Sublime

some of the very people who are developing search algorithms and architecture are willing to promote sexist and racist attitudes openly at work and beyond, while we are supposed to believe that these same employees are developing “neutral” or “objective” decision-making tools.

This lasting faith in Google has bolstered its reputation and disguised its flaws. In her book Algorithms of Oppression, internet studies scholar Safiya Noble highlighted cases of “algorithmically driven data failures that are specific to people of color and women.” The book outlined the structural ways that racism and sexism are fundamental to sea

how Blackness is selectively celebrated (and contained) within the white imagination.

While we often think of terms such as “big data” and “algorithms” as being benign, neutral, or objective, they are anything but. The people who make these decisions hold all types of values, many of which openly promote racism, sexism, and false notions of meritocracy, which is well documented in studies of Silicon Valley and other tech corridors.

On the Internet and in our everyday uses of technology, discrimination is also embedded in computer code and, increasingly, in artificial intelligence technologies that we are reliant on, by choice or not. I believe that artificial intelligence will become a major human rights issue in the twenty-first century. We are only beginning to understand t

body shame was a tool of White supremacist, capitalist patriarchy.

internet sociologist Zeynep Tufekci

We sought to make sense of our unique paradox: We have never been more empowered and yet, in many ways, are still so disenfranchised. Social media has granted Black folks a platform to tell our own stories, but it has also made us subject to a new brand of surveillance and unprecedented co-option. How can we find innovative ways to define ourselves