human a lot.

No.