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by charlescearl 5y ago
Basically groups may have physical characteristics. European nations starting from at least the 1500s began using these physical/religious groupings to mark certain groups for predatory expropriation and premature death. To quote Ruth
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by charlescearl 5y ago
Tawana Petty https://tawanapetty.org/ is a Detroit based activist who has been at the fore front of the movement addressing algorithmic bias in policing. In a country based on the precept that all Black people are the “bad
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by charlescearl 5y ago
Curious to see how regulations upon “servant economy” (I think this is just old-fashioned expropriation / “primitive accumulation” at work) capitalism will play out in a nominally socialist context. Regulators in China have begun tight
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by charlescearl 5y ago
Most likely the count is based on the life of Alexandre Dumas father General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. As told in The Black Count https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Count:_Glory,_Revo... , Napoleon had conspired to
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by charlescearl 5y ago
Is there a comprehensive analysis of the use of drones in policing. Further, are there analyses of the way in which private security companies (G4S) are employing drones in their operations?
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by charlescearl 6y ago
As someone whose great uncles worked in the steel factories nearby, whose parents before that labored in the cotton fields, I can also testify the multi-century efforts of Black workers who fought the “hands that was fedding them”. America&
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by charlescearl 6y ago
The disparities in access to COVID vaccinations as of the time I’m writing this should tell you that this is still happening.
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by charlescearl 6y ago
As a Black data scientist I will say that words have power. That naming things has power. That acknowledging the depth of white supremacy, its depravity, and need to utterly and completely remove it and all of its vestiges is the most impor
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by charlescearl 6y ago
Perhaps some of the perspectives offered are discounting the role that gender, race, immigration status, national origin play. I have witnessed comparable levels of abuse and discrimination across academia and industry - woman grad student
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by charlescearl 6y ago
I have found the China Neican newsletter [1] to have insightful, contextualized critique of CCP as well as critique of the US+Australian critique. [1] https://www.neican.org
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by charlescearl 6y ago
Thanks for the reference. Another algorithms text -- though Haskell centric -- that provides solutions is Algorithm Design With Haskell [1]. The exhaustive Combinatorial Mathematics by Douglas West [2] provides hints at least. These are adv
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by charlescearl 6y ago
"To save lives in 2021, we need urgent action to restore proactive policing to its pre-protest levels." So we're at stop-and-frisk again. Without a thought of examining the expansion of social services before subjecting commu
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by charlescearl 6y ago
It serves to unite people around a clear and visceral goal. The anger that brought many of us together to remove the enslaver statues left behind networks that brought the son of sharecroppers to the senate in my state. And the networks are
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by charlescearl 6y ago
There are a wealth of proposals. For example https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/letters-prison/... which links to on-going projects. Many begin with the questions of what are prisons for? What is po
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by charlescearl 6y ago
Ruth Wilson Gilmore [1,2], Angela Davis [3.4] and many, many others have been making the case for decades that the entirety of the prison system needs to be abolished. Among the more profound cases that Gilmore makes is that the it is not j
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by charlescearl 6y ago
Some more links provided at a NeurIPS tutorial this week https://explainml-tutorial.github.io/papers I saw the first paper mentioned in the tutorial chat. What is your impression of anchor? https://github.com&#x2
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by charlescearl 6y ago
Yes, we can use data science to discern the values (i.e. politics) inherent in AI research [1]. Also, "beyond the pale" [2] stems from the area enforced during the tsarist era of Russia (1791 - 1917) beyond which Jews were not all
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by charlescearl 6y ago
Good points. With respect to Mandela, it is also important to acknowledge all of the "anonymous" ANC members, students, SACP members, trade unionists, etc who worked independently and in coordination every day, and gave their last
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by charlescearl 6y ago
On the other hand, there are 40+ million U.S. citizens, of African origin, each with at least one ancestor at the bottom of the Atlantic due to the capitalist trans-Atlantic slave trade. Enslaved for four centuries, building capitalist Amer
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by charlescearl 6y ago
“the American Black”. Yes, there Black people from Africa, from all over Africa that are still thinking about decolonization. Today. A couple of interesting pieces: https://abebabirhane.wordpress.com/2019/07/10&#x2
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by charlescearl 6y ago
I’m sorry if you interpreted my comments in this way. My point was precisely the one that you seem to make, that in that in the English medium schools, this nuanced history was not conveyed, and that is the problem. In fact, my wife’s famil
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by charlescearl 6y ago
I think that the article was so insightful in complexifying the experience of racism that Black people still encounter across this planet. There are a 100 million ways of existing in a Black body in this world. I am reading Yaa Gyasi’s ama
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by charlescearl 6y ago
My spouse grew up in Botswana. Despite living a few miles from the site of the first known location of a religious ceremony of our species —- in other words a place of transcendent human history, of Black history —- it was always the coloni
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by charlescearl 6y ago
If you have come to a point of discomfort in seeing Marxism discussed within the context of Black Lives Matter, then you are where you need to be. Sit with it. It is a radical movement, the larger goal of which, discussed in [1,2], is the c
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by charlescearl 6y ago
If you fail to understand how so many Indigenous and Black people of this country view it with such contempt, I would recommend a few reads. But first I would ask you to consider that whatever greatness it can claim lies not in it’s continu
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by charlescearl 6y ago
My 13 year old and I have through parts of the first three chapters of "An Illustrated Theory of Numbers". I would reckon that if your student is motivated and at upper high school level, they would have the sophistication to go a
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by charlescearl 6y ago
One side of my family was literally freed when Sherman’s army arrived in town (Covington, GA). I long imagined what a conversation between the two “sides” of the family would be. A great grandfather’s father was his enslaver. If the South g
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by charlescearl 6y ago
There are many “Souths”. Since we are on the subject of James Baldwin, i would recommend his essay collection “Nobody Knows My Name”. The essay itself is insightful even today into the killing of Rayshard Brooks, the subsequent uprising, an
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by charlescearl 6y ago
Organizations now carrying on the work of documenting Black life through the data science lens include: Just Data Lab, https://www.thejustdatalab.com/team Data For Black Lives, http://d4bl.org/ Detroit Tech
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by charlescearl 6y ago
Beautiful! In the spirit of supporting Black devs and W.E.B., feel free to DM or post cashapp or other link. Or even even that of an organization if you prefer.

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