My profile of @timnitGebru based on interviews & documents. In Oct, she was promoted & Jeff Dean asked her 2 look @ ethical risks of large language models. 6 weeks later she was fired
"How can you still ask why there aren’t Black women in this industry?” https://t.co/QRJmYpkSvJ
Y’all keep talking about the Tuskegee study w/o reading what happened
No one was *given* syphilis
Black cis men with syphilis already *were denied treatment*
We need to be more concerned about systemic racism/capitalism leading to medical neglect. It happens to us all the time
Another Black woman was ousted from Google for demanding genuine D&I efforts. What happened to @timnitGebru & @RealAbril exposes a larger issue.
My latest w/ @aprilaser highlights the institutionalized sexism/racism & the culture of fear rife at Google.
https://t.co/Ad5rnFAKGW
I’m not sure if everyone has seen this from June. I should create a thread like this for Google given they did this to me @RealAbril and I’m sure many others *after* they made similar “commitments” over the summer.
Spread the word: Berlin's first-ever doctor's office specializing in trans healthcare is now open in Neukölln's Schillerkiez. Marginalized individuals such as sex workers and HIV-positive patients also especially welcome. https://t.co/fr3XVtHxNa
So mesi che quando dico che devo lavorare mi rispondono “ellamadonna, ormai i libri li hai consegnati, che cazzo devi fa ancora” e io mi mozzico la lingua perché se lo dico mi deportano a Guantanamo.
Oggi è il giorno in cui finalmente posso rispondere: sto a fa questo.
I'm finna tell yall why @Google fired me- their MOST successful diversity recruiter in the history of their company- with the receipts to support that statement.
Full stop— We can’t prevent algorithmic bias in innovative tech if POC don’t have a seat at the table.
@RonWyden and I urged @Google CEO @sundarpichai to reaffirm his commitment to D&I and academic freedom. Now more than ever, @timnitGebru’s departure makes this work essential.
Addressing the legacy of eugenics in statistics will require asking many such difficult questions. Pretending to answer them under a veil of objectivity serves to dehumanize like the rhetoric of eugenics that facilitated practices like forced sterilization https://t.co/4yUBTH7Peb
When I say " I forget to reply messages because I have ADHD" I mean "An existential dread overwhelms my soul when I receive messages and the mere thought of replying makes my brain shut down in painful paralysis, then I forget I ever read it".