#Bias

Still really really uncomfortable with the way other white people are focusing on the wife of that pair in St Louis as if her husband wasn't RIGHT THERE with a
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About *that* Elsevier paper, in case you have lived under a rock and only today realised that science is racist.Science has always been a tool for power.Scientists have argued for
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The Shitty Tech Adoption Curve describes the process by which oppressive technology is normalized and distributed through all levels of society. The more privilege someone has, the harder it is
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It's been five days and people still hating Sunoo and calling him **cist. So this is THE THREAD, where me, An Indian, teaching desis and non desis on mudras and
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The world clearly needed another take on Twitter vs. Trump... Here's mine: Twitter is wrong but #Section230 is right. A quick thread on this week's developments. I'm sure many people
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Listening to @timnitGebru talk over lunch today with some @MathWorks colleagues, including @anoushnajarian ! The talk is "Hierarchy of Knowledge in Machine Learning & Related Fields & Its consequences".
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I get misogynistic and transphobic abuse online every single day, it's relentless and often plainly horrific, but honestly I can handle most of it. I think I'm pretty good at
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Good morning, there are new folks in the community who I'm sure dont know infosecs open secret. Let me catch you up... my reach is ni... 0, you see, and
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The Freedom Lovers would like state AGs to create lists of users who interact with certain content and add more regulations to private businesses, you see... Most of America doesn't
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Just noticed this Guardian piece from yesterday arguing that crowfunding carries the risk of reintroducing "Victorian" notions of the deserving versus undeserving poor (a point I've been arguing about the
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On Friday, my CEO mentioned #AhmaudArbrey by name in her weekly all-company video message. It meant the world to me. Has your workplace acknowledged Ahmaud? Here’s why so few will
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White folx:We need to do better.I'd like to start a thread here so we can talk. Let's share passages from Ms. Oluo's book and discuss. If you want to PM
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Tweetorial on going from regression to estimating causal effects with machine learning.I get a lot of questions from students regarding how to think about this *conceptually*, so this is a
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Top 5 Noggin Songs: the thread Number 5: Move and PlayNow we all know the day of play thing was bullshit, like why tf they did that anyways? However this
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1/ An interesting benefit of having written journals going back to 1979 (When I started keeping them at age 19) is a constant reminder of how it is a feature,
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I am sorry. I have let people down. I held an unconscious bias against disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent people that affected my actions, my decisions and my company. These
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