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@kinsale42@mstdn.games what a great movie!

@Nonilex@masto.ai Overton physics

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@gruber@mastodon.social masterful troll linking to Jason Snell's Macworld article. The only thing missing was Rick Astley.

@avidrissman@mas.to speaking of the 90s, whatever happened to the briefcase?

@sgt1372@sfba.social @drahardja@sfba.social studies show otherwise. Pardon the AI summary, but the cited sources are available for inspection: Studies supporting the “repeat player effect” Lisa Bingham’s early 1997 studies of AAA employment arbitration found employers attain more favorable outcomes in arbitration outside the collective bargaining context, attributing this partly to employers having more information for arbitrator selection and influence on arbitrators who may want to rule in the employer’s favor to be picked for future cases. Alexander Colvin’s 2011 study of employment arbitration case outcomes and processes is one of the most-cited empirical looks at this, building on Bingham’s work. A study by Shauhin Talesh and Peter Alter examined how arbitration system design and arbitrator training shape the extent to which repeat players gain advantages in arbitration hearings, based on observing actual hearings in private and state-run systems. Pushback on the effect itself It’s worth noting this isn’t settled science. A more recent, more rigorous study (Chandrasekher, via Columbia) found that Bingham’s early work relied on simple t-tests that provided only suggestive evidence, and that empirical research into the repeat player effect is still fairly embryonic — while several studies do show repeat-playing companies outperform one-shot litigants, this may stem more from company-specific characteristics than from systemic arbitration bias. Another critique argues the effect has achieved almost mythical status through studies that are as full of methodological holes as they are of supportable conclusions. A separate, less disputed finding Beyond win-rate comparisons, there’s strong evidence that forced arbitration suppresses claims from ever being filed at all — a large majority of people who face mandatory arbitration abandon their claims before filing, which some researchers argue is a bigger structural effect than any bias in the arbitrations that do happen. So: yes, real studies exist, several point toward a real tilt (via arbitrator selection, information asymmetry, and the incentive arbitrators have to please repeat corporate clients), but methodologically rigorous critics argue the size and even the existence of a genuine “bias” effect (versus other confounds) is still debated among researchers. Bingham (1997) — “Employment Arbitration: The Repeat Player Effect,” Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1324411 • Colvin (2011) — “An Empirical Study of Employment Arbitration: Case Outcomes and Processes,” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies: https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/articles/577 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-1461.2010.01200.x) • Talesh & Alter — “The Devil Is in the Details: How Arbitration System Design and Training Facilitate and Inhibit Repeat Player Advantages”: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228160017_Employment_Arbitration_The_Repeat_Player_Effect • Chandrasekher (2019) — critical re-examination of the repeat-player literature, Columbia Law & Economics: https://law-economic-studies.law.columbia.edu/sites/law-economic-studies.law.columbia.edu/files/content/docs/Chandrasekher_Arbitration_10_22_19.pdf • “The Suspicious Existence of the ‘Repeat Player Effect’” — National Law Review: https://natlawreview.com/article/suspicious-existence-repeat-player-effect-mandatory-arbitration-employment-disputes • Wikipedia summary page (good overview with further citations): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeat-player_effect • Harvard Law Systemic Justice Project — “Clauses and Consent: How Forced Arbitration Quietly Took Over Everything”: https://systemicjustice.org/article/clauses-and-consent-how-forced-arbitration-quietly-took-over-everything/

@sgt1372@sfba.social @drahardja@sfba.social designed to be fair to all parties? Since when? Typically the arbitrator is selected by the business and paid by the business.

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@DS90210@mastodon.social

@bagder@mastodon.social unmasking is always disappointing, but it’s the company you keep and they’re now telling us who they are.

@realtegan@wandering.shop let’s start at the top

@cdarwin@c.im how about some actual ICE arrests, starting with the murderers

@drahardja@sfba.social @mwichary@mastodon.online @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social I’m pretty sure that for Bell Labs and their secret sauce that Woz used to bring the Apple ][ to life

@Nonilex@masto.ai what a maroon

@anotherdaniel@chaos.social @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social obviously not the *same* Europe!

@daringfireball@mastodon.social predicting a bit of a firestorm on this one

@tinker@infosec.exchange it is ironic and seeming un-self-aware to disclaim “social warrior” nearness when, c’mon, what is Linux if not a social warrior product?

@tinker@infosec.exchange and when the model runs entirely on my own machine?

@tinker@infosec.exchange I’m not seeing much daylight between what you said no to and what you go on to describe as the issue.

@tinker@infosec.exchange I’m trying to understand something that seems unspoken here. Is the fundamental issue a premise that AI is evil, therefore anyone who doesn’t reject it is corrupt? I’m seriously just trying to make sure I understand what I’m reading.

@Nonilex@masto.ai go ahead and make the coin, it will just fuel the No Kings movement like crazy

@annmlipton@esq.social um…

@Nonilex@masto.ai how’s he supposed to collect his vig now???

@drahardja@sfba.social shows how much TeamGOP cares about qualifications

@drahardja@sfba.social seems a little low for full racks but perhaps that’s offset by aisleways, loading docks, halls, storage, etc…

@Nonilex@masto.ai found the newspaper: WaPo from today https://dedq39jz5ilmb.cloudfront.net/20260712/B01_M2_EZ_DAILY_20260712.pdf

@Nonilex@masto.ai even your framing lends credence to what is clearly a speculative claim

@Nonilex@masto.ai AP doesn’t even show the provided photo?

@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social @Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu beats the alternative!

@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social that judge have a law license? Because some bar association may want to take a closer look at some bar exam results.

@gooba42@mastodon.social @blogdiva@mastodon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org star-bellied Sneeches

@UlrikNyman@mastodon.social @cdarwin@c.im I didn’t suggest that companies are moral. They are, in fact, without morals. They are, however, not unaware of public criticism and disgust. When the laws fail us (and they always will because there will always be cretins who work to find loopholes), we as a society need to be prepared to take up the slack and punish the abusers.

@cdarwin@c.im it’s the companies that will exploit this that we need to identify, track, shame, and shun

@EugeneMcParland@mastodon.ie war crimes

@carnage4life@mas.to not for nothing, but antichrists are defined in the New Testament, and many had already stepped forward at the time of the writing of the New Testament letters.

@carnage4life@mas.to are anti-christs known to be self-aware?

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social literally dozens(!) of people have a special place in their hearts for “USEFUL!” and “MARKETING!” and “SOURCE!”

@timbray@cosocial.ca can you run your own with Tailscale?

Proper care is what it takes for good outcomes. Sick people need proper care. https://48hills.org/2026/05/letters-luries-reset-center-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen/

@0xabad1dea indeed! empathy and understanding open doors to love

@jon@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net my browser isn’t. I guess it’s not “most every other browser” (even though it’s on over a billion devices)

@fuzzface@epsilon-ix.masto.host the solution is to require funcation safety engineering, with a trained assessor to certify its safe design before it's put into operation.

@Bibliothecaris@social.edu.nl NL leads!

@Pheebe@tech.lgbt @s0@cathode.church came here to make sure this got said!

@dangoodin https://www.wired.com/2012/10/joe-postel/ (sic; wow, how did Wired botch that URL so badly?)

@nullagent clearly that horse has more sense than its rider

@mac84tv@bitbang.social sure hope you’ve got System Tune-up 1.1.1

@mac84tv@bitbang.social thx

@mac84tv@bitbang.social which virus?

@me@social.taupehat.com @stoneymonster@stoney.monster can it possibly know how to utilize the girdle spring?