Interesting Links for 20-08-2021

[andrewducker]

AI has the worst superpower… medical racism.

(tags:AI medicine racism )

Never underestimate an old person sending you on a quest

(tags:funny video )

Canadian Nobel scientist's deletion from Wikipedia points to wider bias

(tags:patriarchy Wikipedia )

OnlyFans announces it is bored of making money

The way that payment providers treat sex work is actually one of the best arguments for a need for cryptocurrency
(tags:CrowdFunding porn doom fans business banking sexwork OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )

Operation Choke Point - the US government attempt to cut off banking for services it didn't like

(tags:USA banking OhForFucksSake sexwork )

Skyrim foxes will lead players to treasure. But they were never designed to do so!

(tags:Foxes games design )

Pfizer vaccine effectiveness declines quicker than AstraZeneca (but is still higher)

(tags:vaccine pandemic doom )

How MasterCard and Visa make some kinds of work impossible

(tags:payment sexwork OhForFucksSake usa )

Shiloh and the Angel's Glow: An explanation.

(tags:bacteria history light )

Comments

Evil AI

[channelpenguin]

Yes, evil, given. But... does this mean that self-reported race IS in fact An Objective Thing. Which has been generally regarded as "not" up until now (as far as I understand - I could be woefully ignorant)

[mountainkiss]

If your penultimate article is right then I don't think your fourth headline can be fair?

[dewline]

Items 4, 5 and 8 all being directly or thematically linked...we are looking at a horror story that's been ongoing for generations, since before internet in general was a thing that people could use. Dreamwidth's co-founder - linked via item 8 - has named the factors in play here.

Also, looking at this related item at Vice News, I've been introduced to another acronym: "SWERF".