Years ago, I was struggling to prove myself in a mostly white field. I remember feeling defeated whenever I failed to get restroom sensors to work. How dumb do you have to be to not know how to use a faucet? It was *years* before I learned the sensors didn't work on dark skin.
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Replying to @kareem_carr
This was literally the plot of an episode of Better Off Tedhttps://youtu.be/XyXNmiTIupg
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kareem_carr
The whole building has been converted to operate using touch-free sensors that can't detect Black people so when the one Black scientist stays late the building shuts everything down and locks all the doors because the AI thinks it's empty
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kareem_carr
This was all I could think about reading this thread. I thought it was FICTIONAL. Holy crap, what a nightmare!
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Replying to @TweetsNoelle @kareem_carr
Lol nah the Better Off Ted writers were riffing on years' worth of viral stories up to this point I think they were specifically thinking of the viral HP webcam video
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Replying to @arthur_affect @kareem_carr
That is nuts. I have a whole new rabbit hole to go down.
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This is the HP webcam story from 2009, although there's a bunch of others https://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/22/hp.webcams/index.html …
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