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๐ blog! โYet another AI Racism exampleโ
Here's a good pub-quiz trivia question - which Oscar-winning Actors have appeared in Doctor Who? It's the sort of thing that you can either wrack your brains for, or construct a SPARQL Query for WikiData0. I was bored and asked ChatGPT. The new Omni model claims to be faster and more accurate. But, in my [โฆ]
๐ Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/yet-another-ai-racism-example/
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#DoctorWho #racism
"People keep asking, given who Donald Trump obviously is (and what his party obviously is), by comparison with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, how can this race possibly be so close?
Brad Bannon has an answer.
From the time Trump first emerged on the scene as a candidate in 2016, the votes of non-college-educated whites have gone heavily to him, and they continue to go heavily to him.
#Trump #KamalaHarris #education #racism #misogyny #xenophobia #authoritarianism
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https://thehill.com/opinion/4864752-tight-race-swing-state-polls/amp/
#rightWing reacts to the #Minecraft #movie
#republicans #conservative #racism #woke #videoGames #comic #gaming
โMolson Coors sent a memo to employees Tuesday saying it will stop linking executive compensation to employee representation, scrap supplier diversity goals, and no longer engage with the Human Rights Campaignโs corporate rankings.โ
Coors Beer Maker Joins Ford, Loweโs in #Diversity Retreat https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-03/coors-beer-maker-joins-ford-lowe-s-in-dei-retreat-amid-backlash
#news #homophobia #transphobia #racism #WallStreet #DEI #LGBTQIA+ #politics #USpol
"In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist." โAngela Davis
#cat #catsoffediverse #catsofpixelfed #angeladavis #racism #antiracism #federatedfloofs
I wish upon the new French government many dark nights, urgent bowel movements, bare feet and floors covered in lego.
And something about their children disowning them.
TIL In 1954, Woody Guthrie wrote (but never recorded) a song protesting Fred Trump's racist housing practices.
(Apple does not fall far from the tree, no?)
I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
He stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_Trump
(several folks have recorded it since -- the Ryan Harvey/Ani DiFranco/Tom Morello version is great)
Racist signs targeting migrants, Harris posted at Denver area bus stops
https://www.denverpost.com/2024/08/29/kamala-harris-bus-stop-signs-denver-rtd-police-immigration/
Hey, Coke is still sponsoring that anti-intellectual right-wing racist conflab coming up - https://canadastrongandfree.network/date/canada-strong-and-free-regional-networking-conference-2024/
You can see them listed as a silver sponsor.
Let them know what you think:
#LLM devs and fans: "The programming is throwing out a #racist model? There must be something wro..."
Me, interupting: "Something wrong with the society it trained from! Yes! Thank you!"
#Racism
#CriticalRaceTheory
#CRT
Elliot Kirschner offers a sobering meditation on a powerful image from the DNC, Todd Heisler's photo of Kamala Harris' great-niece Amara Ajagu watching her great-aunt accept the presidential nomination:
"What we do know is that the presidential campaign is also being shaped by countervailing forces that represent the very opposite of what was captured in this now-iconic photograph."
A advocacy group promoting racism is having success convincing large companies to reduce or eliminate DEI programs. #Racism #Equity #Workers #USPol https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/08/26/lowes-dei-program-robby-starbuck-campaign/74958176007/
> "The World Bank Group had already reduced its paid marketing on X while working with the platform to implement the strongest safety protocols X offers for our content," a spokesperson for the #WorldBank told CBS News on Friday, adding: "This latest incident is entirely unacceptable, and we are immediately ceasing all paid marketing on #X."
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/world-bank-advertising-elon-musk-x-racism-pro-nazi-accounts/
"When Usha Vance spoke about her husband at the Republican National Convention, describing how J.D. Vance adapted to her immigrant culture, even learning to cook Indian food from her mother, I recognized a type that we first-generation Indian Americans have quietly acknowledged for decades: the Good White Son-in-Law."
#aapi #aanhpi #racism #discrimination #elections #elections2024 #USpol
> A 30-foot #Confederate obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908 previously stood in Decatur Square for more than 110 years.
> It featured text inscriptions on all four sides of its base, celebrating the ideals of the #Confederacy. The inscriptions claimed those who erected the monument were bearing witness to the future, unaware it would one day be torn down, replaced by a new symbol of peace and progress
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/24/us/john-lewis-statue-atlanta-confederate/index.html
