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Yöli & Otis - Byron Bay, Bali

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Musk asks for feedback, leading to the thread above. Afterwards:

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Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Brilliantly Mimics Mick Jagger in the Rolling Stones Video for ‘Start Me Up’

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Electra tide in blue, Jamen Percy

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Stay weird tumblr.

anyway blackout poetry not just as an art form, but as an act of violence against other works of art

taking a piece of text that someone probably put their heart and soul into creating and using it as your raw material, cutting out everything that you deem irrelevant to the point you want to make

i mean imagine cutting up a painting and using it to make a collage, or taking a marble sculpture and carving pieces out of it to make a different sculpture

just to be clear: i love blackout poetry, im not criticizing it here. i am just waxing poetic about it. i dont really know where im going with this i just have Thoughts about art being destructive

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A stunning example of cloud iridescence, caused by small ice crystals scattering the sun's rays, filmed in Narathiwat, Thailand.

Credit: Orawan Thongchinda

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““It is important that we recognise that screens are a modern way of being,” he said. “Reading we see as a hugely positive thing, but it is largely a sedentary thing. We have never done studies to look at the link between reading and adiposity [being overweight] but it is sedentary [lifestyle]. Five hundred years ago we thought it was bad for women’s brains to teach them to read. Reading and pamphlets have radicalised a lot more young people than screens have ever done. Yet we somehow worry about screens being different.””

— Screen time not intrinsically bad for children, say doctors

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The team had been building computer programs since 2014 to review job applicants’ resumes with the aim of mechanizing the search for top talent, five people familiar with the effort told Reuters.

Automation has been key to Amazon’s e-commerce dominance, be it inside warehouses or driving pricing decisions. The company’s experimental hiring tool used artificial intelligence to give job candidates scores ranging from one to five stars - much like shoppers rate products on Amazon, some of the people said.

“Everyone wanted this holy grail,” one of the people said. “They literally wanted it to be an engine where I’m going to give you 100 resumes, it will spit out the top five, and we’ll hire those.”

But by 2015, the company realized its new system was not rating candidates for software developer jobs and other technical posts in a gender-neutral way.

That is because Amazon’s computer models were trained to vet applicants by observing patterns in resumes submitted to the company over a 10-year period. Most came from men, a reflection of male dominance across the tech industry.

In effect, Amazon’s system taught itself that male candidates were preferable. It penalized resumes that included the word “women’s,” as in “women’s chess club captain.” And it downgraded graduates of two all-women’s colleges, according to people familiar with the matter. They did not specify the names of the schools.

via @iamdanw

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‘A Star Is Born’ Continues To Hit High Notes At The B.O.: Clears $100M In 12 Days

When a major studio’s awards contender shoots past the century mark this early in the fall, it’s something to celebrate and Warner Bros.

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AMC Theatres’ New Movie Ticket Subscription Program Counts 175K Members As MoviePass Struggles

As MoviePass struggles to stay alive with its monthly movie ticket subscription program, AMC Theatres is just getting theirs started. The No.

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Let go of the salt

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This Teacher Used The “American Chopper” Meme For His Lesson Plan And It Turned Out Great

Matthew Chovanec is a teacher at University of Texas, where one of his classes is about the rhetoric of Islam in America.

Last week he gave his students their first quiz on Sadakat Kadri’s history of Shari'a law. The subject can be pretty dense, especially for students with no background in Islamic terminology, Chovanec told BuzzFeed News. He knew his students were “stressed” about the test.

“So the chopper meme was sort of the logical conclusion” Chovanec said.

All of the results were wonderful.