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  • I really wish this article had more information, but the way it’s written is very vague and potentially rage-baiting. The only fact stated about the incident is:

    Students at Clack Middle School were allegedly told by a staff member that they would begin tracking menstrual cycles for female students.

    The word “they” in that sentence is unacceptably vague for a news article. Who is “they”? Is it the school and/or staff members? Because that’s justifiably bullshit and rage worthy.

    Or does “they” mean the individual student? If a health teacher is teaching students how to use a period tracker, then that’s an entirely different story.

    All in all, this is pretty lazy reporting that makes me think of how Fox News and its imitators get away with riling people up by completely misinterpreting a situation. With that being said, maybe this is a genuine case of a school doing something abhorrent. In which case, the journalist needs to do a better job providing the details rather than just one vague statement.







  • jballs@sh.itjust.workstoComic Strips@lemmy.worldA.I.
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    1 month ago

    Sharing this post I made 5 months ago:

    I’m an IT consultant and I had a meeting with AWS yesterday. My manager asked me to give the AWS team an overview of our solution so they could see what they could use for a new program they were pitching our clients. That’s all the information I had, so I started the meeting by saying “I’m not sure what you all are proposing, so I’m going to give you a high level but please let me know where you need more details.”

    After I had finished giving my overview, I tried to get more info out of them about what they were proposing to build. I shit you not, their response was that they wanted to "build an app that allowed the business to run with AI and ML (Machine Learning).”

    They didn’t say, “we want to solve X and Y problems” or “enable Z functionality.” Literally their entire goal was to build something with AI. I’m glad I wasn’t on camera or in person, because I literally face-palmed.