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@aud some business people are going to use it until a court makes them stop

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run "We see you have spent the entire past month working 160 hours! Wow! When we combine that with the ethnicity and gender of your name, some data we bought from a data broker, and certain skull measurements, our Outlier AI model tells us that why, you're lucky to even work! You're welcome for the experience!"

@aud "certain" skull measurements because everyone knows some of them aren't worth shit. we stay up to date with leading skull scientists to get you the best of the best top tier eugenics

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run I still can't fucking believe (yes I can) that they just... actually try this shit

https://journalofbigdata.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40537-019-0282-4

hilariously, a search for "phrenology" in the yields nothing. Strange.

@aud amazed that they actually got it retracted maybe there is some hope of resistance

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run only because other researchers had to take the time to target it, basically: http://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.03895

@aud @hipsterelectron seems like a good use of time to take that horse shit down tho.

@cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run Oh, I mean, definitely, I agree, like obviously they're trying to push it and it would have worked. But it's obviously bullshit they had to. I feel like if you accept "phrenology but with a computer" you should not get to be a journal anymore because what the fuck is even the point of you being a gatekeeper if you can't keep the goddamned debunked science out?

@aud @hipsterelectron @cthos Just suggesting anything vaguely adjacent to phrenology should be a lifetime ban from publishing in any journal or holding professorship at any university worldwide.

@dalias @aud @cthos our institutions could be able to misuse that so it shouldn't be self-regulation but rather an audit by an external authority at least. universities are able to retain a multitude of tax breaks which could easily be used to curb their behavior although i don't like the precedent of right wing governments making gender illegal there either

@hipsterelectron @aud @cthos My leaning would be more like professional ethics association/union imposing it.

@hipsterelectron @aud @cthos The majority of academics are not friendly to nazi adjacent ideas. Just need the organization & will to act in unison to refuse to work or associate with anyone who is.

@dalias @aud @cthos was thinking about IEEE from above and the royal society from last week as standards setting orgs. have been incredibly impressed w the support from AAUP for protests at universities last year

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run @dalias@hachyderm.io @cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev it took a hot minute, but I did figure out where the contact author / PI is working. It was a little difficult since the paper has been retracted and isn’t really linked anywhere, but they are indeed a professor at a university… much to my displeasure.

@aud @hipsterelectron @cthos We should also have students organizing to oust nazi professors.

@dalias @aud @cthos was rly upsetting how student advocacy failed to oust shai davidai at columbia (who had been advocating for violence against many students) until he threatened an admin

@wen @aud @hipsterelectron @cthos Hack the journal's email archives.

@wen @aud @hipsterelectron @cthos I really want to see hacktivism outing nazi collaborators becoming a thing. None of these institutions they infest have any security hygiene. May they all get popped.

@dalias @wen @aud @cthos travis brown doesn't really do hacktivism per se but he does identify nazis with poor opsec and is a huge inspiration to me

@dalias @hipsterelectron @aud @cthos it matters how independent an institution is, but being independent is not enough to keep it from becoming oppressive. we should never build institutions that would be too strong for future activists to dismantle if the need arose.