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What’s Happening in #Kansas Should Alarm Us All

… #Fascism usually begins with redefining the nation by excluding certain groups, which are branded threats to national health & unity. The #Trump admin has fixated on two groups most of all — #immigrants & #trans people — in just this way, smearing [them]… as predatory, sick, at once subhuman & terrifyingly powerful.

#law #discrimination #bigotry #ignorance #hate #Nazis
nytimes.com/2026/08/13/opinion…

'Who Brings ID to a Swimming Pool?': Black Man Says He Was Asked to Prove Residency at His Own Apartment Complex's Pool While His Children Watched

#PoliceIntervention #CivilRights #Discrimination #RaceAndRacism #ApartmentComplexLife

dailydot.com/who-brings-id-to-…

‘Who Brings ID to a Swimming Pool?’: Black Man Says He Was Asked to Prove Residency at His Own Apartment Complex’s Pool While His Children Watched

A man says a woman and police were called on his family at an Illinois apartment pool after she demanded ID to prove residency.

^{Sayantan (The Daily Dot)}

AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring

The models were even more likely to stereotype people by demographic group than the human participants in the original study.

Because LLMs “really are eager to create generalizations from limited data”

#bias #discrimination #hiring #jobs #hr #artificialintelligence #ai #technology #tech

technologyreview.com/2026/07/2…

AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring

AI doesn’t just learn stereotypes from its training. It can cook up new ones, too.

^{Michelle Kim (MIT Technology Review)}