Notices by Silver Spook Games (silverspookgames@mastodon.social), page 11

Machine learning is money laundering for bias. It's oppression outsourcing.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automation-insight/amazon-scraps-secret-ai-recruiting-tool-that-showed-bias-against-women-idUSKCN1MK08G

'Europe, It’s Time to End the Growth Dependency'
https://degrowth.org/2018/09/06/post-growth-open-letter/

German politics on the verge of self-destruction: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/world/europe/merkel-tested-as-her-chief-spy-becomes-a-hero-of-the-far-right.html

#explosive

The Pnumonic Tavern was a bar for caconium miners, but they'd all died of xenotoxin poisoning or assorted uncovered cancers. Now, the usual suspects; terminally laid-off truckers, doctors, lawyers, slumming to score synthopioids to overdose on. 'Fugee gangs of countless colonial wars, piling up bodies in clashes with Heilrazor skinheads. Ex-military ghosts drowning atrocity guilt in alcohol poisoning, bullets.

Still an open-air mass-grave to bury non-people in, technically
#microfiction

The Pnumonic Tavern was a bar for caconium miners, but they'd all died of xenotoxin poisoning or assorted uncovered cancers. Now, the usual suspects; terminally laid-off truckers, doctors, lawyers, slumming to score synthopioids to overdose on. 'Fugee gangs of countless colonial wars, piling up bodies in clashes with Heilrazor skinheads. Ex-military ghosts drowning atrocity guilt in alcohol poisoning, bullets.

Still an open-air mass-grave to bury non-people in, technically
#microfiction

"Forty. Five. Seconds. To. Deliver." The Deliverator app on Xze's shitty last-gen burner demanded in a weird Earth accent, a country called Hogwarts or Narnia or something. Xze double-timed it, hurdling a pile of asleep or dead Synderian refugees collecting flies. Knocked over a Sagittaire street preacher soap-boxing the "Return of the Final God Machine" into an autonomous payday loans kiosk and its rack of explosive indenture-collars.

-Terminus Cyberstar excerpt

#microfiction #smallstories

"Forty. Five. Seconds. To. Deliver." The Deliverator app on Xze's shitty last-gen burner demanded in a weird Earth accent, a country called Hogwarts or Narnia or something. Xze double-timed it, hurdling a pile of asleep or dead Synderian refugees collecting flies. Knocked over a Sagittaire street preacher soap-boxing the "Return of the Final God Machine" into an autonomous payday loans kiosk and its rack of explosive indenture-collars.

-Terminus Cyberstar excerpt

#microfiction #smallstories

Mastodon is a great tool, and surely makes it easier, and empowers you to block and filter out Nazis, report and pressure admnis to do PUNT THE NAZIS and also to vote with your feet to instances where admins do the right thing... which is BEATING THE FUCK OUT OF NAZIS rather than making money from them, like on that other site.

End of the day, it's still going to come down to people doing the right thing.