the sun also rises.

Musk asks for feedback, leading to the thread above. Afterwards:

taking a piece of text that someone probably put their heart and soul into creating and using it as your raw material, cutting out everything that you deem irrelevant to the point you want to make

i mean imagine cutting up a painting and using it to make a collage, or taking a marble sculpture and carving pieces out of it to make a different sculpture

Image 1 is by aromantic bristle frost:

poetry, not just as art, but as violence against someone—their heart and soul—and using it, cutting out everything. imagine cutting up a painting or taking a marble sculpture and carving pieces. just to be clear: blackout poetry, i’m criticizing it here. i am. i have Thoughts about being destructive.

Images 2 through 7 are by in the fall of a sparrow. Image 2:

blackout poetry as an art form, taking a piece of text and using it as your raw material, cutting out everything irrelevant to the point you want to make. imagine using it to make a collage, or taking pieces out of it to make different poetry. i’m not criticizing. i am just axing poetic. i don’t really know about art being destructive.

Image 3. Readable text is within in red and blue boxes. Sentences are censored with grey and white boxes outlined respectively in black and grey:

poetry, not just an art form, but as an act. the work of taking a piece of text’s heart and soul and cutting to the point to make meaning. using it and carving pieces out of it to make art instructive.

Image 4. Most of the text has been edited to appear washed and faded, grey lines striking through them. Readable text is highlighted in light blue boxes, while some words are censored with black boxes outlined in light blue.

i mean, imagine cutting up a piece of text that’s just waxing poetic about blackout poetry being destructive, violence against other works of art and using it as your raw material to make a collage; criticizing it.

Image 5:

any poet forms an act of violence in the work of art: taking a piece of their heart and eating it raw, cutting very deep to make an image in pain and using it to age a marble sculpture, carving pieces out to make a difference. just to be a poet, i’m not here. i am out. i don’t really know where i have Thought about being.

Image 6. Yellow lines connect three “art"s to the word “irrelevant”. The word “Thought” is outlined in yellow. “Try again” is connected by a thin white line:

try again. art, art, art—irrelevant. Thoughts. art.

Image 7 has blacked out most of the text in individual black lines, but many purposefully empty white spaces separate them:

just to be clear: i don’t really know where i’m going with this. just being destructive.

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The team had been building computer programs since 2014 to review job applicants’ resumes with the aim of mechanizing the search for top talent, five people familiar with the effort told Reuters.

Automation has been key to Amazon’s e-commerce dominance, be it inside warehouses or driving pricing decisions. The company’s experimental hiring tool used artificial intelligence to give job candidates scores ranging from one to five stars - much like shoppers rate products on Amazon, some of the people said.

“Everyone wanted this holy grail,” one of the people said. “They literally wanted it to be an engine where I’m going to give you 100 resumes, it will spit out the top five, and we’ll hire those.”

But by 2015, the company realized its new system was not rating candidates for software developer jobs and other technical posts in a gender-neutral way.

That is because Amazon’s computer models were trained to vet applicants by observing patterns in resumes submitted to the company over a 10-year period. Most came from men, a reflection of male dominance across the tech industry.

In effect, Amazon’s system taught itself that male candidates were preferable. It penalized resumes that included the word “women’s,” as in “women’s chess club captain.” And it downgraded graduates of two all-women’s colleges, according to people familiar with the matter. They did not specify the names of the schools.

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This Teacher Used The “American Chopper” Meme For His Lesson Plan And It Turned Out Great

Matthew Chovanec is a teacher at University of Texas, where one of his classes is about the rhetoric of Islam in America.

Last week he gave his students their first quiz on Sadakat Kadri’s history of Shari'a law. The subject can be pretty dense, especially for students with no background in Islamic terminology, Chovanec told BuzzFeed News. He knew his students were “stressed” about the test.

“So the chopper meme was sort of the logical conclusion” Chovanec said.