#murdoch feeder

[003soy]

#my art #splatbands #splatoon #splatband #splatoon bands #bottom feeders #Finn feeder #Finn bottom #muruta bottom #Murdoch feeder #bad time to post but whatever #I love posting as soon as I finish sorry

[cephalocrow]

Draw Murdoch/Muruta Feeder/Bottom he gets no fanart

Drew a small comic, i love Murdoch.....

#splatbands #splatoon #art tag #fin bottom #finn feeder #murdoch feeder #muruta bottom #tangle feeder #tangle bottom #bottom feeders #splatband #fin speaks with a scottish accent btw i tried my best

[splatoon-character-of-all-time]

Round 1 Side B Match 11: Who's the best character?

#tangle feeder #murdoch feeder #bottom feeders #splatbands #round 1 #who's the best character

[rockinmusicquarterly]

i think i would like the name bertie more if they kept the "bottom" surname. bertie bottom

#splatbands #although it doesnt roll off the tongue as well w names like murdoch #but who the fuck is tangle feeder

[hotlantis-regular]

Splatoon Music Catalogue Volume 8: Bottom Feeders

A Celtic Rock Band comprised of 5 members that hail from up north, and constantly change their label depending on how they feel. Yeah this band’s very dysfunctional, often close to breaking up several times. 

To lighten the mood before we cover the members, here’s a fun fact: They participated in a battle of the bands against Ink Theory at the Zapp venue.

The band’s members are:

Finn Feeder on Fiddle(who is often the source of these near break ups, and shows aggressive behavior towards the vocalist, Tangle Feeder)

Tangle Feeder on vocals(who up until recently was never aware of where his voice was actually coming from, on account of his seaweed body)

Murdoch Feeder on drums(who loves having fun with the band and cute girls)

Jawn Feeder(who is similar to Murdoch and’s fine with anything as long as they’re having a good time)

And Bertie Feeder on drums(Who is in a Rainmaker team with Kuze from Hightide Era and Ryu Chang from Sashimori, and also has a daughter that he is the sole caretaker of, best of luck in the future Bertie)

My favorite song of theirs would have to be Shipwreckin’, it’s easily their best(as usual it’s in my Turf War playlist).

Goodbye for now, see you all next catalogue!

#splatoon #splatoon 3 #splatband #splatbands #bottom feeders

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The Story So Far

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The Death of Monsters pt 3

Rahila didn’t know why she’d been called out here. She didn’t particularly like the Master or his harem. It seemed so frivolous and superficial with him. She still couldn’t believe Johanna allowed him to stay here. But it had come to her attention that some… things had died out on his part of the island and she should go look to make sure everything was alright. Rahila knew more about huge beasts than just about anyone.

She was following Innya around the manor’s grounds and out a short distance to the shore. And there, sure enough, were leviathans. “Oh,” her red eyes widened.

“You recognize these?” the Master asked, standing beside her.

“I do… I didn’t think they could stay out here in this realm.”

“Excuse me?” the Master rose a perfectly manicured eyebrow at her.

She moved around to the head of the draconic looking beast. “This is a Shadow Leviathan, a big one,” she squatted down to put her head nearly inside its jaws. “They hunt that,” she stood and pointed at the Deeprealm Hunter a ways away. “A Deeprealm Hunter, a predator of the Deeprealm, hunted only by Leviathans.”

“What? What are you talking about? The Deeprealm is a myth,” the Master scoffed. “A story told by Seers who can’t See to give their lacking gifts meaning.”

“Oh, I assure you, it is very real,” Rahila said, walking around the two bodies. “Though why would a Leviathan and Hunter end up here?”

“Are there more?” Innya asked.

“Maybe,” Rahila said. “Leviathans don’t travel in packs but Hunters do. But they shouldn’t be able to sustain their forms in our reality. They’re made of dream stuff and theory. They exist only in dreams and nightmares. They shouldn’t be able to exist here,” she frowned. “Regardless, you should have them removed, quickly. If nothing else their bodies will attract all manner of scavengers and carrion feeders. The bodies are still rather fresh but beasts this size will stink for days and be smelt for miles.”

The Master looked over at Innya, “I will take care of it,” Innya nodded.

“Now the question is; are their others?” Rahila asked. She went over to the Hunter. It was… barely solid when she stepped on its great flank. This one must have gotten trapped out here. With the Leviathan? Something tickled her mind. A story she’d heard from Reza. Gemini had had to rescue Sigurrós on a fog day. He’d been attacked by some horrible beast and Gemini said he’d seen some huge draconic monster attack them. Were the fog days related to the Hunters? Reza said Gemini had said there had been a pod of them. That was worrisome. She’d have to look into it.

“Is that all you have to say?” the Master asked. “No other wisdom for us?”

“None that you’d care for,” she scoffed. “You don’t believe in the Deeprealm so there’s no reason for me to go on about them,” she hopped off the Hunter. “But really, carcasses like this will just attract dead eaters. I’d have them removed as soon as possible.”

“I said I would take care of it,” Innya said shortly.

“Very well. I’ll be off then,” Rahila said as her only goodbye before taking flight.

#flight rising #fr lore #fr lore share #lore share #cypress hall #thou shalt always queue

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The Price They Pay for Your Perfect Vacation Photo It took nearly three months, but Jody Pinder eventually succeeded. Endangered green sea turtles, usually shy, skittish and satisfied with a diet of sea grass and algae, were accepting handouts of squid that he and other local tour operators were providing at Bottom Harbor in the Bahamas. “If you don’t feed them, they won’t come close enough for you to see them and photograph them,” Mr. Pinder said. Before the pandemic, Mr. Pinder and others had been selling this assured adventure to a booming population of tourists. Day after day, boats would flock to Bottom Harbor and tourists would hop into its shallow turquoise waters holding squid morsels in their hands or on wooden skewers. The turtles would then grab the snacks as the visitors snapped Instagram-worthy images. Those who don’t take care sometimes find themselves getting bitten by the aquatic animals, who may mistake human toes and fingers for another snack. The practice is known as provisioning, and it’s an easy meal for the shelled creatures. But conservation biologists have expressed concern in a number of recent published scientific studies about what this food source means for the physical well-being and natural behavior of not just these turtles, but other marine creatures, from tiny reef fish to giant sharks. “This situation exemplifies one of the biggest challenges in conservation science,” said Owen O’Shea, executive director of the Center for Ocean Research and Education in the Bahamas. “We’re often addressing issues that have already started and we’re playing catch up.” Many experts argue that in marine environments, such feeding practices are poorly regulated, presenting risks for wildlife that are already in decline. When humans ease the energy-intensive process of seeking food for wild animals by frequently offering them grub, it can facilitate habituation. That can make animals less guarded around humans, and lead to other damaging behaviors. Although some conservationists have successfully lobbied to end provisioning at certain sites, to feed or not to feed continues to be a dilemma at others. Free meals with a covert price tag It’s no surprise that the wildlife tourism industry has time and again turned to provisioning wildlife. “From a commercial point of view, what wildlife tourism requires is the ability to sell an experience where you can reliably sight or interact with the wild animals,” said Mark Orams, a professor of marine recreation and tourism at the Auckland University of Technology. “Provisioning allows that to occur.” Local communities and economies in many countries are surely benefiting from wildlife tourism that uses provisioning. But most conservation biologists would describe the feedings as dangerous to the health and safety of wild animals. In marine environments, such provisioning herds species — that would otherwise roam large swathes of the ocean alone — close together. “Suddenly a very independent and solitary animal is in close contact with everybody else, which means it’s easier for them to get infected with parasites or viruses,” said Valeria Senigaglia, a marine biologist at Australia’s Murdoch University. It also encourages wild animals to eat regularly rather than intermittently, and sometimes discourages tracking and hunting of prey. Habituation, aggression and loss of fear toward humans typically follows, which could endanger the animals. Janet Mann, a marine biologist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., who has witnessed this behavior among dolphins, doesn’t support such provisioning. “Humans have a strong urge to feed wild animals in their environment,” Dr. Mann said. “Sometimes we think we’re doing them a favor, but not necessarily.” National or local laws that ban feeding wild animals can serve as deterrents. In the United States, for example, feeding marine mammals constitutes harassment under the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act. But ongoing illegal feeding of dolphins by local and recreational boaters and tourists in Florida’s Sarasota Bay, for instance, indicates challenges with enforcement. In the Philippines, a country that typically attracts over eight million tourists a year, recent national legislation bans the feeding of whale sharks, the world’s largest species of fish. But the law sometimes clashes with local wildlife welfare rules that only broadly prohibit harassment, without specifically mentioning provisioning. Scars and selfies Villagers in Tan-awan, on Cebu Island in the Philippines, manage the world’s largest whale shark tourism destination. Hand-feeding this globally endangered species with shrimp is central to the operation. Although whale sharks had been spotted in the region, they didn’t historically gather near the village’s coast until 2011. Local fishermen may have used shrimp to lure these underwater giants away from baits used on their fishing lines, which could have inspired tour operators to use similar tactics beginning around that year to attract the gentle filter feeders for visitors’ enjoyment. Since then, the industry has boomed. The local government has created an interaction site 160 feet offshore. There, in a cordoned area the size of almost 12 football fields, fishermen feed the whale sharks and tourists swim or dive to take selfies with the fish. But there are rules: no motorized boats, and only designated fishermen can feed the animals every morning within the buoy-marked boundary. There are also limits on how many people can interact with a single whale shark and how close they can get to it. Touching or riding these animals is prohibited, and a visitor’s time in the interaction area is limited to 30 minutes, while a sea warden keeps guard. Between 2012 and 2018, this provisioning site lured over 400 whale sharks and tourist numbers spiked to over 500,000 from 98,000, generating millions of dollars in yearly revenue. But there’s a price that many whale sharks pay. Researchers at the Philippines’ Large Marine Vertebrate Research Institute found scars on 144 of 152 whale sharks they photographed from 2012 through 2015 near Tan-awan, possibly from contact with ropes, small boats or propellers. At the interaction site, they found some whale sharks spending six times longer in the warm surface waters and performing deeper dives toward the end of the feeding session, possibly to cool down — a behavior that could affect their long-term fitness. Also, despite the many rules, the researchers observed poor compliance from many tourists who moved too close to the whale sharks. Some even touched the animals. The research team has proposed several solutions, including limiting daily tourist numbers and raising ticket prices. Restricting the feeding to a select set of whale sharks could also help. But they also warn that modifying an activity that brings income to a once extremely poor community is complicated. Regulated feeding that’s unlikely to stop At Monkey Mia in Western Australia’s Shark Bay, the state’s Parks and Wildlife Services staff use another regulatory approach to limit the provisioning of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins. Tourists are only allowed to feed two to five identified females — of the area’s thousands — that the bay’s managers track. These dolphins and their calves (who aren’t provisioned) typically visit a 300-foot section of beach, beyond which tourists line up for up to three feeding sessions each morning. Park rangers select some visitors to step knee-deep into the water and hand-feed the adults with the fish they provide. The rangers also limit these handouts to just 10 percent of a dolphin’s daily intake in order to dissuade food dependency. Otherwise touching or swimming with these animals is prohibited. Provisioning looked very different in Monkey Mia in the 1960s, when fishermen tossed unwanted catch or bait along shorelines. Into the 1980s, authorities did not regulate feeding by tourists near the shore or from boats. People touched the dolphins, fed them multiple times during the day and there were no limits on how much fish they were given. “In some ways it was fun for people because where else could you go and frolic around the water with dolphins and get them to play with you,” said Dr. Mann, who has been studying the Monkey Mia dolphins for about 40 years. Although feeding regulations were put in place in 1989, the 1994 deaths of three calves resulted in new rules in 1995 that are still in effect today. Since then, adult dolphins have cut their daily time at the provisioning site by over an hour. The early survival of their calves also substantially improved after 1995, possibly because nursing near shore waters was challenging for mothers. “When a baby dolphin feeds, it needs to go underneath the mother,” Dr. Senigaglia said. “With no space in shallow waters, the dolphin can’t nurse.” Even with these rules in place, compared with the calves of non-provisioned mothers, these baby dolphins received less maternal care and foraged more. Also, the survival benefits recorded among these calves waned at the juvenile stage. But that is unlikely to halt the feeding at Monkey Mia, Dr. Mann said. The site attracts nearly 100,000 tourists every year and millions of dollars in ticket sales. It also provisions only a handful of animals, while offering an avenue to get people interested in dolphin biology and conservation. Unlike the Australian dolphin site, many more locations have unregulated feeding. At some of them, government agencies and conservation organizations have worked together to halt provisioning. At Laganas Bay off Greece’s Zakynthos Island a few years ago, local tour boat operators tossed tomatoes, oranges and other fruits and vegetables into the sparkling blue waters to entice loggerhead turtles. Tourists waited for the turtles to come to the surface, and then took photos and touched them. In the harbor, some fishermen also provisioned these primarily carnivorous turtles, collecting tips from onlookers whom they encouraged to touch the turtle’s head and flippers. “This is totally inappropriate,” said Panagiota Theodorou, a conservation coordinator at Archelon, the sea turtle protection society in Greece. “Then animals start being aggressive to humans.” She came across social media posts of several swimmers who got bitten by the region’s turtles. Ms. Theodorou and her colleagues worked with the local coast guard to raise awareness about the issue among tour operators and tourists. They wrote letters and issued news releases to explain the downsides of such provisioning. The coast guard also issued strict warnings to tour companies to discontinue the feeding or risk fines. The provisioning seemed to have ceased in 2018. Thinking beyond the short-term Back in the Bahamas, Dr. O’Shea and Fee Smulders, a marine ecology graduate student at the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands, observed the provisioned green turtles were also aggressive toward each other when competing for food. By mounting cameras on five fed turtles and studying hours of video footage, they noted that the otherwise solitary animals were resting in groups in shallow waters. “If you have high densities of turtles, then one day a shark could show up,” Ms. Smulders said. “That could be dangerous for tourists.” But in the absence of regulation, the provisioning will likely persist. Mr. Pinder, for instance, has no plans to halt sea turtle feeding at Bottom Harbor. If turtle populations were to decline in the future, he says he would reconsider. For now, though, deviations in natural turtle behavior recorded by scientists don’t seem compelling to him. But Dr. Orams at Auckland University of Technology said there should be priorities in addition to making money. “The evidence is so clear that when we deliberately provision marine animals as a tourist attraction, the long-term implications are never good.” Source link Orbem News #pay #perfect #photo #price #vacation

[dustedmagazine]

Joseph Burnett 2017 Review: Nostalgia for the Light

Back in days of yore (well, the 19th century), nostalgia was believed to be an illness so debilitating it could compromise the fate of an army were too many soldiers “infected.” One Russian general even threatened to bury his troops alive if they came down with nostalgia. It’s hard to imagine what the clearly charming general would make of our current times, so steeped are we in waves of competing nostalgia.  

I’m one to talk, of course. The below list of albums shows that retrenchment into the past has at times been a great escape for me, musically, as 2017 quickly resolved itself into a right shitter of a year both personally and in the grander scheme of things. I’ve found myself actually nostalgic for the tiny, damp and claustrophobic apartment my ex and I used to rent because we were at least — in my mind — happy then. But that’s the thing about nostalgia: it doesn’t allow for a very nuanced image of what reality was. We certainly did have some good times in said bolthole, but surely the problems that swam into heartbreaking focus only a year or so later (and in a much nicer flat) were already there?

In politics — and this doesn’t get mentioned enough — nostalgia seems to have become a driving force. Trump vows to make America great again, without really elaborating on when it was that America was great in the first place. If one is to believe Roy Moore, it was that glorious period when slavery was a reality and you could still kill gays. But at least there was cholera and high levels of infant mortality to offset the troublesome fact that people were owned as goods and chattel. A similar vein of nostalgia has animated the Brexit debate on this side of the pond, as right-wing Brexiters hit out at “political correctness” and the European Court of Justice’s human rights laws along the road to the UK leaving the EU. Again, one can’t help but feel that the glorious past they pine for mainly revolved around being able to use ethnic slurs and homophobic insults on their way to a packed church on the edge of the village green armed with a blue passport. As with my domestic situation and Trump’s supporters, this nostalgia conveniently ignores unpalatable truths: the fifties right-wing nostalgics dream of actually included polio, rationing and the threat of nuclear annihilation. So it’s not really that different to today, except the polio bit. In that context, I’d say a bit of opprobrium directed towards racism, homophobia, transphobia and antisemitism represents progress.  

So once again, as a wave of distorted nostalgia in part propels us towards an uncertain, even scary future, music has felt like a refuge. It’s becoming a tiresome leitmotiv, really. But the past is threaded through the below list, either as a nostalgic signpost or as a fictionalized unreality. Richard Dawson, on his superlative Peasant, reimagines medieval life in a series of epic, unfathomable and beautiful songs. The folk resurgence remains steady, despite the best attempts of lacklustre Mumford & Sons-like mainstream acts to dilute its potency. June Tabor’s Quercus released Nightfall, the most authentically “folk” album to have emerged in 2017, despite its jazz flourishes, with classic traditional songs echoing through the ages like ghosts. Similar phantasms crop up on Sarah Angliss’s Ealing Feeder to tell the hidden, murky story of London. Like the camera movements in John Sayles’ Lone Star, the past swirls around us listeners on these records, as well as on the crystalline chamber jazz of Tarkovsky Quartet’s Nuit Blanche whilst Elodie’s pair of superb instrumental albums are suffused with the nostalgic atmosphere of Proust. And there have been few more haunted albums of late than Áine O’Dwyer’s Gallarais.  

Over on the dance floor, experimentation remains a vibrant way to concoct new sounds, with some of the most exciting producers around taking their already impressive music to new levels. Lee Gamble, Jlin, Actress, Laurel Halo, Shackleton, Arca: all released superb albums in 2017 that dragged the field of electronic music forwards, even those that looked into the past (the Ghost Box label continues to fascinate as it mines old TV music, computer game imagery and found sounds, with ToiToiToi’s Im Hag successfully reinventing the label’s perpetual motion wheel).

 But in a world of Trump and rising right-wing populism, defiance has resonated most powerfully for me as an emotion. Irreversible Entanglements channeled the spirit of Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite and Jeanne Lee’s majestic invective on Conspiracy to deliver a monumental invective against white privilege and the mistreatment of African Americans throughout time. Jlin’s Black Origami maintained the politically-charged, hyperactive energy of her debut Dark Energy and Mhysa contorted notions of gender and sexuality with an inventive form of r’n’b.  

Even in such illustrious company, one voice seemed to soar out of the abyss most forcefully. A strain of disillusionment has always run through Gary Mundy’s work in Ramleh or other projects, but on his latest solo outing as Kleistwahr he has hit new heights of despondency and despair. Determined to champion his own outsider status, Mundy baptized his album  —a wondrous swarm of haunted guitar and seething electronics — Music for Zeitgeist Fighters. It’s a beautiful cry of rejection as the zeitgeist becomes the plaything Trump and Spencer, Farage and Murdoch, a call to arms for all who abhor the views seeping into the mainstream to scream “not in my name!.”  

The great Chilean documentary director Patricio Guzmán’s most celebrated film is called Nostalgia for the Light and it traces that country’s traumatic history through the prism of the Atacama desert being one of the best places on earth to observe the stars. In that context, nostalgia becomes a way to reconcile oneself with the past and, perhaps, start looking for new light in the future. Maybe all who oppose the rise of right-wing demagoguery, be they musicians, activists, politicians and even lowly journalists, can find ways to look backwards to build a better tomorrow. If the world is going to be swallowed by pernicious nostalgia, it must be fought with a hopeful variety of that Russian general’s bugbear in turn.  

Kleistwahr — Music for Zeitgeist Fighters (Nashazphone)

Jlin — Black Origami (Planet Mu)

Nadah El Shazly — Ahwar (Nawa Recordings)

Richard Dawson — Peasant (Weird World)

Áine O’Dwyer — Gallarais (MIE Music)

Elodie — Vieux Silence (Ideologic Organ)

Actress — AZD (Ninja Tune)

Tarkovsky Quartet — Nuit Blanche (ECM)

Irreversible Entanglements — Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem)

Laurel Halo — Dust (Hyperdub)

Shackleton & Vengeance Tenfold — Sferic Ghost Transmits (Honest Jon’s)

ToiToiToi — Im Hag (Ghost Box)

Forest Swords — Compassion (Ninja Tune)

Félicia Atkinson — Hand in Hand (Shelter Press)

Saz’iso — At Least Wave Your Handkerchief at Me: The Joys and Sorrows of Southern Albanian Song (Glitterbeat)

Colin Vallon — Danse (ECM)

Lee Gamble — Mnestic Pressure (Hyperdub)

Elodie — La Porte Ouverte (Faraway Press)

Skullflower — The Black Iron that Fell from the Sky, to Dwell Within (Bear It or Be It) (Nashazphone)

Pan Daijing — Lack (PAN)

Arca — Arca (XL)

Quercus — Nightfall (ECM)

Dopplereffekt — Cellular Automata (Leisure System)

Aaron Dilloway — The Gag File (Dais)

Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandson — Negative Chambers (Miasmah)

Maleem Mahmoud Ghania — Colours of the Night (Hive Mind Records)

The Necks — Unfold (Ideologic Organ)

The Belbury Circle — Outward Journeys (Ghost Box)

Sarah Angliss — Ealing Feeder (self released)

Mhysa — fantasii (Halcyon Veil)

Reissues 

Tony Conrad — Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain (Superior Viaduct)

Anne Briggs — The Time Has Come (Earth

Lal & Mike Waterson — Bright Phoebus (Domino)

Henry Flynt — You Are My Everlovin’ (Superior Viaduct)

The Belbury Poly — The Owl’s Map (Ghost Box)

Battiato — Fetus (Superior Viaduct)

Akira Rabelais — Spellewauerynsherde (Boomkat Editions)

Luc Ferrari — Hétérozygote / Petite symphonie… (Recollections GRM)

Zos Kia/Coil — Transparent (Cold Spring)

Jon Gibson — Two Solo Pieces (Superior Viaduct)

#joseph burnett #yearend 2017 #dusted magazine #richard dawson #june tabor #sarah angliss #tarkovsky quartet #elodie #aine o'dwyer #kleistwahr #nadah el shazly #actress #irreversible entanglements #laurel halo

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Ethical Artificial Intelligence with an Indigenous Worldview

“The key moment happened two years ago, when a sentence buried in an unpublished book caught the eye of doctoral student Suzanne Kite. Her supervisor, Jason Edward Lewis, Concordia University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary, shared with her a draft of a chapter that discussed algorithmic bias and artificial intelligence (AI).”

“’In my own research, I had come across this idea in Lakota ontology of rocks as having volition,’ says Kite. ‘And when I read Jason’s book chapter, I realized that the Lakota ontology spoke directly to his work.’” The philosophy recognizes non-human forms of being as legitimate consciousness that exists outside of humanity. The Lakota have also established many formal protocols to recognize the relationship between human and non-human ways of being. Kite, in connecting Lakota views on non-humans to computational systems, led Lewis to reconsider how to approach the problem of bias in AI.”

The essay, titled “Making Kin with the Machines,” is co-authored by Lewis, Kite, Noelani Arista (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) and Archer Pechawis.

“Chosen out of 260 submissions, it is one of 10 essays published in a special edition of the Journal of Design and Science by MIT Press. One reviewer wrote that it might be the only essay in the collection that opens up truly new ways of thinking about AI.The essay argues that Indigenous knowledge systems are much better at accommodating the non-human than Western philosophies, because the Indigenous worldview does not place man at the centre of creation. The writers seek a relationship to non-human intelligences — beyond that of merely tools or slaves — as potential partners who exist in a living system of mutual respect.”

“’When people say they’re creating design guidelines for ethical AI and they want to have Indigenous people in the room, they just have to search ‘Indigenous AI’ and they’ll get our website with a list of people from all over the world. I hope this means more of us will be involved in those policy conversations.’”

Concordia University, April 29, 2019: Concordia’s Jason Edward Lewis wants ethical artificial intelligence with an Indigenous worldview,” by Andy Murdoch

Indigenous AI: Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Workshops

AI Ethics and HR

[W]ith about a million applicants for roughly 15,000 new positions each year, the cosmetics company [L'Oreal] is using AI to streamline hiring.‘We really wanted to save time and focus more on quality, diversity and candidate experience. And AI solutions were — for us — the best way to go faster on these challenges,’ said Eva Azoulay, global vice-president of L'Oreal's human resources department.”

“The company uses Mya, a chatbot, to save recruiters time during the first stage of the process. It handles routine queries from candidates, and checks details such as availability and visa requirements.“

“AI is still a long way from reaching its full potential, and the technology comes with risks.Algorithms can have an unfair bias depending on their input data. For example, if an algorithm used in hiring was developed using data from a company that employed only men it might be more likely to reject women.This is one reason why the European Commission unveiled ethical guidelines for AI this month, encouraging transparency, data protection and fairness.

CNN, April 29, 2019: “Want to work for L'Oreal? Get ready to chat with an AI bot,” by Nell Lewis and Jenny Marc

EU Ethics Guidlines

“The Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a document prepared by the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLEG). This independent expert group was set up by the European Commission in June 2018, as part of the AI strategy announced earlier that year.”

“The AI HLEG presented a first draft of the Guidelines in December 2018. Following further deliberations by the group in light of discussions on the European AI Alliance, a stakeholder consultation and meetings with representatives from Member States, the Guidelines were revised and published in April 2019. In parallel, the AI HLEG also prepared a revised document which elaborates on a definition of Artificial Intelligence used for the purpose of its deliverables.”

European Commission, April 6, 2019: Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI

Digital threat to a human future

“[T]he digital beings in our world, the algorithms and bots that lead us around the Internet, are not bound by an ethical code nor separated from us by a barrier. What we perceive as “our” computers or “our” phones are in fact the nodes of a network. Thus we confuse the collectivization of our minds with individual experience. Digital beings enter through our eyes, rush rather quickly past the frontal cortex, roughing things up as they go, and get down to the more reptilian parts of the brain—the ones that have no patience for the virtues of C characters. Our digital beings, like The Machine, play on our psyches. Unlike The Machine, they coordinate our actions with the preferences of multiple advertisers. Insofar as happiness—or, at least, dopamine reinforcement—comes into the picture, it is not an end in itself, but as the bait in a disquieting scheme of manipulation that has no single manipulator.”

“From there, it is a small—and very profitable—step to proclaim that daily life should resemble these specific laboratory conditions so that we can become our true selves. The behaviorist intention of hardware and software designers today is thus to draw you out of our three-dimensional space, and into the two-dimensional isolation that enables behaviorist techniques: eyes down, neck bent, shoulders up, back hunched, ears blocked. Once you are isolated, the digital beings (for example, the algorithms that arrange your feeds or rank your search results) supply the shots of happiness and sadness, the intermittent reinforcement that behaviorist experiments have demonstrated to be so befuddling. You keep staring and pecking the keyboard, just as pigeons in experiments kept staring at and pecking at the feeder that sometimes gave a pellet and sometimes did not.” 

“As a bruised apple attracts flies, human thoughtlessness draws algorithms. Digital beings exploit our exaggerated sense of our own competence, encourage our false beliefs, exploit our sexual anxieties, reduce us to isolated animals, and then induce us to expend the remnants of our intelligence providing them with alibis for what they have done. The German cultural theorist Martin Burckhardt writes of “thought without a thinker.” There can also be thinkers without thoughts: us. Might we think better about why questions after seeing how digital beings manage this?” 

NYR Daily, May 6, 2019:  “What Turing Told Us About the Digital Threat to a Human Future,” by Timothy Snyder

#AI #indigenous AI #artificial intelligence #ethics #recruitment #HR #turing test

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Well I care, ages ago i once said if Beika ever got a chance with Finn he'd shoot his shot, fuck up so bad and cry over it, then take it to twitter where he'd start shitting on the bottom feeders. Depending on how mean you see Finn i personally think she'd just ignore Beika, not even look in his general direction

Taka seems like the type of dude to walk up to a woman standing alone and offer a cigarette, even if she declines he'll light one for himself thinking it's suave and tries to make causal conversation

No you're right.....it would be even funnier if he actually had the opportunity to have a nice conversation with Fin but he just keeps overthinking during the whole thing and mumbling shyly, then ends up feeling like he fucked up everything and goes to Kikura to cry about it (on the other hand tho Fin does find Beika cute but in a "aw he's so pathetic" kind of way)

And I agree with you 😭 Except I want Taka to be a fuckboy he really seems like one to me, he sleeps around a lot but is never committed to anyone, tries very hard to charm Fin but gets kicked in the balls probably

My conclusion is that both of them are extremely pathetic but just in different ways lmao, Beika wishes he had Taka's confidence

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Microplastic pollution poses particular threat to filter-feeding rays, sharks and whales

Microplastics pose a huge threat to aquatic life, particularly large filter feeders such as whale sharks, manta rays, and baleen whales. A new study by an international team of researchers, led by the Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF) and Murdoch University, identifies the risks faced by these marine giants from an insidious form of plastic pollution known as microplastics, tiny plastic beads that can be ingested by marine life. Filter feeders are at particular risk because of their constant sifting… Microplastic pollution poses particular threat to filter-feeding rays, sharks and whales syndicated from https://chaisesofassite.wordpress.com/

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Plastic pollution: Scientists’ plea on threat to ocean giants

Scientists are calling for research on the impacts of microplastics on whales, sharks and rays that strain tiny food, like plankton, out of seawater.

Whale shark in Isla Mujeres Mexico — Photo: SIMON PIERCE/MARINE MEGAFAUNA FOUNDATION

They say the ocean giants face “significant risks” from microplastics.

Estimates suggest some whales may be ingesting hundreds of fragments of plastic a day.

The Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Coral Triangle are priorities for monitoring, according to a review of studies.

Researchers from the US, Australia and Italy looked at data on threats to large filter feeders from microplastics. These small plastic pieces less than five millimetres long can be harmful to the ocean and aquatic life.

Contamination from microplastics has the potential to further reduce the population sizes of the large filter feeders, they say.

Yet, there is very little research being carried out into the risks.

Manta ray with plastic in Indonesia — Photo: ELITZA GERMANOV/MARINE MEGAFAUNA FOUNDATION

“The full magnitude of risks of ingesting microplastics are yet to be fully investigated,” said Elitza Germanov of Murdoch University, Australia, and researcher at the US Marine Megafauna Foundation.

Possible risks include reduced nutritional uptake and damage to the digestive system when microplastics are ingested, she said.

In addition, toxin exposure through plastic ingestion could affect many biological processes, such as growth and reproduction, putting filter feeding populations “under even more strain”, she added.

Flagship species

The study, published in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, argues that large filter feeders, many of which are “charismatic and economically important species”, should be prioritised for further research into risks from microplastics.

Filter feeders swallow hundreds of cubic metres of water a day to capture their food from water, and may take in microplastics during the process.

Microplastics are similar in size and mass to many types of plankton.

Manta ray, a giant of the ocean, swimming amongst plastic — Photo: ELITZA GERMANOV/MARINE MEGAFAUNA FOUNDATION

Studies have shown chemicals associated with plastics in the bodies of whale sharks and fin whales.

“Our studies on whale sharks in the Sea of Cortez and on fin whales in the Mediterranean Sea confirmed exposure to toxic chemicals, indicating that these filter feeders are taking up microplastics in their feeding grounds,” said co-researcher Prof Maria Fossi of the University of Siena in Italy.

“Exposure to these plastic-associated toxins pose a major threat to the health of these animals since it can alter the hormones, which regulate the body’s growth and development, metabolism, and reproductive functions, among other things.”

Whale sharks feeding in the Sea of Cortez off Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, which is an important breeding ground, are estimated to ingest under 200 pieces of plastic per day.

Fin whales in the Mediterranean Sea are thought to be swallowing closer to 2,000 microplastic particles per day.

The researchers say there have been reports of 800kg of plastic found in the carcass of a stranded whale in France and another in Australia contained six square metres of plastic sheeting as well as 30 whole plastic carrier bags.

The report highlights several key coastal regions for research and monitoring within the habitat ranges of the animals, including the Coral Triangle, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean Sea, the Bay of Bengal and other areas that have high microplastic concentration levels, such as the world’s five oceanic gyres.

Whale sharks and other flagship species may act as a focal point for research, especially in countries that rely on wildlife tourism, say the researchers.

“It is worth highlighting that utilising these iconic species, such as whale sharks, manta rays and whales to gain the attention of and engage with communities, policy makers and managers will go far to enhance stewardship of entire marine ecosystems,” said said Ms Germanov, who is a PhD student at Murdoch University.

A number of filter-feeding sharks, rays and whales are on the edge of extinction. Many are long-lived and give birth to few offspring during their lives.

The whale shark, for example, is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

Found in tropical and warm temperate waters, it is the largest fish in the world, yet feeds on tiny plankton, crustaceans and small fish.

Source: BBC

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Why Bill O'Reilly and Fox News might be able to weather advertiser storm

The rush of advertisers fleeing Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” and its host Bill O’Reilly surely isn’t welcome news for the network. Setting the public-relations concerns and optics aside, though, if history is any guide Fox and O’Reilly are positioned to weather such defections if they so choose.

Nobody likes taking the financial haircut that prolonged and committed advertiser boycotts can inflict. But while some personalities have lost shows or changed networks amid such pressure, O’Reilly resides on an elevated tier with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, who, like the Fox host, has endured multiple controversies over the years and ultimately prevailed not too much worse for the wear.

The withdrawal of ads from O’Reilly’s program follows a New York Times report detailing a total of $13 million paid out in settlements to five women related to accusations of sexual harassment or verbal abuse against the Fox host. It also follows the ouster of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes — who had been O’Reilly’s staunchest defender over the years — after a series of sexual harassment allegations against him. (Both O’Reilly and Ailes have denied the allegations against them.)

Historically, advertisers are quick to pull ads or reallocate money when programs are faced with the taint of scandal. But it’s not uncommon for them to quietly return to those same programs once the public pressure subsides.

Related: 20 companies pull ads from ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ in growing backlash

Besides, for Fox News, the benefits that flow from “The O’Reilly Factor” — its highest-rated program, and the linchpin of its primetime lineup — go beyond advertising. The show’s vast audience feeds directly into the program that follow hosted by Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, helping buoy their numbers.

And as a basic cable network, Fox also receives a dual revenue stream. Well over half of its annual income stems from fees that cable and satellite operators pay to carry the channel.

Writing in the Hollywood Reporter, news analyst Andrew Tyndall cited O’Reilly’s sizable audience as the true source of his value — making carriage of Fox News “indispensable, thereby allowing the channel to charge cable operators top dollar, which is the true source of its fabulous profitability.”

Earnings from advertising are also significant, but in the short term Fox’s sales operation can rely on companies that are less sensitive to public pressure than big national brands — what are sometimes known derisively as “bottom-feeder” advertisers, from gold companies to direct-response marketers, urging viewers to call toll-free numbers. A preponderance of such sponsors ran spots during the show on Tuesday night.

Those advertisers generally pay less than blue-chip sponsors. Still, they will offset some of the losses, while securing O’Reilly’s show, which has become perhaps even more fundamental to Fox News’ short-term foundation with the departure of another primetime star, Megyn Kelly,

Finally, the cable-news audience in general — and Fox in particular — skews much older than the young-adult demographics sought by media buyers. While advertisers generally negotiate TV news deals based on the adults 25-54 age bracket, Fox’s median viewer age is 68 (the oldest among the cable-news networks), which blunts ad revenues relative to its total audience.

Advertiser boycotts have produced some notable victories, in some instances resulting in unrenewed contracts or talent opting to migrate to premium platforms, where advertising isn’t an issue.

Bill Maher, for example, lost his ABC show “Politically Incorrect” in 2002 after remarks related to the Sept. 11 attacks. He subsequently landed at HBO, where he remains.

Similarly, Dr. Laura Schlessinger — criticized for her positions regarding gays and lesbians, as well as for using the “N” word on air multiple times during a conversation with an African-American caller — didn’t renew her terrestrial radio contract and shifted to satellite service Sirius XM in 2011.

Related: Rush Limbaugh renews contract

Even Limbaugh’s empire appeared to be threathened after he called law student Sandra Fluke “a slut” in 2012. The radio host lost advertisers, and his syndicated program was chased off some key affiliates in major cities.

Still, despite the blow to his business model Limbaugh and distributor iHeartMedia announced a four-year contract extension in August, though almost surely for less money as he might once have commanded.

Fox has thus far expressed support for O’Reilly, and the fact that the network chose to renew his deal despite knowing about the settlements would seem to indicate a desire to have him continue and eventually leave on his and Fox’s own terms. (In an interview with Adweek last July, O’Reilly hinted at retirement as an option, saying, “I don’t want to work this hard much longer. I know that.”)

The larger question, perhaps, is what impact a prolonged pressure campaign will have on O’Reilly himself. In the past, the host has proved sensitive to criticism, from accusations he exaggerated his war-reporting experience to initial coverage of Andrea Mackris’ sexual-harassment lawsuit against him in 2004.

O’Reilly enjoyed unwavering backing from Ailes through past controversies. In removing Ailes, 21st Century Fox has appeared more responsive to public perceptions under the stewardship of mogul Rupert Murdoch’s heirs, James and Lachlan Murdoch.

Still, both Rupert Murdoch (who is now overseeing Fox News) and his sons still look reluctant to lose the advantages that come with employing the highest-rated host on cable news. But that could change if more allegations — and a truly sustained loss of advertisers — follow.

CNNMoney (Los Angeles) First published April 5, 2017: 11:39 AM ET