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guest post: artificial intelligence discovers gayface. sigh. – scatterplot

scatter.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/guest-post-artificial-intelligence-discovers-gayface-sigh/
The following is a guest post by Greggor Mattson. AI Can’t Tell if You’re Gay… But it Can Tell if You’re a Walking Stereotype. [First published September 9th. This post has been updated with subsequent information, denoted by square brackets, cited on this resource of responses to the story by tweeters, bloggers, media, and Kosinski himself].…

RegexHQ

github.com/regexhq
Collaboration on world-wide community-driven collections of RegExp patterns and tools that can make our life easier.

La gratuité, un projet de société (Le Monde diplomatique, octobre 2012)

monde-diplomatique.fr/2012/10/A/48285
D'Aubagne à Hasselt, de plus en plus nombreuses sont les communes européennes qui pratiquent la gratuité des transports publics. Peu connues, ces initiatives ont souvent rencontré l'hostilité, non seulement des milieux patronaux, mais également d'une partie de la population, pourtant sensibilisée aux idées progressistes. Sur le terrain, l'expérience est riche d'enseignements et incite à réfléchir au type de société que nous voulons construire.

Accessibility of PDFs - How to publish on GOV.UK - Guidance - GOV.UK

gov.uk/guidance/how-to-publish-on-gov-uk/accessible-pdfs
Guidance for government editors and publishers about how to create and edit documents and organisation pages.

Temp Mail - Disposable Temporary Email

temp-mail.org/
Keep spam out of your mail and stay safe - just use a disposable temporary email address! Protect your personal email address from spam with Temp-mail

We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs | Teen Vogue

teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs
In this op-ed, Lauren Michele Jackson tackles the recurring use of black people as reaction GIFs and its implications in terms of broader “digital blackface.”