tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post660742143523128651..comments2024-03-29T03:15:56.828-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: A Presumption Of Guiltreality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-81815217228791476852013-07-16T17:10:12.187-04:002013-07-16T17:10:12.187-04:00They don;t even care who they're killing, so l...They don;t even care who they're killing, so long as they're brown and Muslim. Ironic that Obama is running this program. Or maybe not so ironic. I think it was Frank Rich who said Obama is most comfortable surrounded by rich white guys...reality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-84005741835470394612013-07-16T15:16:34.641-04:002013-07-16T15:16:34.641-04:00Here is related context. The New York Times book r...Here is related context. The New York Times book review of "Big Data: A Revolution that will transform how we live, work, and think" includes the following chilling sentences:<br /><br />Already, insurance companies and parole boards use predictive analytics to help tabulate risk, and a growing number of places in the United States, the authors of “Big Data” say, employ “predictive policing,” crunching data “to select what streets, groups and individuals to subject to extra scrutiny, simply because an algorithm pointed to them as more likely to commit crime.”<br /><br />Last week an NBC report noted that in so-called signature drone strikes “the C.I.A. doesn’t necessarily know who it is<br />killing”: in signature strikes “intelligence officers and drone operators kill suspects based on their patterns of behavior — but without positive identification.”<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com