Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says a white-supremacy ad the company showed users was a ‘mistake’

Best case against censorship ever: You never have to apologize for NOT censoring something SOMEONE felt was objectionable.
It’s so much easier to give users the tools to block what they don’t want to see…then it’s THEIR fault if they see something they don’t want to see…or NOT see something they WANTED to see because it was CENSORED.

Twitter should not have to apologize for something that someone else published using their network. Their responsibility should stop RIGHT AFTER they give users the tools to see what they want, when they want.
Respectfully, recode…it’s NOT Twitter’s fucking job to stop hate speech.

http://on.recode.net/2fJT8E6

Police are using software to predict crime. Is it a ‘holy grail’ or biased against minorities?

I have not reviewed the code (nor do i anticipate having the opportunity to do so any time soon), but I would state with 99% certainty that any system designed to
“predict” future crimes based on historic data, would be biased. Most of the people in jail are people of color, so most of the “suspects” of any system based on past crime data would be people of color. This one gets a big huge #DUH.

http://wapo.st/2g1t4qM

The internet is puzzled over how to rescue these doomed plates

Looks easy enough to me. Break a pane of glass close to, but not touching any bowls/plates. Then reach in with both hands (or more) and start shoving bowls and plates back onto the shelf. You may not get them all, but you can probably keep MOST of them from crashing to the floor. Then, replace the pane of glass.

http://on.mash.to/2eKk0XN