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Only a fourth paragraph before the lede is revealed: racial and gender biases!
by hoseja 4y ago
Only a fourth paragraph before the lede is revealed: racial and gender biases!
- mdp2021 4y agoI cannot imagine your reaction when you will arrive at the part where a pressure will be mentioned to «change "blacklist" to "blocklist"». Well, Andrew Tanenbaum remembered when at IBM he received a full explanation of why they felt very important his shirt should not just be of some specific colour, but of the specific shade of some colour. I would not say it is not part of the job: I would say it ["we feel it very important"] is part of "what happens".
- ogogmad 4y ago> it's worth mentioning that the white-box / black-box terminology is in itself part of a long history of racially coded terms in science; researchers have pushed to change "blacklist" to "blocklist," for example Attention, you peasants! Our overlords have decided for us that we may no longer say blackbox and whitebox. They have given us the following alternatives. You must all choose: - Glassbox vs magicbox - Openbox vs closedbox - A global find/replace on the word "black", because that might be easier at this point
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