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Banchan Art is looking for a person with community manager + marketing skills to help us better engage with our community and to reach out to artists and clients who may benefit from our platform. 1/4

There are several interlocking kinds of nerd who want this shirt, I know it:

Picture of a magazine with title text reading "Time Special Edition: Artificial Intelligence: A New Age Of Possibilities," an several topic headlines, all over top of an "AI"-generated image of human eyebrow and eye, and the eye has a circuit board for an iris; a fedex envelope and desk are visible beneath the magazine

Text from magazine interior, reading, "Bias in the System: AIs, like people, can absorb prejudices & exacerbate problems instead of solving them. In this Q&A, Damien P. Williams, an expert on social justice, explains the issues & what we can do to push back."

You're hiring an assistant or considering candidates for a grant, & you'd like to make the best choice possible, free of emotion or any hidden bias you might have-so you turn to AI for help. But not so fast! Generative AI, trained on the massive flow of human language & culture across the internet, has already absorbed our biases, including the unconscious ones. & while developers are working to purge racism, sexism, & disdain for the disabled from their language models, they have a lot of work ahead, especially when it comes to more nuanced forms of discrimination we cannot always perceive. In the Q&A that follows, Pamela Weintraub discusses the entrenched biases still laced through emerging AI with Damien Patrick Williams, a data scientist & philosopher at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His particular focus: How AI & algorithms affect the lived experiences of marginalized people, & how we can set things right.

So I can finally tell you about one of the things I've been being SUPER impatient about:

If you're out in the world and happen to see a magazine with the words "Time," "Special Edition," "Artificial Intelligence," & "A New Age Of Possibilities" on the cover, you uhh… might wanna give pg 28 a look 👀

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Advertisers Don’t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist The 'Brand Safety' and 'Suitability' industries have financially crushed the news business by keeping ads away from articles that its 'sentiment analysis' algorithms think will make people sad or upse...

New: multiple sources, including executives, explain why sites like Jezebel are being shut down despite being very popular. The "brand safety" industry has created a paranoid environment where companies are not prepared to run ads next to important issues. www.404media.co/advertisers-...

Today's advice from your Goth Auntie
-Big stretch! Drink some water and take your meds.
-Anyone who expects you to be perfect is wrong. Yes, that includes yourself.
-The Cursed Object wants a gingerbread house large enough to hide in.
❤️Auntie Jilli

hello, good morning

i just witnessed someone use the acronym “bdsm” to mean “business development, sales, and marketing” and i have never been so glad to have my camera off

Also, it is really frustrating how much people justify not giving painkillers to women. I recently had an IUD put in, and even though I had taken four ibuprofen beforehand as my obgyn recommended, it was so incredibly uncomfortable that I came home and told my partner that I am never giving birth.

This is such a good and informative read. Thank you for writing it. I had no idea that when I heard about the horror of episiotomies that they had already severely dropped in practice.

The Dubious Feminism of the Natural Childbirth Movement Though it responds to a justified distrust of the medical establishment among women, it also subtly partakes of an insidious mythology.

“But the righteousness of the natural childbirth movement’s complaints about doctors can obscure the often essentialist assumptions about women that motivate its reasoning.” I wrote about the natural childbirth movement for @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Hey I could really use the help right now. I'm overdraft, got a massive overdue phone bill, and I'm really low on dog food. I'm trying to stay positive but im really struggling. If you've ever wanted art from me, now is the time. I'll even do illustrations. These last few months have destroyed me

For about 30 years of my life, I answered the question of “what does future me need?” with “just stop being such a fuck up!”

Once I started having compassion toward myself I was able to actually do things that were helpful.

It took me a very long time to understand that just because a condition is not always disabling does not mean that you are never dealing with a crushing disability.

I'm gonna say it again because motherfuckers still aren't listening.

You cannot provide a technological fix to what is ultimately a social problem. People behaving like assholes on your platform is a social problem that needs a social solution, not simply throwing more tech at it.

If you are not already aware that the little owl antennae are called “plumicorns” I would like to be the one who shared that information with you.

I mean, there's a HUGE and important distinction between "this is racist and I wanted it to be" and "this is racist? That's not what I wanted!" but that distinction is not "so actually it's not racist at all you idiot, you moron"

I haven't listened to it yet and so I don't know how good it is, but I just saw on my podcast app that npr lifekit has an episode posted this week about quitting dating apps. Mentioning it in case you find it useful.

NaNoWriMo doesn't have to be 50,000 words. The point is just to get you writing, and if that means you open up your draft every day and think about it a little, that can be your win!

Don't let huge goals dissuade you from smaller, attainable ones.

New people who bring something new who don’t take time to listen to people who are up to their ankles in the problem are not in fact bringing something new.

There are approximately zero instances where philanthropic dollars are best directed to a new organization run by You, The Person Fresh To The Problem instead of to a very exhausted person who's been doing the work on a shoestring with no resources for decades and knows the problem space

ive been called cringe for a decade and now im the worlds greatest author. cringe is what the folks drowning in irony call the sincerity they lost long ago and secretly wish they could reclaim but will never admit it to themselves

sometimes I imply things, Harold. I am aware that this is a risky approach on a website full of people who refuse to read and just skim for keywords, but I like to live dangerously

I just think Scholastic's CEO, Peter Warwick, who makes more than $3m/yr should donate his annual bonus of $1.25m to the fight against censorship. Maybe even directly to libraries or schools directly impacted.

We're past the point where a milquetoast press release about company values means shit.

You do not need to be a Zionist to think that Israelis deserve peace, safety, human rights and dignity. You do not need to be an antiZionist to believe Palestinians deserve peace, safety, human rights and dignity.