a popular coffee shop chain I used to work at made me throw out perfectly good food instead of giving it to a homeless man because they said if people saw a homeless person eating Starbucks it would be a “bad look for the company” 🙃
BREAKING: Justice Department officials tell The Associated Press that Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion. https://t.co/aooTUMXQ8N
Twitter is just one example of racism manifesting in machine learning algorithms. Other examples:
Millions of Black people affected by racist healthcare algorithms: https://t.co/l9Mm69zc39
Racist predictive policing algorithms: https://t.co/NMl7YjIRmq
A friendly tweet to those who are feeling like they can't do anything. You can do one pretty easy thing. Stop using Amazon to buy things! It takes an extra five minutes to just punch into Google "the thing I want to buy" and buy it somewhere else. Luv ya. JEFF