I really enjoyed an online lecture I attended last night by Dr. Ruha Benjamin, discussing the intersection between race and technology. I’ve been listening to a lot of talks about race this past year, and this has been one of…

MIT just deleted a huge dataset used for training AI because the dataset contained image labels with racist and misogynistic slurs. This type of dataset is used to “teach” other software what words to use when labeling photos. Racism and…

Today is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada, where Canadian politicians say how pleased they are that Canada doesn’t have systemic racism like the United States. (Spoiler alert: they’re wrong.) Canada urged to open its eyes to systemic racism in…

I grieve with you, Minneapolis. And I wanted to share this that I posted on social media earlier in response to someone’s comment. This is for anyone who hears “Black Lives Matter” and responds with “all lives matter” and that…