May 6th, 2021 — Uncategorized
- Algorithmic injustice: a relational ethics approach
It has become trivial to point out that algorithmic systems increasingly pervade the
social sphere. Improved efficiencyâthe hallmark of these systemsâdrives their mass
integration into day-to-day life. However, as a robust body of research in the area
of algorithmic injustice shows, algorithmic systems, especially when used to sort
and predict social outcomes, are not only inadequate but also perpetuate harm. In
particular, a persistent and recurrent trend within the literature indicates that
society’s most vulnerable are disproportionally impacted. When algorithmic injustice
and harm are brought to the fore, most of the solutions on offer (1) revolve around
technical solutions and (2) do not center disproportionally impacted communities.
This paper proposes a fundamental shiftâfrom rational to relationalâin thinking about
personhood, data sciences, justice, and everything in between, and places ethics as
something that goes above and beyond technical solutions. Outlining the idea of ethics
built on the foundations of relationality, this paper calls for a rethinking of justice
and ethics as a set of broad, contingent, and fluid concepts and down-to-earth practices
that are best viewed as a habit and not a mere methodology for data science. As such,
this paper mainly offers critical examinations and reflection and not âsolutions.â
- US Mulling Domestic Spying Partnership with Private Companies
- Constitutional Challenges Loom Over Proposed Voting Bill
The sprawling legislation, known as H.R. 1, could result in lawsuits leading to a dozen Supreme Court cases, legal experts said.
- Why not turn our airfields into solar farms?
- (400) https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1389640079342190595
RT @raycorrigan: "The way most of the internet works today would be considered intolerable if translated into comprehensible real world analogs, but it endures because it is invisible."
- (400) https://twitter.com/jbkrell/status/1389719926181613573
RT @JInterlandi: Good thread here for anyone wondering why Moderna patent promise is effectively useless:
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- ‘I’d Never Been Involved in Anything as Secret as This’ – POLITICO
RT @nycsouthpaw: I read this paragraph and wished that I had happened upon it with zero context, so that I how I have determined to give it to you.
- (400) https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1389014340427190273/photo/1
RT @nycsouthpaw: I read this paragraph and wished that I had happened upon it with zero context, so that I how I have determined to give it to you.
- A Photographer’s Old College Classmates, Back Then and Now
The portraits in âReunion,â taken during junior year of college and fifteen years after graduation, deliver a visual consistency that feels both plain and profound.
- Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice | The New Yorker
Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice | The New Yorker
- (400) https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1388594078837878788/photo/1
RT @emollick: Tired: startups using machine learning to detect cancer in scans with 90% accuracy.
Wired: startups using flocks of pigeons to detect cancer in scans, with 99% accuracy.
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/the-politicians-who-tried-to-overturn-an-election–and-the-local-news-team-that-wont-let-anyone-forget-it/2021/05/01/cc8764f6-a91e-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html?tid=ss_tw
RT @deborahblum: First class piece by @sulliview and a reminder that while these journalists are getting it right, the big newspapers & broadcaster are often not. The politicians who tried to overturn an election — and the local news team that won’t let anyone forget it
- Can the Climate-Friendly Grain Kernza Finally Hit the Big Time? | Civil Eats
With $10 million in new funding, farmers, researchers, and restaurants aim to bring the perennial grain grown for bread, cereal, beer, and more to the masses.
- Policy assessments for the carbon emission flows and sustainability of Bitcoin blockchain operation in China
- simonw/til
- Pigeons (Columba livia) as Trainable Observers of Pathology and Radiology Breast Cancer Images
RT @emollick: Tired: startups using machine learning to detect cancer in scans with 90% accuracy.
Wired: startups using flocks of pigeons to detect cancer in scans, with 99% accuracy.
- (400) https://twitter.com/Sulliview/status/1388810213600505858
RT @jayrosen_nyu: Public broadcaster @WITF in Pennsylvania has been the leader here, as @sulliview says. The fact that no national broadcaster or newspaper has followed them yet — and taken up their "never forget" policy — is sad to the point of being pathetic.
- Is Coffee Good for You? (Published 2020)
Yes! But it depends on the kind of coffee and the quantity.
- Internal Combustion Engine – Bartosz Ciechanowski
- How to Beat Burnout — Without Quitting Your Job
Weâre all feeling a little fried at work and home. But there are ways to stay sharp and recharge.
- (400) https://twitter.com/amygdala/status/1388881478080151552/photo/1
India’s COVID-19 Crisis Is the World’s Crisis
- (400) https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/1388880603379027968/photo/1
RT @sfmnemonic: (Dammit, this is where he gives away the secret to everything.) John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons”
- (400) https://twitter.com/KFosterStomberg/status/1388209346648084483/photo/1
RT @KFosterStomberg: The underside of the Washington St bridge has taken a strong anti-NFT stance
- ‘It’s like a rotting carcass of its former self’: funeral for an Oregon glacier | US news | The Guardian
‘It’s like a rotting carcass of its former self’: funeral for an Oregon glacier
- (400) https://twitter.com/pkedrosky/status/1388877468052819973/photo/1
RT @pkedrosky: tl;dr: A sharp increase in social instability after pandemics has been a pattern through history, and we should expect nothing different this time.
COVID-19 and the Potential Consequences for Social Stability
- COVID-19 and the Potential Consequences for Social Stability
RT @pkedrosky: tl;dr: A sharp increase in social instability after pandemics has been a pattern through history, and we should expect nothing different this time.
COVID-19 and the Potential Consequences for Social Stability
- Perspective | The politicians who tried to overturn an election — and the local news team that won’t let anyone forget it
While Sunday shows keep booking the lawmakers who undermined democracy, one public radio station set out to keep that fact in the foreground.
- John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons”
The first major interview with one of the most revered comedy writers of all time.
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- (400) https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1387570363127767043/photo/1
RT @jonathanchait: Republicans are charging Biden with sneaking a radical agenda past the voters who didn’t want it. But all his proposals were in his campaign platform and are extremely popular.
- (400) https://twitter.com/julianzelizer/status/1387580156127154186/photo/1
RT @julianzelizer: From the archives
- Untitled (https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/health/health-department-announces-confidential-covid-19-testing-data-for-thousands-of-residents-was-compromised/article_0f081096-628d-58b1-97f2-4707d082618a.html)
RT @derekwillis: <sharp intake of breath>
- (400) https://twitter.com/derekwillis/status/1387455369526616064/photo/1
RT @derekwillis: <sharp intake of breath>
- Scientists detected racial bias in a product sold by Optum, but the problem likely extends to algorithms used by major health systems and insurers – The Washington Post
- Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’
- (400) https://twitter.com/SlenderSherbet/status/1387506156201988099/photo/1
RT @SlenderSherbet: Chat, le grand illusionniste.
📸: Reddit user artbartram
- (400) https://twitter.com/The_Lunar_Tick/status/1387449982073122820/photo/1
RT @The_Lunar_Tick: @kairyssdal His famous picture of everyone else in the universe.
- (400) https://twitter.com/MovingImageNYC/status/1387159266159730696/photo/1
RT @MovingImageNYC:
- (400) https://twitter.com/UPROXX/status/1387130686495248384
RT @MovingImageNYC:
- Biden’s Two-Part Economic Strategy Was Years in the Making
A demand-side agenda plus a supply-side agenda to push the poorest half up the ladder.
- Transform – Acceptiva
RT @franck_boulegue: Matt Zoller Seitz’s wife Nancy Dawson died a year ago. She cofounded Transform, a nonprofit that gives free clothes and makeovers to transgender youth seeking a new look to compliment their new identity. You can donate here: @mattzollerseitz
- 🚨 What really happened at Basecamp
How a list of "funny" customer names triggered an internal reckoning
- Funeral pyres burn. Gravediggers know no rest. India's COVID-19 crisis is a 'nightmare' — Los Angeles Times
Infections and deaths continue to climb at alarming rates as India’s second COVID-19 wave threatens to topple its healthcare system.
- Blake Bailey’s Life as a Man
- (400) https://twitter.com/bethreinhard/status/1387394975206367234
RT @bethreinhard: This is same group that Ted Cruz has been cozy w/ for yrs…
- (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/ted-cruz-maintains-ties-to-right-wing-group-despite-its-extremist-messaging/2021/04/23/64387376-8e58-11eb-aff6-4f720ca2d479_story.html
RT @bethreinhard: This is same group that Ted Cruz has been cozy w/ for yrs…
- Getaway
86. This time you tell yourself you’ll stay put like you were told to. Sit with the engine idling and bide your
- Biden to propose free preschool as part of American Families Plan – MarketWatch
RT @kylegriffin1: Biden will call for free preschool for all three- and four-year-old children, a $200 billion investment to be rolled out in his American Families Plan.
The admin said the investment would benefit 5 million children and save the average family $13,000.
- Supporting India during the current COVID crisis
RT @sundarpichai: Devastated to see the worsening Covid crisis in India. Google & Googlers are providing Rs 135 Crore in funding to @GiveIndia, @UNICEF for medical supplies, orgs supporting high-risk communities, and grants to help spread critical information.
- (400) https://twitter.com/moylato/status/1387139670962843658
RT @BrandyLJensen: i was immediately like “how does he get out of the car” and the answer is quite satisfying
- (400) https://twitter.com/Jake_Wolff/status/1326193156086505481
RT @RSmythFreelance: I do hope all other writers are still as haunted by this tweet as I am.
- On the Counterintuitive Appeal of the Literary Time Loop
- My Octopus Girlfriend
In the eyes of a dilettante like me, the entire world of octopodia—from Hokusai to William Burroughs—appears as one big sprawling tapestry of sexual titillation and deliquescence.
- Gurugram: No ambulance, families carry Covid-19 victims in autos, private vehicles for cremation – Coronavirus Outbreak News
RT @IndiaToday: Families are forced to carry #Covid19 victims in auto-rickshaws and private vehicles for cremation in the absence of ambulances in #Gurugram | #coronavirus | @TanushreePande
- (500) https://apne.ws/WkTfWPI
RT @AP: BREAKING: FBI announces federal civil rights investigation into fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., the Black man killed by North Carolina deputies. An independent autopsy shows that he was shot five times, including in the back of the head.
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