Google blocks gender pronouns including ‘him’ and ‘her’ from its AI tool that completes sentences over fears it might predict YOUR sex or gender identity incorrectly and offend you. Google goes from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Google refuses to allow Marsha Blackburn ad
Google refuses to allow Marsha Blackburn’s political ad. Google is not a friend to democracy, let’s face it. Google and the rest of Silicon Valley represent the yawning chasm of tyranny, censorship, and slavery for the whole world. How do they justify this in Google corporate meetings? What kind of specious, casuist, Jesuit-like logic do they employ when they explain to each other why Republicans should be silenced? Look at their behavior: they kowtow to despots in Red China, censoring information like lapdogs for their communist masters, yet refuse to allow a Republican political ad in Tennessee! So communist despots they like and help, Republicans they work against. What does that tell you about Google?
The cyber circle of life: You get your information from Google, Google gets its information from you
Google’s Street View cars collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world, a practice that raises novel privacy concerns.
The following story has everything necessary to fire up the Kos Kooks, Huffposers and a vast assortment of so called civil libertarians into a furious frenzy that ends in their demands for the perpetrators to either go to jail or before a firing squad.
Only there is a problem. The story is about Google and not Rupert Murdoch, an incidental important enough to ensure that the issue never graduates from casual concern to national crisis.
CNET sorts it all out:
Google’s Street View cars collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world, a practice that raises novel privacy concerns, CNET has confirmed.
The cars were supposed to collect the locations of Wi-Fi access points. But Google also recorded the street addresses and unique identifiers of computers and other devices using those wireless networks and then made the data publicly available through Google.com until a few weeks ago.
When Google adopted the motto “Don’t be evil” we all laughed. It seemed like typical snark by typically snarky gen x’ers rapidly becoming what they had long despised.
Some years on we’re not laughing so hard any more. Instead of that motto coming off as a mildly amusing joke it has become something we hope they will someday achieve.
– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com
Source: cnet.com
What does Google know about sex that we don’t know?
The geniuses at Google have developed a new sex, because in addition to being offered the same old boring choices of “Male” and “Female.”
IHTM’s Administrator is a techie, an early adopter, which explains why he signed up for the Google+1, the search giant’s new social network, as soon as it launched.
Reviews of the Facebook competitor have been harsh. For example, Business Insider said, “There’s almost nothing original with Google+.”
But that’s not true. When you sign up for the new Google+, you get the attached question on gender.
Apparently, the geniuses at Google have developed a new sex, because in addition to being offered the same old boring choices of “Male” and “Female,” they now offer you the option to select “Other”.
Our best guess? They expect Richard Simmons to sign up.
Source: Business Insider
Google Maps: Obscene anti-Obama crop circle crops up in Louisiana
Down in St. Landers Parish, just outside Lafayette, Louisiana, someone has carved a “crop circle” that is not complementary to President Obama. Not favorable at all.
Down in St. Landers Parish, just outside Lafayette, Louisiana, someone has carved a “crop circle” with two not so kind words for President Obama. We say “someone” but who knows? It may just as well be “something” because we’re pretty sure Obama’s pissed off the entire universe at this point.
No one’s stepping forward to take blame (nor credit) for the horrible descecration, this thoughtless crime, this farmland folly.
But we do know one thing: If it had said the same thing about Bush instead of Obama, the artist would undoubtedly be eligible for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Here’s how you can see the artwork yourself, right from Google Maps: Just start clicking on the zoom button (the + sign, and only the plus sign) in the upper left corner of the embedded map below, until you close in on the crop circle.
Better look quickly, before the Google Maps department pulls out their Photoshop expert.
If you’re interested in Google Maps discoveries, you will love our story of a structure discovered on Google Mars. You have to see this one.
Intelligence expert: Google rankings can help predict political unrest
Don’t worry about the Muslim Brotherhood. Don’t panic. Don’t freak out. The terrorist organization doesn’t inspire enough Google searches to be a force for ill in Egypt.
Don’t worry about the Muslim Brotherhood. Don’t panic. Don’t freak out. The terrorist organization doesn’t inspire enough Google searches to be a force for ill in Egypt.
At least that’s the theory that some in the military intelligence community would have us believe.
A lot of your tax dollars were wasted by NPR to bring you this report:
Consider the debate raging in Washington, D.C., about the Muslim Brotherhood as the revolution unfolded in Egypt, he [Lt. Col. Reid Sawyer, an Army intelligence officer and head of West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center] says. There were concerns in the U.S. intelligence community that the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic political group, might come to power.
“If the decision makers could have understood how little the Muslim Brotherhood was animating the online searches inside of Egypt,” Sawyer continued, “how might it have led to different decisions or different discussions, at least, that were being held in the halls of Washington?”
In other words, few seemed interested enough in the Muslim Brotherhood to search for them on Google. So how much of a role could the group have been playing in day-to-day conversations in Egypt?
It is unfortunate that Al Gore hadn’t invented the internet back in the summer of 1789. Otherwise we could all have been assured that France stood little chance of becoming a military dictatorship. After all, hardly anyone – on or around July 14th of that year – would have had much interest in Googling an obscure little Corsican by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte.
– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com
Source: NPR.org
The Super Bowl commercial Google didn’t run, but should have
Here’s the manly man version of the Super Bowl commercial Google didn’t run, but should have.
We’re manly men here at IHateTheMedia.com and that Google Parisian love story Super Bowl commercial didn’t put any tears in our eyes. None at all. It was just a couple specs of dust, that’s all.
On the other hand, here’s the manly man version of the commercial Google didn’t run, but should have.
Congratulations to the guys at Slate V who created it.
The Mystery of Argleton: Google Maps creates town where none exists, won’t explain
Google does many things that are beyond the grasp of mere mortals and this is one of them. Google Maps has placed a town called Argleton in the middle of the English countryside where none exists.
Google does many things that are beyond the grasp of mere mortals and this is one of them. Google Maps has placed a town called Argleton in the middle of the English countryside where none exists.
London’s Daily Telegraph tells the strange story and some of the problems it’s caused:
The town appears on Google Maps in the middle of fields close to the M58 motorway, just south of Ormskirk.
Its ‘presence’ means that online businesses that use data from the software have detected it and automatically treated it as a real town in the L39 postcode area.
An internet search for the town now brings up a series of home, job and dating listings for people and places “in Argleton,” as well as websites which help people find its nearest chiropractor and even plan jogging or hiking routes through it. The businesses, people and services listed are real, but are actually based elsewhere in the same postcode area.
Google and the company that supplies its mapping data are unable to explain the presence of the phantom town and are investigating.
Tantalisingly, “Argle” echoes the word “Google,” while the phantom town’s name is also an anagram of “Not Real G,” and “Not Large.”
Here’s the Google Maps page for Argleton. You can switch to satellite view to see the terrain (and no town).
What’s Google up to this time? Any ideas?
Source: Best of the Web Today
What happens when you do a Google Image search for “obama” and “poster?”
We got a note this morning from the Executive Research Director here at IHateTheMedia.com.
“I was searching the internet last night for a copy of Shepard Fairey’s red, white and blue Obama poster. So I did a Google search for ‘Obama’ and ‘poster.’ The results are hilarious. You’ll probably do a story on it.”
We tried it. Sure enough. Up came dozens of funny variations of the Shepard Fairey poster. We’re sharing some of our favorites with you.
