As is usual on holiday weekends around here, the tumbleweeds will be blowing through the cyber-streets no matter what fascinating ethical conundrums I can find. Nevertheless, perhaps the few, those happy few, can make up in quality here what EA will almost certainly lack in quantity.
We shall see, will we not?
You’re up!
Ethics Alarms 
Does it strike anyone as unusual that the DOJ has now begun investigating Elon Musk for both Tesla and SpaceX activities.
Unusual? No. We know why and shouldn’t be surprised at all.
Nope, not at all. If you aren’t woke, you’re a target.
No. No surprise at all when we’re being governed like a banana republic.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-gary-wilcox-profane-tiktok-videos-complaint-alleges/
-Jut
He’s black, ergo, EVIL White Supremacists pounced.
X, formerly known as Twitter, has updated its privacy policy.
https://fortune.com/2023/08/31/elon-musk-x-biometric-data-user-job-education-history-train-ai-security-twitter/
““We may collect and use your personal information (such as your employment history, educational history, employment preferences, skills and abilities, job search activity and engagement, and so on) to recommend potential jobs for you, to share with potential employers when you apply for a job, to enable employers to find potential candidates, and to show you more relevant advertising,” the updated policy says.”
Is this ethical?
An interesting court ruling to discuss.
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Another issue worth commenting about.
we just have to flatten the curve
Yeah and I still remember March 2020 when we were all being told by Saint Fauci that it was just going to be for “two weeks” then, but in reality it became . . . well I literally don’t have to tell anyone in the whole world, do I?
I mean sure: things can change unexpectedly and the right thing to do is deal with the situation as it IS, not as you thought it would be by now.
But at the same time, I don’t think I’m wrong for being skeptical. After all, the last time around we saw a whole helluva lot of dealing with the situation as it obviously and empirically was NOT–most of it centered around masks.
–Dwayne
Any thoughts on the sentences being handed out to the January 6 rioters? Seventeen years? Ten years? In Arizona, the maximum sentence for second degree murder is eleven years.
Some would argue Arizona is too lenient on murderers.
You posted a photo on facebook of a lady playing a guitar and some dude staring at her.
That’s an AI generated photo. She’s got multiple extra fingers on her left hand, the guitar is wrong, the man is missing his forearms, and the shadows all disagree.
I wrote, “I have no idea what the hell is going on in this photo, but it makes me laugh every time I look at it.
Any idea what she could be singing?”
It still makes me laugh. Whether it was real, staged, altered…interesting, but not germane. I wasn’t offering it as evidence in a trial.
No idea, but the man in the back is seriously considering putting her back in the orgone accumulator.