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Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED
Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED
Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Diversity Training Company Uses White Actors In VR Sims
Mursion tells big corporate clients that its VR simulations will help teach racial sensitivity. But the actors playing its Black characters are often white.

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark White Supremacy and Artificial Intelligence - YES! Magazine
In her new book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, Ruha Benjamin breaks down the “New Jim Code,” technology design that promises a utopian future but serves racial…

May 1 2021, 5:55am | Comments
Syllabus Cache RESOURCE PORTAL ON ANTI-RACISM AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO ART HISTORY…
This portal contains hundreds of references arranged along subject, themes and media in eight bibliographies.

April 15 2021, 10:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Is Westernisation fact or fiction? The case of Japan and the US…
In 1860, Fukuzawa Yukichi, a young Japanese student still learning English himself, accompanied the first ever Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States as its English interpreter.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans - Scientific American
Computer-generated imagery is supposed to be one of the success stories of computer science. Starting in the 1970s, the algorithms for realistically depicting digital worlds were developed in a monumental joint…

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark How Memes, Lulz, and "Ironic" Bigotry Won the Internet - The Atlantic
In the 2010s, Hitler memes and “ironic” racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously? Updated at 4:00 a.m. ET on Oct. 4, 2020.

October 10 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Syllabus Cache anti-racist.fyi
Can I Share This Doc? Yes you may! No need to ask for permission. All I ask is that you give me credit wherever you post. Here’s the tinyurl: tinyurl.com/ybyjq3t7

June 16 2020, 4:59pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache The Black Curriculum
The Black Curriculum is a project that aims to teach Black history all year round in the school year, to 11 to 16-year-olds.

June 3 2020, 11:59am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Black Revolutionaries in the United States | communists in situ
Communist Interventions Vol. 2 (2016) Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

June 3 2020, 9:59am | Comments
Bookmark White Supremacy and Artificial Intelligence - Yes! Magazine
In her new book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, Ruha Benjamin breaks down the “New Jim Code,” technology design that promises a utopian future but serves racial…

December 2 2019, 6:25pm | Comments
Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life
Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

November 18 2019, 5:26am | Comments
Bookmark Why White Supremacists Are Hooked on Green Living | The New Republic
On Saturdays, Sarah Dye and her husband, Douglas Mackey, sell seasonal vegetables and eggs at a farmers’ market in Bloomington, Indiana. Sarah stands behind a stall piled high with heirloom tomatoes,…

September 26 2019, 5:36pm | Comments
Bookmark What Is Toxic White Feminism? - When Feminism Is White Supremacy
When I heard about the tragic murder of 18-year-old Nia Wilson, who was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack in Oakland last month, I could feel my heart begin to…

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark The racist language of space exploration | The Outline
On Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence, head of the National Space Council, outlined plans for creating the “Space Force” that President Donald Trump envisions as a space-dedicated military branch, complete with…

August 15 2018, 8:06am | Comments
Bookmark Google's solution to accidental algorithmic racism: ban gorillas | Technology | The…
After Google was criticised in 2015 for an image-recognition algorithm that auto-tagged pictures of black people as “gorillas”, the company promised “immediate action” to prevent any repetition of the error.

March 13 2018, 8:03am | Comments
Bookmark Black Atlantis - Viewpoint Magazine
This review of Marvel’s Black Panther is part of a forthcoming dossier on the political thought of Huey P. Newton. It contains spoilers.

March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments
Bookmark Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race | World…
On 22 February 2014, I published a post on my blog. I titled it “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race”. It read: “I’m no longer engaging with…

September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark Dialectic of Dark Enlightenments: The Alt-Right’s Place in the Culture Industry -…
IN Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right (Zero Books, 2017), Angela Nagle does two remarkable things.

August 6 2017, 11:35am | Comments
Bookmark The Uproar Over ‘Transracialism’
The world of academic philosophy is ordinarily a rather esoteric one. But Rebecca Tuvel’s article “In Defense of Transracialism,” published in the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia this spring, has generated a…

June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Decolonizing technology: A reading list | Beatrice Martini – blog
Western culture has long been defining how the world came to existence, its history, and how it works from a perspective which is centred on a Western and white point of view.

May 28 2017, 10:41am | Comments
Bookmark The ungrateful refugee: ‘We have no debt to repay’ | World news…
A few weeks ago I dusted off my expired Iranian passport photo, an unsmiling eight-year-old version of me – stunned, angry, wearing tight grey hijab and staring far beyond the camera.…

April 9 2017, 2:56am | Comments
Bookmark Writers of Color Continue to Wrestle With Lovecraft’s Racist Legacy | WIRED
H.P. Lovecraft is universally acknowledged as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, and references to his Cthulhu Mythos abound in contemporary culture. But Lovecraft was also…

January 13 2017, 5:50am | Comments
Bookmark Apocalypse Whatever — Real Life
Among the white nationalists on 4chan’s “politically incorrect,” or /pol/ board and on “alt-right” Twitter — or anywhere you might run into a picture of Pepe the Frog — there is…

December 14 2016, 9:56am | Comments
Bookmark How to Make a Bot That Isn't Racist | Motherboard
Really, really racist. The thing is, this was all very much preventable. I talked to some creators of Twitter bots about @TayandYou, and the consensus was that Microsoft had fallen far…

March 31 2016, 2:36am | Comments
Bookmark The ghost that haunts American literature: The genius & the repugnance of…
Howard Phillips Lovecraft will make you believe in ghosts. The legendary “cosmic horror” author has been dead for 78 years, and yet he continues to get more controversial by the day.

December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments
Bookmark Ferguson is the Future | Nassau Weekly
On September 14, I spent the day in the Chancellor Green Rotunda at the “Ferguson is the Future” Symposium, and I have spent every day since then trying to process the magnitude…

October 24 2015, 3:35am | Comments
Bookmark The Fantasy Author H.P. Lovecraft at 125: Genius, Cult Icon, Racist -…
American history is filled with writers whose genius was underappreciated—or altogether ignored—in their lifetime. Most of Emily Dickinson’s poems weren’t discovered and published until after her death. F. Scott Fitzgerald “died…

August 29 2015, 3:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Julian Hanna: Manifested - Berfrois
The so-called ‘Dylann Roof manifesto’ – the white supremacist material allegedly posted on a website by the Charleston church shooter – is only the latest example in a long line of…

July 1 2015, 1:01am | Comments
Bookmark When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like "Avatar"?
Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest…

December 23 2009, 2:24am | Comments

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