#data generation and use

[worldstatisticsday]

Part I - Friday Seminar on Emerging Issues: Data Governance - 55th Statistical Commission Side Event.

Morning session: Toward a common understanding of data governance

The aim of this session is to build a common understanding of data governance. Drawing on the experiences and systems, this session will explore current arrangements on coordination and governance of data across systems.

Panel 1: Evolving data governance frameworks (10:00 – 11:15)

Speakers from UN DESA Division of Public Institutions and Digital Governance, OECD Directorate for Public Governance, CCS-UN, country examples and CSO

Panel 2: Data governance, data generation and use (11:30 – 13:00)

Speakers from academia and private sector

[whatbigotspost]

(Source: Instagram)

Gen Z…Have I mentioned lately how much I love you?

[bashfoal]

can't get anything past riker

[tanadrin]

"the lunatic fringe on my opponents' side fundamentally taints their entire movement, which is therefore obviously morally bankrupt and should be ignored. the lunatic fringe on my side is an unrepresentative minority and anybody paying attention to them is a fool/bigot/liar." <- depressingly common pattern. you can't have it both ways!

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

[ovaruling]

on the subject of individual actions, they do matter, which is why men flip out when the measured birth rate stagnates/doesn’t increase or drops. they worry and they get upset and they cry and they scream and they publish articles about how men are in a crisis and it’s all our fault because we are making selfish individual choices that don’t benefit their collective. it adds up. you may not think your individual impact is much, but men as a group, especially men in high places, usually pay a whole lot more attention to the individual choices of women than you might think. and they react. that’s all i’m saying

[aquamonstra]

"Mr. Data, what on earth are you wearing?"

"It is a copy of a costume piece from an old Earth cinematic masterpiece, Captain. I related strongly to one of the main characters, and found his mantra to be very affirming."

"I've already tried to get him to take it off, Captain, but he just handed me one too and said that I'm also Kenough."

"I have replicated copies of the garment for you and Commander Riker as well, Captain."

[torsamors]

“Does [the emotion chip] work?”

“No. I am pleased to say it was damaged when I was forced to fire on Lore.”

“Pleased? Data, you've wanted emotions all your life.”

“Yes. But emotions were responsible for what I did to you. I would never risk letting that happen again. My friendship with you is too important to me.”

[Image ID: 5 images with a quote from @archivistbot overlayed on each image. (1) two images, one of data and his father, with his father holding his face. The next is an image of Troi and Data. Troi is hugging Data from behind. The text reads ‘It’s fine if you don’t know why you’re here, but you will.’ (2) An image of Data and Geordi, from the Descent pt 2. Text: ‘Because love is not simply the absence of hate,’ (3) Two images, one of Data holding hands with Sarjenka as he says goodbye and Data holding hands with Lal. Text: ‘It’s a very’ (4) Two images, one of Data helping Geordi against orders and one of Geordi greeting Data at his ‘funeral’ after being saved. Text: ‘deliberate’ (5) Geordi stopping Data from destroying his emotion chip. Text: ‘act.’ :end ID]

[who-dat-homeless]

Data is agender. She's a boytoy. He's a girlfailure. But most importantly They FUCK

[solradguy]

It's kind of a bummer how a lot of people think otherkin are a 2020s thing when it's been around since at least the 1970s

I'd like you to imagine an Elf [Tolkienesque] in bellbottoms tearing it up at a disco. That is the decade where this all started and it kicks ass

[chauffeurlebon]

forgot to post this here! birthday art for my wife of her favorite silly guy 💕

[doesnotloveyou]

"there are no instructions on how to use tumblr!" and "I've been here for years (joined after 2017) and didn't know this feature existed!"

do some of you just never explore things ever? like you join a site, don't check the TOS, don't check your privacy options, don't check all the settings, never look at your stuff in desktop, and only pay attention when someone makes a post like "omg turn off this feature immediately!" ?

bro. it's your house. know where everything is and what it does, the real estate agent isn't going to hold your hand

and help yourself by following @changes so you'll actually know when tumblr announces every minor change no one notices for a couple weeks until one person screams that their favorite button was moved slightly to the left on mobile

[archiveoftragedies]

The not quite human buddies

[palpunte]

1329.1 "Mudd's Women"

[snoozbar]

humanornot is run by zionists!

while humanornot is more popular over on twitter, i feel it's important to share this here too.

[data-la-forge]

mewhen i finally datapost on main Hey Guys :3

plus some other Digitals i rly like :p