“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
- Daniel Kahneman
I have to be honest. It's bad enough having to deal with the racism that's already embedded and constantly being denied here without now being encouraged to be compassionate and show empathy to people who are in need but who hate your very existence.
📢New paper! In which I work through a lot of my uncomfortable observations since joining academia, examining the alarming-but-quiet capture of academic AI research by big tech, what this means for how and what we know about AI, and how we can resist.
https://t.co/WYUv91zy9L
When a white person says to me, “You’re so articulate,” I say, “Oh, I know. And that’s not the compliment you think it is.”
Stop “complimenting” us in disbelief.
Mina Smallman has been speaking to us about the murder of her daughters Nicole and Bibaa last June - you can hear her at 0730 #r4today https://t.co/nG7xQUcR16