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Individuals in the richest 1% emit 100x more carbon than the average poor person. Climate breakdown is class warfare.

(This is actually the same argument I have against basically every universal basic income proposal I have seen so far)

It's not that "bias is bad". It's that certain biases that continue or strengthen existing kinds of marginalization are bad. We actually want certain biases. Or we should want them. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Biasing software against marginalized groups is a big problem. Biasing it towards the needs of marginalized groups or against those in power can be extremely important.

"Remove all bias" is the rephrasing of "treat everyone the same to be fair". But that's bogus. People are not the same, have different needs and positions in society.

The debate on "AI" and algorithms often focuses on bias. Especially the liberally minded people argue to "remove bias as much as possible if not completely". I think that is in a way anti-political.

you cannot convince me that amazon prime original series aren't all money laundering schemes. they have 40 shows and i've never heard a single human being talk about any of them

The WHOLE POINT of pointing out the failure of facial recognition on people of color and Black people specifically is not to correct it: correcting it adds more tools to the oppression we experience daily. The point is that there is NOTHING beyond racism. (1/n)

Say what you will about Vox, but it's founders sure seem to be comfortable driving traffic (and legitimacy) to right-wing hate sites as long as they've got something to promote.

in other words, "they should test this better" is a technical fix pretending to be a social fix