July, 2018 archive
The Rally Crasher 0
(Typo fixed.)
Farcical Recognition 0
Remember, much of the tech stuff you see on your telly vision is not forensic science, but rather forensic science fiction. In real life, when it doesn’t work as expected, the repercussions can be devastating, if not fatal, to the mis-recognized. For example:
More accurately, the 28 members of Congress were falsely matched with mugshots from the 25,000 publicly-available arrest photos (the ACLU did not specify where it got the photos). (Though Lewis was, in fact, arrested during civil rights protests in the 1960s, the ACLU’s blog post on the test implied these photos were not part of their test.)
Eleven of the falsely identified Congresspeople were people of color, 40 percent of the erroneous matches, despite people of color making up less than 30 percent of Congress.
Much more at the link.
Legal Weasels 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
Trolls and Polls 0
Thom and Joe Madison discuss Republicans’ trollish behavior.
Cult Cargo 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jeremy Sherman explores the fascination of cults, focusing on the Cult of Trump. A snippet (emphasis added):
Cults come in all ideological flavors – left, right, religious, spiritual, philosophical. What they have in common is that deck of fake trump cards, cheap-trick ploys for feigning infallibility, invincibility, and unassailability so members can make everyone else wrong for not agreeing with them.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
The Trumpling meets “An Armed Society Is a Polite Society.”
Police confirmed the shooter made the racist comments at the black man, Jerrell Douglas, who Chad Merrill was defending and possibly knew as a regular in the bar.
Disgusting details at the link.
