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The cull was carried out on Friday with no warning to users other than an email to tell the account holders that they had been suspended. One, @Finest.Inventions, claimed more than 13 million followers alone.
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The cull was carried out on Friday with no warning to users other than an email to tell the account holders that they had been suspended. One, @Finest.Inventions, claimed more than 13 million followers alone.
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Although Apple does not explicitly disclose it in its consumer-facing privacy documentation, a small proportion of Siri recordings are passed on to contractors working for the company around the world. They are tasked with grading the responses on a variety of factors, including whether the activation of the voice assistant was deliberate or accidental, whether the query was something Siri could be expected to help with and whether Siri's response was appropriate.
Apple says the data "is used to help Siri and dictation ... understand you better and recognise what you say".
But the company does not explicitly state that that work is undertaken by humans who listen to the pseudonymised recordings.
Apple told the Guardian: "A small portion of Siri requests are analysed to improve Siri and dictation. User requests are not associated with the user's Apple ID. Siri responses are analysed in secure facilities and all reviewers are under the obligation to adhere to Apple's strict confidentiality requirements." The company added that a very small random subset, less than 1% of daily Siri activations, are used for grading, and those used are typically only a few seconds long.
Attorneys for the Kentucky teen — who was filmed earlier this year in January wearing a MAGA hat in a viral standoff with Native American activist Nathan Phillips in Washington, DC — claimed the newspaper's coverage of the incident led to a "mob of bullies which attacked, vilified & threatened" Sandmann.
But US District Judge William Bertelsman tossed the suit, saying the paper was within its rights to publish Phillips' views that the teen was deliberately blocking his path — even if that wasn't the case.
"The Court accepts Sandmann's statement that, when he was standing motionless in the confrontation with Philip's his intent was to calm the situation and not to impede or block anyone," Bertelsman wrote in a ruling.
Comment: More on the incident:
- Investigation finds no proof of 'racist or offensive statements' by Covington Catholic students
- Washington Post finally publishes editor's note on coverage of Covington controversy
- Lawyer for Covington Catholic families gives media 48 hours to 'retract and correct' smears
- Shocking video footage confirms Covington students were being viciously harassed by rabid Black Hebrew Israelites
The US military pulled a group of Navy SEALs from Iraq over conduct that caused their commander to lose "confidence in the team's ability to accomplish the mission." The news comes amid increasing allegations of misbehavior by Navy SEALs and other Special Operations Forces personnel deployed to other countries.
According to the Navy official, who spoke to the New York Times, "when commanders began investigating the allegations [of rape], the entire platoon invoked their right to remain silent."
"At that point, the official said, commanders decided to send the whole platoon home, including the lieutenant in command," the Times reported.
The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution outlines the right not to testify against oneself in a trial.
Comment: As above, so below:
- America's history of chemical weapons use and complicity in war crimes
- Out of control: US Special Ops command launches unprecedented investigation into troops' drug-smuggling, child abuse and murder
- 16 Marines arrested at Camp Pendleton for human smuggling & drug-related offenses
- Navy SEALs say they were warned against reporting chief for war crimes - told to 'stop talking about it'
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A fake police truck that was used in robbery is transported on a flat-bed truck in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 25, 2019.
A fake police truck that was used in robbery is transported on a flat-bed truck in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 25, 2019.
At least six men with their faces covered disguised as federal police and heavily armed entered the cargo terminal at Sao Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport on Thursday and unloaded nearly 1,600 pounds of gold and precious metals bound for New York City and Zurich, Switzerland, authorities said.
"They subdued the guard at the entrance," Assistant Police Chief João Hueb said during Friday's news conference.
In video released by authorities, the thieves could be seen pulling up at the terminal and signaling for airport workers to load up a vehicle with the packages.
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Israeli crime boss and convicted murderer Ben Suthi and his bodyguard (and fellow underworld figure) Alon Azulay were murdered in a hail of bullets as they sat at a restaurant in Mexico City’s upscale Artz Pedregal shopping center on Wednesday.
Israeli crime boss and convicted murderer Ben Suthi and his bodyguard (and fellow underworld figure) Alon Azulay were murdered in a hail of bullets as they sat at a restaurant in Mexico City’s upscale Artz Pedregal shopping center on Wednesday.
Israeli crime boss and convicted murderer Ben Suthi and his bodyguard (and fellow underworld figure) Alon Azulay were murdered in a hail of bullets as they sat at a restaurant in Mexico City's upscale Artz Pedregal shopping center on Wednesday. The killing was most likely "a settling of scores in the Israeli mafia," according to a spokesman for the Mexico City prosecutor's office. A total of 44 shots were fired during the altercation, according to authorities, and it was captured on multiple CCTV cameras.
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The grand jury subpoenas were served on the pilots earlier this month after Mr. Epstein's arrest on July 6, some of the people said. Mr. Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey after he had returned from Paris on a private jet.
A lawyer for one of the pilots confirmed the subpoena, but declined to provide further details.
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Twitter first suspended Shepherd after she got into an argument with a notorious trans woman named Jessica Yaniv who has targeted the businesses of immigrant women who refused to wax her male genitals by lodging frivolous human rights complaints and allegedly sexually harassing multiple young girls.
Philosophy instructor Nick French is teaching a summer 2019 course called "Individual Morality and Social Justice," in which students address questions such as "What makes an action right or wrong, good or bad?" and "What's involved in living a good life?" The course also seeks to address the question of what a "just society" looks like, and how individuals should "respond to injustice."
The first half of the course is dedicated to addressing "how individuals ought to live." Later, students will analyze "the justice of social arrangements."
French argued in a recent Jacobin Magazine op-ed that people need to "dispossess the benevolent rich of their ill-gotten gains." The leftist magazine states that French is also a member of the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America.
In the piece, titled "Even Nice, 'Generous' Rich People Are Not Your Friends," French suggests that having wealth is an automatic indication of immorality, even if one contributes that wealth to worthwhile social causes.
Comment: Purging social media platforms of dissenting or Establishment-subverting voices has been going on for a while. It started with the outliers like Alex Jones. But apparently now they felt bold enough to execute a mass move.