Racquel Simone

Don’t forget to pay attention to your local elections in these coming months and years. Don’t grow apathetic, vote (pretty please).

No matter how good you think you are, you gotta be coachable if you want to get better.

Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?

Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.

It was meh and the lighting wore me out.

LeBron: “I love the NFL, but Christmas is our day.”

STRAIGHT UP FACTS!!!

Hmmm their episode of “How I Built This” popped up for me the other day. Let me go bookmark it so I can listen.

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Yes. Lol. Mostly if I see something I want to pop the CSS hood on.

Huge red flag any time a company refers to their workforce as family. Not only can family members be dysfunctional AF, this is clearly a business. Just say that and treat your people well.

“i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live”
— Nikki Giovanni

Finally replaced my airpods. I have to have them for flights. Also need them for the days I want to work out of the coffee shop instead of home. Airpod pro’s noise cancellation is elite, but the latest version of noise cancellation for the newest non-pro airpods will suffice.

Saturday nights are for being indulgent.

This has been one hell of a year.

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It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about bias and AI.

Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini

And many many more within/outside academia.

Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
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Using the past to inform the future. Second Resurgence of the Klan 1915 William Joseph Simmons revived the Klan after the release of Birth of A Nation, the second resurgence added targeting of Catholics, Jewish people, and immigrants, to its anti-Black violence. 1918 Flu - Pandemic End of Pandemic 1918 What is deemed as al "Spanish Flu" due to a few different racialized narratives hits the world in Spring 1918 post WWI. Three large waves. It infects 10 Million Americans, killing 740k. 1921 The last large wave of the 1918 flu happens in Winter of 1920, cases trail off after then as a result of widespread immunity. The KKK engineers elections 1925 Membership got as high as eight million Klansmen. The Klan placed enough Klansmen in positions of power to control state governments across the country. It| was known as the "Invisible Empire" Stock Market Crash and Great Depression 1929 The roaring 20's are a product of isolation that happens from the flu and alcohol prohibition. Stock market crashes in October of 1929 and kicks off the great depression. New Deal Politics 1933 It takes us until 1933 to kickoff the New Deal even though the country has been hobbled since 1918.

I have been walking around with this slide for four years, trying to explain to anyone who would listen that we are choosing the same path right now.

The thing that separates a useful tool from an abuse of data is, and always remains, CONSENT. Does the tool take someone's work and put it outside their control? If it does, it's theft, and you should not do it to someone who has not indicated they don't consider that use theft.

How to Stay and Grow in Tech (especially if you're a minority) The de-evolution of "breaking into tech" "Break into tech" started as a well-intentioned...

“Breaking in” to tech is hard, but staying and growing in tech is harder. We never really talk about it, so I wrote a long blog post sharing why i think it’s hard and how to navigate tech.

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The older you get, the more you realize that you can have it all… just not all at once. Life is all about seasons.

Yall need to be clear.

All the time. Every time.

Reminder: you don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it, you don’t have to get better at it, you don’t have to monetize it, and it doesn’t have to be useful.

A dream means nothing if you leave it in bed when you get up in the morning.

Good

Finding out Teedra Moses has a Tiny Desk coming was a good way to start off the week.

10-1!!

Go Lions!

(Also please everyone be ok for Thursday)