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But in the United States, black people are incarcerated at six times the rate of white people—often because of historical biases in policing, from racial profiling to the dramatically more severe penalties for possession of crack compared with possession of cocaine (the same drug) throughout the 1980s and 1990s.3 So if you’re black—no matter how lawfully you act and how careful you are—you’re simply a lot more likely to know people who’ve been arrested. They’re your neighbor, your classmate, your dad.
“What if you could say ‘I want someone like my best engineer, but with more experience in management?’” 28 Well, if that query were based on word embeddings derived from historical texts—such as the résumés of engineers already on staff—you just might end up discarding applications from women engineers, because your training data connected the term “engineer”
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In February 2017, Yiannopoulos was also invited to speak at UC Berkeley—where, according to a number of media outlets, he planned to use his time on stage to reveal the names and personal information of students who are undocumented immigrants.12 He never got a chance: 1,500 people came to protest, and a small group of “black bloc” protesters—masked, anarchist demonstrators—
hello???
And who was stoking this movement? None other than Milo Yiannopoulos, who wrote a series of pro-Gamergate articles on Breitbart, using Twitter to specifically call out and threaten women involved.
this man is now my number one enemy
Zuckerberg himself wrote in a 5,000-word manifesto about the future of the company published in February 2017.51 He went on to talk about a future where Facebook AI listens in on conversations to identify potential terrorists, where elected officials hold meetings on Facebook, and where a “global safety infrastructure”
that's not concerning at all
