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Vandalism on Wikipedia made Apple Siri give racist Indian answer – India Today

Call it Siri fooled by vandals on Wikipedia. If you ask Siri, a virtual assistant inside the Apple iPhone, iPad and Mac, "what is an Indian", the answer that comes from the "smart" assistant might offend you. And for right reasons. Siri in its reply says that "they are a little brown and they smell like curry and they eat it".

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Update: Siri's weird answer to term Indian was due to vandalism on Wikipedia and Apple seems to have made additional changes to its virtual assistant to ensure that it doesn't pick up incorrect Wikipedia answers anymore. Now, if you ask Siri "what is an Indian" it is giving an appropriate and regular answer.

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Smart assistant, did you say? This is a rather dumb answer, or some sick joke played by a college student. For its answer, Siri says that the source is Wikipedia. But then it is also an answer that some college kid somewhere found funny and decided to put up on the Internet, from where Siri picked it up.

The interesting bit here is that although Siri is at fault here, and its answer is making Indians on the web rather furious, it is accurate in saying that its source for this "brown and curry" definition is Wikipedia. A Buzzfeed report mentions that what Siri is doing here is that it is pulling the definition from Wikipedia. However, instead of pulling it from the live page, which is there right now, it is pulling in information from a Wikipedia edit made on that page on June 8, 2017. On that day someone had put in the information that Siri is using on the Indian page of Wikipedia. Although the changes were quickly rolled back -- this is how Wikipedia works -- for some reason Siri is still using the cached version of the page for its definition.

For Apple, the incident is not only embarrassing but also shows the challenge it faces in making its virtual assistant more useful and accurate. For a lot of Siri answers, the company relies on third-party sources like Wikipedia and the data that these sources have is not always accurate.

Google, which too has its virtual assistant called Google Assistant, is somewhat ahead in the "smart" game. Not only the Google Assistant understands the accent of users better, it also has access to far more data compared to Siri, which helps it provide better information to users. For example, in this instance when asked "what is an Indian", here is the information Google Assistant provides:

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6 Logical Fallacies From Race-Obsessed Jewish Leftist Tim …

This article is a continuation of an educational series addressing SJWs and their logical fallacies on Twitter. CNN commentator Sally Kohn was the first person showcased in this series, and now we are moving onwards to another giant human hemorrhoid to logic and reason: Tim Wise, whose family name is most ironic indeed.

Tim Wise is a highly controversial anti racist (Jewish Europhobic agitator and cultural Marxistpropagandist) author and speaker who lives in a Tennessee census tract which is over 95% white. (Diversity apparently isnt important when considering the school districts for his two precious daughters).

He has written seven books which more or less address how awful white people are, and are undeserving of future self-preservation and a sense of nationalism or pride. Because that would like, on queue from the SJW playbook, make you a Nazi and stuff.

Sales of these books and his ongoing speeches and television appearances have earned him a comfortable living, though unfortunately due to exploiting the emotions and fervors of woefully uninformed African-Americans, and even stupider bleeding heart white liberals. Observe.

#BlackLivesAreUntouchable #BlameAllWhitePeople #BurnItDown #SocialJustice #DisruptCapitalism #DisruptChurch #DisruptTraffic

Tim also has an incredibly irritating habit of routinely referring to people of European descent as white folks (which I suspect is done purposefully as a historical jab against salt-of-the-Earth white people who referred to blacks as black folks) and, in complete SJW fashion, will double down on his entirely false anti-white narratives at all cost. After all, book sales and cash flow are at stake if he dares to admit that his logic is wrong.

Speaking of logic, we will now dissect a number of his tweets for fallacious content.

SJWs like Tim Wise are absolutely obsessed with bringing up examples from the distant past to continue pushing a false white oppressor-black victim mythos in the 2010s (and the white guilt trip which will hopefully ensue). These cheap insults and tactics are completely irrelevant in 2016 USA, where African-Americans have enjoyed full civil rights and privileges for nearly two generations and counting.

This is part of the reason why the progressive left is jeeringly called the regressive leftbecause they are constantly living in bygone days to push their devious narratives, at the partial or complete expense of achieving true progress.

A pooh-pooh is a fallacy that consists of dismissing an argument as being unworthy of serious consideration, often byridiculing the argument without responding to the substance of the argument.

In this tweet, Tim claims that he says whatever he wants to his target audience (Nazis) but is unwilling to be receptive to whatever counter-arguments his opponents have to say. Pooh-poohs are most often used to express a sheer sense of spite for the opponent, or due to the users desire to simply be an ass (which Tim Wise does very well).

Here is a second example of a Pooh-pooh (laced with ad hominem) presented by Tim Wise. We are well aware by now that he isnt going to respond favorably to anything that Donald Trump or his supporters has to say, but this tweet is particularly hilarious since Timmy actually thinks that HE is a legitimate source of logic and reason.

A loaded question is aquestion that has a negative presumption built into it, so that the target cannot answer it without appearing guilty. Recipients of loaded questions often feel compelled to defend themselves, but they are actually being lured into a trap.

In this tweet, anyone who is actually brave enough to debate with Timmy while using their real names will inadvertently be admitting that they are a White Nationalist or a Nazi in his eyes.

And who would want to confront an SJW with their real name anyway? Their single most powerful form of retribution is trying to doxx you on Google (hoping to make you unable to obtain an income via future employment) or to get you fired (removed from your chief source of income).

Only those who are financially resilient (Roosh, Milo, Cernovich, etc.) have the privilege to confront SJWs head-on with their real identity.

Tim is creating your standard two-choice false dilemma, implying that a vote for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders (multiracial democracy) will be leaps and bounds better than a supposedly fascist Donald Trump (white nationalism). However, anybody with half a brain knows that Donald Trump does not stand for white nationalism just because he wants to curtail illegal immigration and secure the borders.

Take a chill pill Timmy. Oh and please tell me, what makes a multiracial democracy any better than a monoracial democracy, such as those in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan? You know, countries which enjoy rock bottom crime rates, excellent social cohesion, proud and distinct ethnic cultures, and almost no racial discord or Islamic terrorism?

As you can clearly see, monoracial Asian nationalism has been toxic to these Taiwanese children, who cannot celebrate diversity in the same way that people in Paris, Orlando, or San Bernardino can. They will probably grow up to be unhappy, uncoordinated, undisciplined, bigoted, tattoo-free hooligans as adults.

A hasty generalization is a fallacy which isbased on making a hasty conclusion to an action or event with insufficient evidence, often while giving littleconsideration to other variables. These are usually variables which (of course) go against the narrative that the arguer is trying to espouse.

During the stupid Oscars So White controversy earlier this year, Tim is trying to imply that white folks would lose their minds and claim reverse racism if too many non-whites got Oscar nominations or awards. But has he completely forgotten that both Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won the best actor Oscars in 2002?

That would mean African-Americans won 50% of the acting awards that year, despite being just 13% of the US population, while also having considerable competition from white actors potentially hailing from other Anglosphere countries such as Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Last time I checked, most white folks during this period were very congratulatory of the two actors for their achievements, and did not lose their minds or claim reverse racism. They graciously accepted that two black actors were the best that the acting world had to offer in the preceding year.

According to Tim Wise, this image would have driven most white people insane in 2002

Last but not least, Tim Wise is cherry-picking data from theNew America Foundation(complete with image of Confederate flag to specifically try and implicate white Southerners), which is advancing the face-palm worthy narrative that white extremists are a far greater threat to the United States than Muslims.

Released in June 2015 (long before San Bernardino and Orlando), the foundation saysthat 48 people were killed by white terrorists, while 26 were killed by radical Islamists, since September 11th, 2001. Therefore, the narrative that looney leftists are trying to espouse is that white right wing groups are twice as likely to kill you than a Muslim extremist.

What the data does not tell you (beyond completely omitting 9/11 and the future Muslim mass shootings of San Bernardino and Orlando), is that Muslims are barely 1 percent of the US population while Non-Hispanic Whites are nearly 63 percent.

Therefore, even if twice as many terrorist deaths are caused by Americans of European descent up to this point, Muslim extremists are still killing people at a rate over30 times relative to their population.

Wow. Kind of purposefully avoided the demographic variable there didnt you Timmy boy? Oh and the New America Foundation website has now been updated, with Violent Jihadist Attacks now at 94 and Far Right Wing Attacks standing at 48.

Whose twice as likely to be the killer now ay? Per head of population, those numbers would now equate to a Muslim extremist death rate of over 100 times relative to Non-Hispanic Whites.

The Kingsmen know! Id better double down!

I find it incredibly difficult to imagine that Tim Wise actually believes in what he sells. Frankly, I think that he doesnt. He knows that what he is peddling is horse manure.

The narrative of doubling down on the white privilege-black victim ethos for his books and speeches is simply where he has carved out a lucrative niche, and has been very diligent and successful at it for many years. For that, I have to give the guy some credit.

However, as long as he wants to continue the bogus narratives and maintain a public figure, people are going to call him out on his fallacious twitter phlegm. Now then, whose next?

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Heroin awareness event in Fostoria set for Saturday – The Courier

By BRIAN BOHNERT FOR THE COURIER

FOSTORIA Several community leaders will come together Saturday with the hope of starting a new conversation about the impact of heroin abuse in America.

Start the Conversation: A day of heroin awareness education will take place from noon to midnight Saturday at Cowboys & Angels/Venue 18, 11295 W. Ohio 18.

Area experts, mental health professionals and recovering heroin addicts will be on hand for the all-day event in a collaborative effort to open peoples eyes to the devastating effects of opioid abuse.

I come from a background of education and awareness, and it seems to me this is the only way were going to make any kind of headway against this epidemic, said Ed Schetter, one of the organizers of the event. Once somebody picks it up and tries it for the first time, the odds are so stacked against them.

A total of 3,050 Ohioans died as a result of drug overdoses in 2015, an increase of 20.5 percent from 2014, according to the Ohio Department of Health. Heroin played a role in 46.7 percent of all overdose deaths that year, accounting for 1,424 fatalities on its own.

At 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Richie Webber, a 25-year-old recovering addict and mixed martial arts fighter, will discuss Fight For Recovery the nonprofit he founded to combat the heroin epidemic in northwestern Ohio.

At 2 p.m., Mircea Handru, executive director of the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board of Seneca, Sandusky and Wyandot Counties, will lead a discussion about the various resources available to addicts and their families.

At 3 p.m., Stacey Gibson with the Seneca County Board of Health will talk about how families can prevent drug abuse through open discussion.

Tim Wise, site director for Firelands Counseling and Recovery in Fremont, will speak at 4 p.m. regarding medication-assisted treatment, detox services and other treatment options. Koriann Evans, who has been in long-term recovery, will speak about breaking the silence, raising awareness and putting an end to stigma.

Her program begins at 5 p.m.

Tim Sarreshteh, whose daughter Rachael succumbed to her addiction on Aug. 14, 2016, will lead a motorcycle rally at 1 p.m. Saturday. Rachaels Ride will travel from Fostoria to the Viaduct Bar & Grill in Tiffin and to Brew U in Findlay before returning to Fostoria.

Registration will begin at 11 a.m. at Cowboys & Angels/Venue 18.

The event will conclude at Cowboys & Angels/Venue 18 with live music from Silence the Echoes, Bones of Giants, Autumn Burning and South-Carolina based Alice in Chains tribute band Grind.

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Rev Al Sharpton & East Orange City Council To Lead Love And Not-Hate March – Look To The Stars

Long before the tragic murders that shattered their peace occurred, Deborah and Dy-Shawn Simpkins were committed to providing kids with alternatives to street violence via their after-school and day care programs.

For over 15 years the couple has supported upwards of 650 youth through these services. Despite their devoted efforts, a senseless act of violence took the lives of their own son, Dy-Shawn Simpkins Jr., 18, along with their nephew Kee-Ayre Griffin, 29, who were killed in a triple shooting in East Orange. The senseless murders interrupted the promising lives of Simpkins, Jr with his athletic career at Norfolk State University; and of Griffin a former student athlete at Temple University.

Now everyone is asked to participate in a march with the core message the Love and Not Hate March & Movement. Organized by Simpkinss own nonprofit of seven years, the GAP Program (Gang Alternative Program), and other nonprofits collectively known as Community United As One. The group, along with the title sponsor, East Orange City Council, will use the march as a kickoff to an annual event that brings awareness to the ongoing violence epidemic.

Part of the march will culminate in a musical segment where Dy-Shawn Simpkins, Sr. will perform the song, Seeds in the Field that he recorded with his son before the tragedy. To bring enlightenment to the march, Al Sharpton has been invited to join the Simpkins on a lineup of pastors and political luminaries that include: Ted Green Council President and newly elected Mayor of East Orange, NJ, Reverend Timothy Huff, Irvington Mayor Tony Vauss, and Pastor Jerry Smith. Set to host the event is rap icon Vinnie Brown aka Uncle Vinnie from Grammy award winning hip hop trio Naughty by Nature.

The march will commence on Saturday, August 12th at 8:00 am with the start beginning at Hollywood Ave & Central Ave in East Orange, NJ. The march ends at Oval Park in East Orange, NJ. From there, all will celebrate the Community United As One day to bring about awareness from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm with events, music, food, youth activities, vendors, sports, back to school giveaways and more! Updates will be made via Simpkins social media accounts.

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Film Review: Good Time – Consequence of Sound (blog)

Director

Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie

Cast

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Pattinson, Barkhad Abdi

Like some of the best films about New York City, Good Time ably captures the constancy of movement at all hours of the night. Much of the films action takes place in half-empty hospitals and apartments and an amusement park after closing hours. Yet, in every case, somebody is still pulling a graveyard shift, getting high, looking out for their own, or just trying to get paid. That last bit is integral to Joshua and Ben Safdies harrowing single-night odyssey: were all hustling, in one way or another, all the time. Some are just a lot better at it than others.

Early on, it seems like Constantine Connie Nikas (Robert Pattinson) could be among the best. A straw-haired degenerate in an oversized hoodie, with wild eyes that exude canny survivalism and junkie panic in equal measures, Connie has bigger plans for himself and his brother, Nick (co-director Ben). An unnerving early sequence watches Nick, captured in the Safdies already-signature nauseating close-ups, as he attempts to work through a behavioral therapy session. Nick deals with some sort of neurological disability, but Connie refuses to allow his brother to be put through sessions that he finds both demeaning and upsetting to his brother. (For his part, Nicks difficulty with regard to even basic questions suggests that he absolutely should be getting more help than hes evidently had.) As Connie tells him, Its just you and me. Im your friend. Alright?

And then Connie and Nick don facial prosthetics and stage one of the more exhilarating bank robberies in recent cinematic history, made all the more so by the matter-of-fact staging with which its delivered. Good Time is a wandering film, and not all of its many digressions land. But the best ones, starting with the robbery and its screw-tightening aftermath, offer the kind of pure cinema capable of sending even the most jaded critics and audiences into fits of white-knuckle panic. Connie is simultaneously more shrewd than his wiry appearance would suggest and tragically over-convinced of his own genius. Soon an unexpected paint bag is triggered, Nick ends up in police custody and sent off to await trial on Rikers Island, and Connie is left to somehow obtain $10,000 for Nicks bail before things can get any worse.

Over the course of a night bathed in neon, pitch-darkness, and depravity, Connie encounters a number of fellow strays on his way to save Nick from the kind of hell that Connie himself has created for his brother. Good Time recalls the wearily hallucinatory qualities of other one-shot stories like Night on Earth and After Hours, but what the Safdies and co-screenwriter Ronald Bronstein accomplish here is a film of a distinctly filthy ilk. The Safdies exceptional 2015 feature Heaven Knows What displayed a similarly keen eye for the rituals of the day-at-a-time criminal, but where that film took a borderline anti-narrative approach to its travels alongside an unrepentant heroin addict, Good Time functions on more of a rail, albeit a ferocious one.

Good Time takes an episodic approach to Connies journey, and those episodes are consistently engaging, even as some of them occasionally threaten to leech away at the films breakneck momentum. One vignette involving a siege on a hospital leads to a remarkable gallows punchline. Connie finds a moment of respite with Crystal (Taliah Webster), an underage girl who recognizes Connies need for shelter as both suspicious and not worth causing too much trouble over. A security guard at that aforementioned theme park (Barkhad Abdi) finds himself with the severe misfortune of happening onto Connies barreling path. Some leave more of an impression than others; an encounter with a beaten parolee (Buddy Duress) leads to an onscreen digression so lengthy that it at once fits well within the films anything-goes rhythm and brings it to a near-complete halt. (Its nevertheless a damned funny few minutes of filmmaking, in a vacuum.) Connies frantic appeals to Corey (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a well-off but unreliable lover, feel equally at odds with the films central story, even if Leighs nervous performance serves as one of the films many deft methods of creating absolute unease.

The Safdies build a world of constant paranoia in every way, from the shaky handheld photography to the endless parade of strangers existing as possible would-be hazards. But the most exceptional method is the rattling, sumptuous score by Oneohtrix Point Never. That its easily the best compositional work to grace any 2017 film to date is secondary; this is one of those rare film scores that emerges as its own character, as integral to the success of Good Time as any of the films impressive performances. As the Safdies race from one stunning image to the next (a zoomed-out crane motif framing Connie as a constant rat in an overwhelming maze, a dark room lit solely by a grainy television), OPNs endless cycles of oppressive synths and dissonant electronic sounds conjure unease even in the most straightforward moments of respite. The score is a faithful mirror of Connies psyche, all panic and terror and fleeting instances of stoned, euphoric grandeur.

Good Time is a film of trembling anxiety, and while the score and the Safdies terrific direction both aid this, its Pattinsons outstanding performance that pins even the most outlandish occurrences to a deep sense of emotion. The actor, having long abandoned the days of stiff paycheck roles for increasingly ambitious fare, delivers a feral star turn that should more than silence any remaining skeptics. Like an animal, Connie simply reacts with an alarming lack of forethought, and Pattinson almost appears to be piecing each scene together as he goes along. But this is a meticulous performance; his slow crescendo of harrowing desperation builds to one lingering shot that builds a wealth of meaning out of the actors tightly framed visage, defining the entire film before it in a single image of Pattinsons face. In a world of near-anarchy, its Connie who holds it all together.

At one point in his journey, Connie asserts that something is happening to me tonight, and I feel like its deeply connected to my purpose. Its a purpose rife with drugs and exploitation and an inexplicable allusion to Pepe the Frog that will undoubtedly spur on many an addled debate in the coming weeks, but its a purpose that Connie pursues with alarming velocity. In its immersion in a world full of scrambling and sweat and constant alarm, Good Time observes something primal about the worlds that exist beneath the worlds in which so many other movies are made and viewed. Theres no time for thinking and even less for processing. You simply react until you cant any longer.

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