Society – Postcards

Driving ‘Assists’

September 5, 2024 No Comments

I drove a car with lane assist once, turned it off sharpish. Either I’m driving, or I’m a passenger. Any other half-way situation is pure shite. There’s no middle ground for driving automation, no happy medium. It’s a binary proposition. It can sound and look like there’s a ‘easier driving’ way, as if you can […]

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Environment Society

Insufferable Heat

March 31, 2023 No Comments

This is bleak: The human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder, wider and sooner than previously believed, according to a study that shows a billion people will either be displaced or forced to endure insufferable heat for every additional 1C rise in the global temperature. In a worst-case scenario of accelerating emissions, areas currently home to a […]

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Big Business Society

It’s not “Woke”, It’s Market Expansion

February 27, 2023 No Comments

David Mitchell has a refreshingly good take on the latest culture kerfuffle: The debate has inevitably focused on whether the publishers have been too “woke” in making these changes. Have they been soft, giving in to snowflakery? Have they betrayed the works of which they are supposed to be custodians? This is missing the point. […]

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Society Technology

ChatGPT CEO – Technology will fix the problems of Technology

January 22, 2023 No Comments

https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chatgpt-ceo-sam-altman-responds-school-plagiarism-concerns-bans-2023-1 Given how popular ChatGPT has become, Altman believes that the world must adapt to generative AI and that technology will improve over time to prevent unintended consequences. “It’s an evolving world,” Altman said. “We’ll all adapt, and I think be better off for it. And we won’t want to go back.” I’m not convinced. […]

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Freedoms Society

“Websites are not similar to telephones”

September 8, 2022 No Comments

Excellently put here by Ryan Broderick: Websites are not similar to telephones. They are not even similar to books or magazines. They are street corners, they are billboards, they are parks, they are shopping malls, they are spaces where people congregate. Just because you cannot see the (hopefully) tens of thousands of other people reading […]

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Health Society

HSE – Harm Reduction in action

September 2, 2022 No Comments

Good to see a harm reduction plan in action from the HSE/Govt/PowersThatBe. Humans have taken drugs since they became human – prohibition does not work. https://www.rte.ie/news/health/2022/0902/1320344-electric-picnic-drugs/

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Equality Gender Society

“We’re working hard to make Lego more inclusive”

October 12, 2021 No Comments

Via The Guardian: Lego has announced it will work to remove gender stereotypes from its toys after a global survey the company commissioned found attitudes to play and future careers remain unequal and restrictive. Researchers found that while girls were becoming more confident and keen to engage in a wide range of activities, the same […]

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Equality Society

Systemic Inequality

May 5, 2021 No Comments

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Society

Oregon becomes first US state to decriminalize possession

December 10, 2020 No Comments

There were (loads) of other ballots taking place alongside the US Presidential election last month, and Oregon approved a good one: The Oregon drug initiative will allow people arrested with small amounts of hard drugs to avoid going to trial, and possible jail time, by paying a $100 fine and attending an addiction recovery program. […]

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Food for Thought Government People Society

Food for Thought

November 14, 2020 No Comments

“Democracy is not something you believe in or a place you hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.” – Abbie Hoffman

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Murf

Driving ‘Assists’

Insufferable Heat

It’s not “Woke”, It’s Market Expansion

ChatGPT CEO – Technology will fix the problems of Technology

“Websites are not similar to telephones”

HSE – Harm Reduction in action

“We’re working hard to make Lego more inclusive”

Systemic Inequality

Oregon becomes first US state to decriminalize possession

Food for Thought

Category: Society