#What is data ethics

[techsoulculture]

Ethics in Big Data Analytics : Balancing Privacy 2023

In the contemporary digital era, Big Data Analytics has emerged as a revolutionary tool, enabling organizations to extract

[ganondoodle]

the company i work for decided that its switching from the german formal "You"(Sie) to the informal "you" (Du) in all of our websites so now we have to scour the entire database to change it and i quite frankly hate that, not just bc the unecessary extra work but especially bc its such a weird and unecessary change

i bet its bc everything here is getting englishfied (both literally and culturally it feels like, when my new boss talks its half in english bc every second german word is just replaced by an english one despite there being perfectly fine words for it in german too, its so annoying) and bc they want to sound more personal in hopes of getting more clients bc 'company is your fwiend uwu!!', i know this here is the amercian tm site so you wouldnt understand really but i do not want to be greeted with 'du' by companies, no, thats too personal, you dont know me and im not giving you my data, stay away!!

i guess thats how i would describe it .. the formal you is like a polite distance, like someone you dont know staying outside your personal space, but when its the informal 'you' it feels invasive unless i told you you can call me that, and that goes double for companies

maybe its a small thing that doesnt seem important but i cant stand it, im just a little part time worker doing data work so i got no say in it but the companies founder also announced hes giving his post to his kids some time ago so ...... since then theres been alot of changes and new projects that solely aim to imitate whats popular and whats done by other companies, despite ours being one that is, or used to be, intentionally different, like, that was the POINT, but i guess chasing trends is just too appealing for CEOs

[darkwood-sleddog]

you know i think it's really funny (derogatory) that tumblr seemingly has the ability to create popups for ad-free, crabs, anything that will get them money, but when it comes to using popups to guide new users around the website layout they're just like "uww what can we POSSIBLY do?? all these new people only know twitter and they couldn't possibly read a popup explaining how to use the site!! let's just change everything visually appealing about tumblr to cater to our inability to make popups for helpful reasons uwu!!".

like you know what i want? If you're testing a change on me I want a pop up that says so. I don't want to have to rely on the @changes blog to see that. If i'm testing a change I should be given a feedback form that is specifically about that change. I want the results of the feedback forms for changes to be publicly viewable to the userbase. you could learn so much about how this website actually functions for users through that, but no. we can only make popups when it fiscally benefits us! we can't use polls to get a sense of what the userbase is feeling! we can't publicize what % of feedback about a change was positive or negative. we couldn't...possibly...

[waru-chan8]

I just heard a great take that none of us has considered yet about Lucas move to Honda. If it goes bad (as it will probably happen) he can always return to Vale's team. He has nothing to lose and if goes well he will be credited as the one who took Honda back to his glory.

It's actually a win situation for him

[size-two-shrimp]

I loooooove trying to find a picture of a certain fish's fins because they're so hard to see and multiple images are both AI generated and completely fucking wrong!

[gothteddiesdotcom]

seems like my company is actively looking into some form of LLM AI to inject into our software to work with the financial advisors and I so badly want to kill myself

[alxfsl]

Apparently Matt is not trustworthy as I thought

[midnightactual]

to talk about AI in art more specifically, I think in so far as AI has any legitimate use in art, it's exclusively as an artistic aid. if you generate an AI image of a character, then draw on top of it using it as a loose reference (I'm not talking about tracing here), that's not really any different than using any other photo reference or inspiration. if you feed all of a character's dialogue to an AI, then have it crosscheck versus dialogue you wrote for them and make adjustments to your writing (I'm not talking about copying and pasting here), that's not really any different than having someone beta-read for voice or doing it manually yourself. it can be an effective tool for doing very specific and technical things faster and thus developing a better personal artistic intuition for them. it's acceptable as training wheels, like spellcheck but much more sophisticated

what is broadly unacceptable is to just let AI generate something and release it into the wild as-is or edited. AI making your life easier or giving you more confidence in making your art is fine. using AI to substitute for and try and shortcut the artistic process is not

[thisplainsimplefeeling]

more people should watch star trek

[liesonthefloordramatically]

filling out IRB paperwork is truly a layer of hell

[byakuyasdarling]

I think a good thing about being away from social media though is just caring so much less about all the internet argument stuff. It’s so much less stressful just focusing on me and my health and the people close to me.

Especially with AI stuff. Of course I don’t agree with it scraping from artists but I love when artists reclaim it as a tool and I think it should be used as such. You can’t stop a program from existing, it’s useless. But you can make guidelines to ensure it’s uses are ethical and practical — basically to make jobs easier and not over-work artists, not to replace them.

I think there’s so much to still work-out in that regard, obviously.

Another thing that used to stress me out was those “press 3 buttons to save my pet” videos. I always try to do the copy link think and get interactions up but it started triggering me my anxiety which wasn’t good. Have you guys experienced that, and how did you deal with it? /gen

[penwrythe]

Well

Looks like I might have a job soon, unfortunately not art related. It is a data analyst job for refining search results and maps in search engines. I found it through the RatRaceRebellion. The job is unfortunately related to AI, but for refining online search engines through thorough research.

Please know I'm still not in support of GenAI. Just as a tool it's fine, so if its for helping a user on a search engine, okay. Currently, jobs are hard to find now and this one is willing to pick me up. For now, this will have to do until I find something better.

I'll still keep searching for better jobs not related to this. For now, this will keep me afloat a little once I finished the exams for it.

[thebeckybear]

10,000 words into my PhD, with what I thought was a clear define method, questions, aims and strategies.

Only for my supervisors to tell me it's not good.

[catchexperts]

Web Scraping 101: Everything You Need to Know in 2025

🕸️ What Is Web Scraping? An Introduction

Web scraping—also referred to as web data extraction—is the process of collecting structured information from websites using automated scripts or tools. Initially driven by simple scripts, it has now evolved into a core component of modern data strategies for competitive research, price monitoring, SEO, market intelligence, and more.

If you’re wondering “What is the introduction of web scraping?” — it’s this: the ability to turn unstructured web content into organized datasets businesses can use to make smarter, faster decisions.

💡 What Is Web Scraping Used For?

Businesses and developers alike use web scraping to:

Monitor competitors’ pricing and SEO rankings

Extract leads from directories or online marketplaces

Track product listings, reviews, and inventory

Aggregate news, blogs, and social content for trend analysis

Fuel AI models with large datasets from the open web

Whether it’s web scraping using Python, browser-based tools, or cloud APIs, the use cases are growing fast across marketing, research, and automation.

🔍 Examples of Web Scraping in Action

What is an example of web scraping?

A real estate firm scrapes listing data (price, location, features) from property websites to build a market dashboard.

An eCommerce brand scrapes competitor prices daily to adjust its own pricing in real time.

A SaaS company uses BeautifulSoup in Python to extract product reviews and social proof for sentiment analysis.

For many, web scraping is the first step in automating decision-making and building data pipelines for BI platforms.

⚖️ Is Web Scraping Legal?

Yes—if done ethically and responsibly. While scraping public data is legal in many jurisdictions, scraping private, gated, or copyrighted content can lead to violations.

To stay compliant:

Respect robots.txt rules

Avoid scraping personal or sensitive data

Prefer API access where possible

Follow website terms of service

If you’re wondering “Is web scraping legal?”—the answer lies in how you scrape and what you scrape.

🧠 Web Scraping with Python: Tools & Libraries

What is web scraping in Python? Python is the most popular language for scraping because of its ease of use and strong ecosystem.

Popular Python libraries for web scraping include:

BeautifulSoup – simple and effective for HTML parsing

Requests – handles HTTP requests

Selenium – ideal for dynamic JavaScript-heavy pages

Scrapy – robust framework for large-scale scraping projects

Puppeteer (via Node.js) – for advanced browser emulation

These tools are often used in tutorials like “Web scraping using Python BeautifulSoup” or “Python web scraping library for beginners.”

⚙️ DIY vs. Managed Web Scraping

You can choose between:

DIY scraping: Full control, requires dev resources

Managed scraping: Outsourced to experts, ideal for scale or non-technical teams

Use managed scraping services for large-scale needs, or build Python-based scrapers for targeted projects using frameworks and libraries mentioned above.

🚧 Challenges in Web Scraping (and How to Overcome Them)

Modern websites often include:

JavaScript rendering

CAPTCHA protection

Rate limiting and dynamic loading

To solve this:

Use rotating proxies

Implement headless browsers like Selenium

Leverage AI-powered scraping for content variation and structure detection

Deploy scrapers on cloud platforms using containers (e.g., Docker + AWS)

🔐 Ethical and Legal Best Practices

Scraping must balance business innovation with user privacy and legal integrity. Ethical scraping includes:

Minimal server load

Clear attribution

Honoring opt-out mechanisms

This ensures long-term scalability and compliance for enterprise-grade web scraping systems.

🔮 The Future of Web Scraping

As demand for real-time analytics and AI training data grows, scraping is becoming:

Smarter (AI-enhanced)

Faster (real-time extraction)

Scalable (cloud-native deployments)

From developers using BeautifulSoup or Scrapy, to businesses leveraging API-fed dashboards, web scraping is central to turning online information into strategic insights.

📘 Summary: Web Scraping 101 in 2025

Web scraping in 2025 is the automated collection of website data, widely used for SEO monitoring, price tracking, lead generation, and competitive research. It relies on powerful tools like BeautifulSoup, Selenium, and Scrapy, especially within Python environments. While scraping publicly available data is generally legal, it's crucial to follow website terms of service and ethical guidelines to avoid compliance issues. Despite challenges like dynamic content and anti-scraping defenses, the use of AI and cloud-based infrastructure is making web scraping smarter, faster, and more scalable than ever—transforming it into a cornerstone of modern data strategies.

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[edgythoughts]

What If Time Was a Physical Substance 2025

What If Time Was a Physical Substance 2025

Imagine waking up in a world where time isn’t just something that passes — it’s something you can touch, bottle, and maybe even reshape. What if time was no longer an invisible force but a tangible substance with weight, color, and texture? In 2025, with rapid advances in quantum physics and metaphysical speculation, the concept of time as a physical substance is more fascinating — and hypothetically compelling — than ever before. In this exploration, we’ll dive deep into what it would mean if time were physical, how it might be manipulated, and what consequences such a reality could bring for humanity, physics, and even personal existence. Reimagining Time as a Tangible Entity Currently, time is one of the four dimensions of space-time, defined and measured but never physically touched. However, if time were a material substance — let’s say like water, gas, or light — it would drastically change how we understand everything from movement and aging to causality and energy. This shift would alter not only physics but also philosophy. We'd stop seeing time as a background stage on which events play out, and instead see it as a participant in those events. It could be mined, harvested, shaped, or stored. But how could such a concept exist in practice? Physical Properties of Time: What Might It Look Like? If we treat time as a substance, we must define its properties. Would it be a fluid, something you could pour? Or a gas, drifting invisibly but collectable with the right equipment? Could time exist in solid form — perhaps as crystal-like units, each representing a fixed moment? Some speculative physicists and science fiction writers imagine time as a luminous fluid that flows through space, while others picture it as a “fog” that thickens or thins depending on the gravitational field. In that view, being in a high-gravity area might feel like swimming through molasses-like time — movements slow, thought processes dragged. In contrast, low-gravity zones might feel like surfing a fast, lightweight stream of time. Such interpretations could help us physically explain phenomena like time dilation or time loops using substance-based analogies. Manipulating Time: Could We Build Time Machines? One of the most exciting possibilities in a world where time is physical is that it could be manipulated. If time were a harvestable or controllable resource, we might create technologies that allow us to speed it up, slow it down, or reverse it — not just metaphorically, but literally. Time machines would move beyond theory. Instead of warping space-time through gravity or velocity (as current theories suggest), we could invent “time engines” that displace or burn the physical substance of time to navigate through temporal dimensions. This concept may sound fantastical, but if time could be shaped or molded like clay, then moving to the past or future could become a question of applying force to that substance. Impacts on Daily Life and Human Experience A world where time is a substance would affect every part of human life: - Aging could be reversed or halted by slowing or isolating your personal “time field.” - People might store time in capsules to save moments for later or sell hours like currency. - Hospitals could give “time infusions” to patients to speed up healing. - Artists might sculpt with time to create living, moving works that evolve over weeks or centuries. This would also raise moral and ethical questions. Would the wealthy hoard time? Would stealing someone’s time be like robbing them of life itself? Could prisons stretch time to make a one-year sentence feel like 100? Scientific Parallels: Is There Any Basis? Although time isn't a substance according to current science, some advanced theories hint at related ideas. For instance, the block universe theory suggests that past, present, and future all exist simultaneously — as if they are laid out across space. Similarly, loop quantum gravity proposes that space and time are quantized at the smallest scale, made up of discrete units rather than being smooth and continuous. These approaches, while not stating that time is material, point toward a deeper structure — one that could theoretically behave in substance-like ways under extreme conditions, such as near a black hole or during the earliest moments of the universe.

Time Economics: Would We Spend, Save, or Trade It? The concept of time as a physical object opens up a new economy. Imagine a world where hours are traded like money, and days can be banked or borrowed. People might wear “temporal meters” on their wrists to monitor how much time they have left — a literal countdown to their end. Poorer communities might suffer from “temporal poverty,” experiencing days at half speed compared to the privileged. This would create an entirely new form of inequality, measured not by wealth or location, but by temporal access. We could even see a black market for smuggled time, stolen from other people or extracted from future timelines. The Consequences of Time Pollution or Misuse If time can be handled like a substance, it can also be contaminated, leaked, or corrupted. What would “time pollution” look like? Perhaps zones where time malfunctions — memories overlap, people age irregularly, or physical laws break down. Cities may implement time sanitation protocols, and accidents involving “time spills” could lead to chronal disorientation or even entire days looping indefinitely. This opens up a new field of “chronal engineering,” with experts who regulate and fix damaged time systems, much like IT technicians do with digital data today. Social and Psychological Impacts The human mind is built to perceive time linearly — birth to death, cause to effect. But in a world where time can be bent, twisted, and shaped, that sense could shatter. People might become lost in infinite loops of nostalgia. Others might skip through weeks at a time, blurring relationships and memory. Society could fracture between those who live at normal pace and those who manipulate time to slow their experience — living lifetimes in a single afternoon. This could also spark a rise in new religions or spiritual movements centered on mastering or respecting the flow of time as a sacred resource. Could We Ever Return to “Normal” Time? Once time becomes physical, could we ever go back to perceiving it as abstract? Probably not. Just like our concept of space forever changed after Einstein, a tangible time would permanently alter our view of existence. If everyone had control over their own personal time flow, collective experiences — watching a movie together, aging together, going to school in sync — might disappear. Society could become fragmented, like passengers on separate tracks, each hurtling through their own individualized chronologies. Final Thought: The Power and Peril of Tangible Time Making time a substance would empower us beyond imagination — healing wounds, extending life, even rewriting history. But it would also introduce dangers we've never faced: temporal inequality, timeline corruption, and existential breakdown. This speculative idea makes us reflect not just on the possibilities of future physics but also on how we value our minutes, our memories, and our shared journey through time. — 📚 Related Reading from Our Blogs: - What If Dreams Could Be Recorded and Played Back 2025 https://edgythoughts.com/what-if-dreams-could-be-recorded-and-played-back-2025 - What If We Found Proof of a Multiverse 2025 https://edgythoughts.com/what-if-we-found-proof-of-a-multiverse-2025 🔗 External Resource: You can read more about time as a physical quantity in the context of theoretical physics here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_physics Read the full article

[meelsport]

How AI is Revolutionizing Voice Search Technology

The Hidden Link Between AI Voice Search and SEO: What You Need to Know AI-powered voice search is revolutionizing how users interact with technology, turning searches into seamless, conversational experiences.

Voice search is transforming how we interact with technology, turning searches into effortless conversations. No more typing—just speak to your device, and AI does the rest. In this blog, we’ll explore the evolution of voice search. We’ll discuss how AI powers it and why businesses must adapt to stay competitive. The Evolution of AI Voice Search Technology AI voice search technology has come a…