Word of the week – matutinal
How Interracial Love Is Saving America | Sheryll Cashin
As of the 2010 census, the most reliable recent source, around 24 percent of adopted children in the United States were placed with a parent of a race different from their own, up from 17 percent in 2000. Christian groups in red states are part of this trend.
About 17 percent of new marriages and 20 percent of cohabiting relationships are interracial or interethnic. About one-quarter of Americans have a close relative in an interracial marriage. In the most recent Pew Research Center survey, 91 percent of respondents said that interracial marriage was a change for the better or made no difference at all.
Whites and blacks are still less likely to intermarry — they make up about 11 percent of newlywed heterosexual couples — but acceptance is growing. For whites in particular, intimate contact reduces prejudice. Whites with reduced prejudice, in turn, have a worldview similar to that of many minorities; that is, they support policies designed to reduce racial inequality.
“Facial recognition tech makes it official: There is no privacy anymore”
Recent weeks have brought controversy over electronic billboards in restaurants and shopping precincts that utilize advanced facial recognition techniques to not only provide personalized advertisements but also measure and record the consumer and their response, ostensibly to enable retailers to provide more targeted marketing and services.
In Oslo, the restaurant Peppe’s Pizza had its usage of such billboards exposed due to a crashed digital advertisement that revealed the coding behind its facial recognition system. The billboard includes a camera and facial recognition software that can register gender, whether the watcher is young or an adult, facial expression, whether they wear glasses. and duration of time spent at the billboard.
Don’t put your photos on anything owned by Facebook, Google or Apple (or that can be, in the future).
“Facial recognition tech makes it official: There is no privacy anymore”
At the playground, a man muttering, in Russian, at R, since L was in his stroller’s way: “Move your child, b.tch”.
He then sat down with his hipster-looking friends. I had to tell him of the error of his ways, and he told me (in Russian) to get lost.
But then he came and apologized and said that he was tired.
“Police Union Contracts” by Stephen Rushin
This is something that i feel is consistently missing from all discussions about police (mis)behavior in this country – zero accountability that comes from being protected by extremely powerful unions.
Looks like it’s being confirmed by research.
The person you marry is the person you fight with. The house you buy is the house you repair. The dream job you take is the job you stress over. Everything comes with an inherent sacrifice -whatever makes us feel good will also inevitably make us feel bad. What we gain is also what we lose. What creates our positive experiences will define our negative experiences.
Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (via saint-clarity)
To be content
(via saffronfingers)
Before the Flood
Looks like Nat Geo have put Before the Flood back on free release! If you haven’t seen it, take this opportunity – it’s honestly the best overview of the issues that I’ve seen, and full of solutions. Like not voting for climate terrorists.
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