fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo...
I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study
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You extra deserve that vacation under those circumstances! That sucks!
No. What people on the left need to see is journalists informing the public rather than performing press release as a service.
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
“At least six Canadian children, with birth years ranging from 2009 to 2024, were detained during the period. One Canadian child was held for 51 days — more than twice the 20-day limit set by a long-standing U.S. court-ordered agreement.”
Expert warns Canadians to not travel to the US:
It's so jarring to see how truly out of touch executives and upper management are, not just with what the public wants and expects, but with what their organizations actually even do
Not including DHH or RMS is disappointing.
It's here! "We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech" brings to life tales of the unsung heroes of responsible tech and the science fiction that inspired them.
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#TechJustice #EthicalSource #ResponsibleTech #TechEthics #TheFutureIsSoft
I keep seeing people saying “I don’t think I’m the kid of person who should be using a food bank” so I want to clear up what kind of people who should be using foodbanks:
ANY PERSON WHO NEEDS SOME FOOD
We had 100 people attend Data Umbrella ‘s December webinar:
Introduction to Git - Version Control Basics
And …. the video is now available❕
➡️ youtu.be/edCiPBn_dj8
The defensiveness and then radio silence of the team when it comes to critique or requests around anything difficult (racism, transphobia, ableism) is irresponsible, harmful, and downright insulting.
They built a platform on people who 1) live on the internet 2) are members of the most marginalized groups 3) are the world's best trolls and 4) staunch advocates and activists who 5) are fucking brilliant at organizing and 6) don't let shit go when people's lives are at stake. What did they expect.
ah jeez this is embarrassing… their “apology” forgot to include an apology in it! 🙈
for dropping this in the middle of the night three days after people called for a response, you’d think they could do better.
- **apologize** to Black users
- clear T&S hiring plan
- plan for future accountability
Are…
Are there Black people that work at Bluesky who are involved in moderation protocols or whatever? People. Not person. Multiple persons.
This.
There’s a lot of things that can give away indications. If hate speech isn’t tolerated, you would never incorporate this setting.
You would ban them at the door.
Thanks! Butterfly Mush was taking headshot commissions for a while before she moved to Columbia. https://shop.butterflymush.com/
I’m working on a story about student loan debt and hoping to speak with Black folks of all ages, socioeconomic backgrounds, etc., who have debt. If you’re interested, please send me an email at aallyah.wright@capitalbnews.org.
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If you are a person who provides technical support to survivors of abuse in an ad-hoc capacity and you would like to contribute to a set of shared resources for your counterparts all around the world, drop me an email at eva at eff dot org.
I'm hiring a Staff Developer Advocate (L6) who'll work directly with me to educate and enable developers seeking to build decentralized web apps!
Please repost for reach 🙏🏾
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Are you wanting to use a screen reader? TalkBack is Google's screen reader for Android devices and the most popular. When you go into accessibility settings on many Android phones talkback is there and has a tutorial. If you are wanting more dev material. I recommend Victoria Gonda's book.
It must be really strange to be a kid learning about the Civil Rights movement and see America doing the same thing to trans people but your teachers just ignore the connection in classes.
Have you ever had a coworker that mindlessly repeats whatever an exec says?
And have you ever had an exec that thinks that person is a genius?
Ok - you know understand LLMs.
You're welcome.
twitter and reddit beginning down the paths of self-destruction in the name of preventing scraping and AI abuse demonstrates that the solution to that problem is not going to be a primarily technological one
Lorielle Pankey isn’t (just) protecting her Meta investment by lying about Lina Khan; she’s also protecting her future job at Meta after this bullshit gets picked up by Republicans (and the WSJ which can’t stop lying about her either).
As well as @feerst.bsky.social and @dwillner.bsky.social and other task force members who may be on Bluesky that I missed?
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And check out the report!
If eagles start attacking private jets we’ll know these are coordinated animal attacks.
Omg
BEYOND proud to present "Beyond the Repository: Best practices for open source ecosystems researchers", a collaboration between myself, Amanda Casari, and Juniper Lovato that was just published in the the ACM Queue.
Please share!
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3595879