[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 80 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately AI models like this one often never make it to the clinic. The model could be impressive enough to identify 100% of cases that will develop breast cancer. However if it has a false positive rate of say 5% it’s use may actually create more harm than it intends to prevent.

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 52 points 4 months ago

Seriously, I’m trying to understand why the hell they would do this. It’s like shooting yourself in the foot to spite the shoemaker.

The international supremacy of the US economy relies on dollar hegemony and US imperialist foreign policy. The whole point is to be able to import cheap goods from other countries. If China’s rise is a threat to that then why accelerate the process?

The only rationale I can think of is the Biden admin legitimately thinks the Chinese economy cannot grow without access to the American market and that tariffs have the power to curtail such access. That seems so incredibly naive though for a whole number of reasons. It’s hard to imagine people with that much power are just that obtuse.

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 29 points 5 months ago

The ignorance on display here is comedy gold. I honestly have a hard time believing it’s not just actual leftists trolling for fun. Like the one commenter who brought up the Khmer Rouge in order to imply the CPV was morally equivalent. Amazing, just simply amazing lol.

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 months ago

It’s complicated. Chiang Kai-shek was a historical adversary of the CPC and is viewed as a traitor and war criminal in the PRC. However, his nationalist party, the KMT, is alive and well in Taiwan. The CPC currently favors the KMT even though they were former adversaries because the KMT advocates for deepening economic ties to the PRC.

With this context I’m guessing the KMT’s primary opposition, the DPP, wants to highlight the KMT’s fascist legacy while also conflating the KMT’s and the CPC’s expression of Chinese nationalism. Making that false equivalency is easier because of the KMT’s interest in building stronger economic ties with the mainland.

Western media usually frames issues from the DPP’s perspective which would explain the commentary in the article.

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 months ago

For context this article is written by a caucus in DSA called Red Star. They’re MLs and part of a Marxist majority on DSA’s leadership committee. One of the two cochairs of DSA is from this caucus. The members being criticized here are from R&R, a Trotskyist caucus with no representation in leadership, and SMC, a social democratic caucus that is part of a minority in leadership.

I think this context is important because it seems most people outside of DSA don’t understand how it works. It’s not the most well defined organization but thats has allowed it to accumulate a large number of members. As such, it’s become a site of struggle with many dedicated communists trying to educate and radicalize open minded members. It shouldn’t be written off.

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 31 points 5 months ago

Okay which Hexbear is going to start a mutual aid project to paint PPB murals on people’s rooftops? It’s the only solution I can see here.

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 54 points 5 months ago

Please Mr. Xi stop thinking about climate change for just one second! Don’t you know that by subsidizing a green energy transition you’re hurting American oil executive bonuses?! That’s not fair!!!

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 32 points 6 months ago

It’s for all of the journalists, aid workers, and their families.

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 43 points 11 months ago

Bush sued to stop a recount in Florida that would have likely led to Gore winning the 2000 presidential election. A conservative Supreme Court majority sided with Bush and stopped the recount. It makes Trump’s whole “STOP THE COUNT!” look amateurish in comparison. Bush actually was able to stop the count and got away with it.

Gore didn’t want Americans to start questioning the legitimacy of our democracy so he conceded. The rally around the flag effect after 9/11 helped quash any further criticisms of how Bush came to office.

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 48 points 11 months ago

Okay but Bush actually stole a presidential election.

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago

It started pretty early into the war after Ukraine accused Russia of massacring civilians. They also willfully misinterpret Russian propaganda, which questions the legitimacy of the Ukrainian state, as a genocidal threat. There’s also the thing about orphans in Russian occupied areas getting adopted by Russians.

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

It’s kind of funny that actual US border crossing have way more cameras.

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