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The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr & the FCC’s news #distortion policy

#FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is taking a hard line against #broadcastTV stations accused of #bias against #Republicans & Pres #Trump. To pressure broadcasters, Carr is invoking the rarely enforced #news distortion policy that was developed starting in the late 1960s & says the FCC should consider revoking #broadcast licenses.
#tv #takedown #freespeech
> #maga definition is disagreement

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr delivers a speech on a stage while standing in front of a microphone and gesturing with his hand.
Ars Technica · The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCC’s news distortion policyBy Jon Brodkin

I am reading a peer-reviewed article that describes a study that featured 5 drivers; 4 male, 1 female. It includes the following analysis:

"It shows that male is more impulsive and daring in operating their vehicles by 22% than a female who is more hesitant and less daring, which is consistent with the physiological nature of women."

Do I reject all further findings or?

A new study finds that people tend to overestimate the size of small demographic groups because of cognitive errors in estimation of small proportions, not necessarily because of misinformation, ignorance, or animus. The authors emphasize that their findings do not negate the existence of those effects.

pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas. (not open access)

Preprint at brianguay.com/files/guay_2024_

Really interesting essay today by Caroline Criado Perez (if you haven’t read her book, Invisible Women, I highly recommend) on why she doesn’t think imposter “syndrome” exists, but rather that women feeling like imposters is a very rational response to a culture that treats women in many roles as imposters. There’s a perfection trap.

open.substack.com/pub/caroline
#women #bias #data

Invisible Women · The Perfection TrapBy Caroline Criado Perez
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"Buried in the messages between National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other cabinet members is a horrible demonstration of narrative engineering.

"While the legacy media fixates on ‘classified information’, the real story is actually not the incompetence of these people but instead how they casually discussed spinning the bombing of Yemen—an already battered and famine-ravaged nation—into a palatable story for the American and global public. Let’s have a look":
thespectaclemag.substack.com/p by Deaglan O'Mulrooney 🧶

the spectacle · how the Empire sells its massacres.By Deaglan O'Mulrooney
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"In terms of racial identity, white Americans have had the choice of being something vague, something unraced and separate from race. A capitalized "White" challenges that freedom, by unmasking Whiteness as an American racial identity as historically important as "Blackness" — which it certainly is."

~ Nell Irvin Painter: wctrib.com/opinion/nell-irvin- via @breton 🧶

WCT.OP.Commentary.jpg
West Central Tribune · Nell Irvin Painter: Why 'White' should be capitalized, tooBy Kelly Boldan

Published at #IRRJ: "On the challenges of studying bias in Recommender Systems: The effect of data characteristics and algorithm configuration" by Savvina Daniil, Manel Slokom, Mirjam Cuper, Cynthia Liem, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, and Laura Hollink. #RecSys #Bias #DataSynthesis #Reproducibility

doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19607

doi.orgOn the challenges of studying bias in Recommender Systems: The effect of data characteristics and algorithm configuration | Information Retrieval Research