Person-Centered Terms Encourage Stigmatized Groups’ Trust in News
“Participants trusted articles that used person-centered terms for their group more than articles that used stigmatizing terms.” Understandably. #Media [Link]
Some principles
Open, collaborative protocols > centralized services. Impact on people > impact on capital. Impact on communities > impact on individuals. Human rights > capital rights. Distributed equity > limited ownership. Distributing equity > adding value to exclusionary systems. Sustainability > get-rich-quick. Building value > building wealth. Serving underlying human needs
Opening the Pandora's Box of AI Art
“I’ve never felt so conflicted using an emerging technology as DALL-E 2, which feels like borderline magic in what it’s capable of conjuring, but raises so many ethical questions, it’s hard to keep track of them all.” #Technology [Link]
More Than Half Of All Bitcoin Trades Are Fake
“More than half of all reported trading volume is likely to be fake or non-economic. Forbes estimates the global daily bitcoin volume for the industry was $128 billion on June 14. That is 51% less than the $262 billion one would get by taking the sum of self-reported volume from
Listen up: Podcasts are coming to Twitter
What’s Odeo is new again. #Technology [Link]
California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars
“The rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, will require that all new cars sold in the state by 2035 be free of greenhouse gas emissions like carbon dioxide. The rule also sets interim targets, requiring that 35 percent of new passenger vehicles sold by 2026 produce zero emissions.
The baby stack
In the spirit of Uses This, here’s what the baby stack looks like right now, a week or two before birth: Hardware Uppababy Cruz. An adaptable folding stroller. What’s super-cool about it is that it supports a bassinet as well as a seat, and can also support an
Queer YA books are selling in record numbers despite bans targeting them
“Of the close to 5 million units of LGBTQ+ books sold in 2021, the biggest absolute gains in this market came from LGBTQ+ YA books, which saw an increase in sales of 1.3 million units from the previous year. Queer YA is more popular than ever — no longer a
Creeping American fascism
As America becomes more diverse, and as a direct consequence more inclusive, it unfortunately makes sense that more people will come out of the woodwork suggesting that people who aren’t white and male be disenfranchised. This is a racist country, after all. And that’s exactly what’s happening.
People of color at 'New York Times' get lower ratings in job reviews, union says
“While there were some fluctuation — on average, the performance of Black employees rose over the intervening years, while it declined for Latinos at the organization — white workers were consistently assessed as outperforming their peers.” #Media [Link]
Bay Area tech startup Sanas wants people to sound whiter
“Experts who spoke to SFGATE were troubled by Sanas’ emphasis on people in the Global South making themselves understood to Americans, as opposed to Americans accepting other accented voices.” Indeed. #Technology [Link]
Whistleblower: Twitter misled investors, FTC and underplayed spam issues
“Twitter is grossly negligent in several areas of information security. If these problems are not corrected, regulators, media and users of the platform will be shocked when they inevitably learn about Twitter’s severe lack of security basics.” #Technology [Link]