ugh
I am playing and forever willbe playing Hello Kitty Dream Village. It’s a shitty gacha game but I love it. I alos play Torn but I really don’t like it. I’m literally just signing in and collecting points. I don’t like that it’s centered around violence and drugs. No, I’m not mormon. I do belong to the Church of Mr. Rogers. ;P
An easier to read summary -
China’s technology transfers and their impacts -
Key Focus: The article examines whether Chinese technology transfers, specifically from Huawei, help recipient governments expand digital surveillance and repression. The study focuses on Huawei as it’s the world’s largest telecommunications provider and has significant data available about its transfers.
Main Findings: The effects of Huawei technology transfers depend heavily on the recipient country’s political institutions:
In autocracies: Transfers lead to increased digital surveillance, internet shutdowns, internet filtering, and targeted arrests for online content In democracies: No clear or consistent evidence of increased digital repression
Key Data Points: Study covers 153 Huawei projects worth approximately $1.6 billion Spans 64 countries between 2000-2017 About 90% of projects by value are in the communications sector Asia and Africa account for over 85% of total transfers
What Drives Huawei Transfers: Market size (population) Demand for low-cost telecommunications Prior relationships with China through aid Notably, transfers are NOT primarily driven by:
Natural resource endowments Regime type Political instability
Important Context: China has developed sophisticated domestic surveillance capabilities Huawei often incorporates technologies from smaller Chinese firms Technology transfers are “dual-use” - they can be used for both legitimate development and repression
Why Different Effects in Democracies vs. Autocracies:
Different Motivations: Autocracies: Often seek technology to control dissent and prevent collective action Democracies: More likely to use technology for public goods and economic development
Different Constraints: Democracies: Have institutional guardrails (courts, media, civil society) that limit misuse Autocracies: Fewer checks and balances on government power
Limitations of the Study:
The research suggests that while Chinese technology transfers can enable digital repression, this outcome isn’t inevitable - it depends significantly on the recipient country’s existing political institutions and oversight mechanisms.
Yea. I paused mine for a while and when I returned I saw it had been somehow active enough to be liking shit I didn’t like.
The irony of gen X believing in X.
How did they not see this coming and have something in place? Not to victim blame. I’m just like, if you are in a position of leadership in yor nation’s security how did you not strategize this scenario coming up? Either way, please isolate us (the US). We fucking deserve to lose leverage.
Cool, cool. More jobs to disappear.
Yea. Def not the end solution. I keep encouraging people to get on Pixelfed and Mastadon.
I’m leaving Meta fully this year. I think that platform is in for a rude awakening.
500 billion… of H1B1 visas. Great work, MAGAs.
My Gen Y co-workers totally do. It’s cringetastic.
This is a lovely and illustrative example.
I posted above a few studies that show unconscious bias in hiring practices against people of color. There is a reason why DEI exists. It’s like OSHA laws. Every rule for these programs has a great misfortune behind it.
Cool story bro. Anyway …
"Numerous studies demonstrate that without fair hiring practices in place, certain groups of people are often favored over others due to unconscious biases.
A study by the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley found that applicants with white-sounding names received 9% more callbacks compared to those with African-American-sounding names, despite having similar qualifications[1]. In some companies, this gap widened to nearly 19%[1].
Research from the UK showed that white candidates were favored in about 47% of hiring tests, with ethnic minority candidates needing to send twice as many applications to receive the same number of callbacks[6]. A more recent study by the University of Oxford found that candidates from minority ethnic backgrounds had to send 80% more applications to get the same results as white British applicants[6].
Gender bias has also been documented. A study on science faculty hiring revealed that identical applications randomly assigned male or female names resulted in men being rated as more competent and hireable, and even offered higher starting salaries[6].
These biases persist even in organizations committed to diversity. Research suggests that firms may unconsciously favor candidates from privileged backgrounds, such as those able to take unpaid internships, which introduces socioeconomic bias[7].
Without fair hiring practices, these studies consistently show that white candidates, males, and those from higher socioeconomic backgrounds tend to be favored in the hiring process, highlighting the need for interventions to reduce bias and promote equity in recruitment."
Citations: [1] https://eliinc.com/unconscious-bias-hiring-study/ [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskConservatives/comments/1afg9v3/does_diversity_hiringdei_make_you_doubt_if/ [3] https://www.northwestern.edu/provost/policies-procedures/faculty-searches/resources/unconscious-bias-research.pdf [4] https://www.beapplied.com/post/fair-hiring-your-go-to-manual-for-de-biased-recruitment [5] https://vidcruiter.com/video-interviewing/hiring-biases/ [6] https://www.beapplied.com/post/recruitment-bias-report-how-bias-affects-hiring-and-how-to-remove-it [7] https://hbr.org/2021/02/research-how-companies-committed-to-diverse-hiring-still-fail [8] https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/are_merit_based_systems_actually_fair [9] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4554714/
Yea, that and the shit I saw on how to train kids in ballet with adults standing with almost full weight on their hips to “limber them up”. It’s a different culture all together.