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The shooter in aurora used a smith and wesson M&P 15 Now you can buy the same gun on reddit.
Sigh.
Goddammit.
I have to throw something in here. Because of google’s approach to searching, it doesn’t actually “know” that gay is being used as a slur. It knows that people associate the word gay with a slur. If you were to search for “Bad movies from 2012” you might get a thesaurus of phrases (Worst movies, terrible films, etc)
But this is not an excuse for google. Their algorithm should not just measure how a word is used, but also it would be helpful if the algorithm also searched for how it is SUPPOSED to be used.
Google could for example use a comparison of words in a thesaurus against words that someone put on their blog/website for common vs correct uses. They could then throw out statistically “incorrect” uses of the word and return only results that are both common AND correct.
This is actually a controversial move too though, because then you have a mess of ethics you have to deal with. If google does that then it is letting machines control the language on the web (arguably it already does this to some extent). You are essentially saying that language has a definite and finite length, and that it shouldn’t change. From a human perspective, this is very bad because we form words and language as a way of expressing NEW ideas, Google was not even a word 20 years ago, although Gogol was, we now use it everyday (much to the dismay of the marketing department at Bing).
Having said that, google has plenty of lgbt engineers I’m sure, we should try getting some attention on this so that it can be corrected on a case by case basis.
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Rob Delaney: I have the new Queens of the Stone Age album, …Like Clockwork. It is...
I have the new Queens of the Stone Age album, …Like Clockwork. It is amazing. I won’t “review” it since it’s not out yet and I’m not a music journalist and I don’t know what all the protocol is for stuff like this, but since they played the whole thing for the whole world on NPR the other night,…
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Real life space cat and his pal space calico cat
Space Cat
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