N-gated Hacker News<p>🚨Ah, the ancient art of blaming <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JavaScript</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cookies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cookies</span></a> for all evils. Apparently, racial bias is now hiding in plain sight, but you'll need to summon the mystical powers of JS to see it. 🍪 Because data without cookies is like a fortune cookie without a fortune—utterly pointless. 🥠<br><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp5357" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc</span><span class="invisible">e.adp5357</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechHumor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechHumor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>
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Jonathan Emmesedi<p>What's the use of a police watchdog that will not even consider the possiblity of racial bias in a horrific case like this?</p><p>Actor Reece Richards condemns police watchdog over race decision on arrest | Independent Office for Police Conduct | The Guardian</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/30/actor-reece-richards-condemns-police-watchdog-over-race-decision-on-arrest" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ar/30/actor-reece-richards-condemns-police-watchdog-over-race-decision-on-arrest</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/ReeceRichards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReeceRichards</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MetropolitanPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MetropolitanPolice</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Police</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IndependentOffoceForPoliceConduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndependentOffoceForPoliceConduct</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IOPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IOPC</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>BBC: Google agrees to pay $28m in racial bias lawsuit. “Google has agreed to pay $28m (£21.5m) to settle a lawsuit that claimed white and Asian employees were given better pay and career opportunities than workers from other ethnic backgrounds, a law firm representing claimants says. The technology giant confirmed it had ‘reached a resolution’ but rejected the allegations made against it.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/20/bbc-google-agrees-to-pay-28m-in-racial-bias-lawsuit/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/20/bbc-google-agrees-to-pay-28m-in-racial-bias-lawsuit/</a></p>
Pavid Dreston<p>I think my maths is reasonably correct. Just watching the Women's Champion League game between Real Madrid and Arsenal and it seems that so far in this game that the overwhelming minority racially (4.5%) of the players is the best rated goal scorer. I don't bet on the tournament but with these stats and the bookies odds generally betting on black is often a good move.The pitch is also in a terrible state <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/football" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>football</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/soccer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>soccer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womenschampionsleague" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenschampionsleague</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racialbias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racialbias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whitegirls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whitegirls</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/halftime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>halftime</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>How to Build a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Human</span></a></p><p>A <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Forensics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Forensics</span></a> Company Tells <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Cops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cops</span></a> It Can Use <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNA</span></a> to Predict a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Suspect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suspect</span></a>’s Face. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scientists</span></a> Worry the Tool Will Deepen <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/02/forensic-dna-phenotyping-parabon-nanolabs-police/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/02/02/fo</span><span class="invisible">rensic-dna-phenotyping-parabon-nanolabs-police/</span></a></p>
PsyPost<p>Diversity initiatives heighten perceptions of anti-White bias <a href="https://www.psypost.org/diversity-initiatives-heighten-perceptions-of-anti-white-bias/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/diversity-initiati</span><span class="invisible">ves-heighten-perceptions-of-anti-white-bias/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Diversity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialJustice</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inclusion</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AntiBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiBias</span></a></p>
Killer Rabbit 90<p>The LA Fires Exposed the Inequity at the Heart of GoFundMe <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/01/24/gofundme-la-eaton-fire-altadena-disaster-crowdfunding/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/01/24/go</span><span class="invisible">fundme-la-eaton-fire-altadena-disaster-crowdfunding/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LosAngelesWildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngelesWildfires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RacialInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialInequity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoFundMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoFundMe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fundraising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fundraising</span></a></p>
HumanRights&Business<p>‘Amazon has…made several…internal changes, including removing statements advocating for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTQrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQrights</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racialequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racialequity</span></a> from its public listing of corporate policies... <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a>’s website previously stated the company…supported “legislation to combat misconduct & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racialbias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racialbias</span></a> in policing, efforts to protect & expand voting rights, & initiatives that provide better health & educational outcomes for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a> people.” This section has…been deleted.’ | Irish Star <a href="https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/jeff-bezos-deletes-lgbtq-rights-34533955" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">irishstar.com/news/us-news/jef</span><span class="invisible">f-bezos-deletes-lgbtq-rights-34533955</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bizhumanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bizhumanrights</span></a></p>
Larry Neufeld<p>Racial bias in AI should be the immediate concern <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/racialbias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racialbias</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a><br><a href="https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2024/ai-racial-bias/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">policyoptions.irpp.org/magazin</span><span class="invisible">es/december-2024/ai-racial-bias/</span></a></p>
Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)<p>BDG feature: Alvin Ailey at the Whitney Museum: Black History and Liberation in Motion</p><p>Read here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/49tknfpa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/49tknfpa</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>buddhism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/engagedbuddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engagedbuddhism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/equality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>equality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>race</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/exhibition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exhibition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialchange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racialbias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racialbias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nyc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newyork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newyork</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/whitneymuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whitneymuseum</span></a></p>
Anne Fausto Sterling<p>Racial bias can taint the academic tenure process—at one particular point<br>Black and Hispanic professors fare worse when voters include colleagues who are less familiar with their work, new study finds</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/tenure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tenure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/racialbias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racialbias</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/racial-bias-can-taint-academic-tenure-process-one-particular-point" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/ra</span><span class="invisible">cial-bias-can-taint-academic-tenure-process-one-particular-point</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>Countless <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericans</span></a> had openly opposed the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnamWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnamWar</span></a>. As early as 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee produced a statement that unequivocally lambasted the war, and said that no Black American should “fight in Vietnam for the white man's freedom, until all the Negro people are free in Mississippi."</p><p>Still, thanks to the draft's implicit <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a> , Black Americans disproportionately served in Vietnam. This is largely because then-college students — the majority of whom were white men — could defer enlistment. As such, the burden of enlistment fell more on non-college educated men, particularly non college-educated <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackMen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMen</span></a>. As a result, by 1967, 64 percent of all eligible Black American males had been drafted. Only 31 percent of eligible white men had.</p><p>Photo from Life Magazine archives.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/BlackAmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SystematicRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SystematicRacism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WhitePrivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhitePrivilege</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/KKKAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KKKAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MilitaryDraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryDraft</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RacistUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacistUSA</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopAllWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopAllWars</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarIsHell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarIsHell</span></a></p>
PsyPost<p>Racial bias in social media connections crosses political lines, study finds <a href="https://www.psypost.org/racial-bias-in-social-media-connections-crosses-political-lines-study-finds/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">psypost.org/racial-bias-in-soc</span><span class="invisible">ial-media-connections-crosses-political-lines-study-finds/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TwitterExperiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TwitterExperiment</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PoliticalLines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalLines</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BlackAccounts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAccounts</span></a></p>
AutisticMumTo3<p>Phoenix officers repeatedly punch, Taser deaf Black man with cerebral palsy<br> <a href="https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/phoenix-officer-repeatedly-punch-taser-deaf-black-man-with-cerebral-palsy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc15.com/news/local-news/inve</span><span class="invisible">stigations/phoenix-officer-repeatedly-punch-taser-deaf-black-man-with-cerebral-palsy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ableism</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Deaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deaf</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/CerebralPalsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CerebralPalsy</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Police</span></a></p>
Michael Fauscette<p>ChatBlackGPT founder Erin Reddick is tackling AI's racial bias with culturally inclusive innovation<br /><a href="https://zurl.co/pyge" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">zurl.co/pyge</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br /><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>genai</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/racialbias" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>racialbias</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@OldSquida2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>OldSquida2</span></a></span> OMG! This Dougan fellow is not only <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a>, he is being hailed as a "hero" in Russia! He's as evil as they come! Wow!!! </p><p>"After a four-year stint in the Marine Corps, which he claims he offered to join in lieu of a jail sentence for fleeing a police stop for speeding on a motorcycle, he became a police officer first in a small force in Mangonia Park, Fla., and then the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office from 2005 to 2009.</p><p>"According to news reports and his own accounts over the years, Mr. Dougan repeatedly clashed with superiors and colleagues, facing numerous internal investigations that he said were retaliatory because he objected to police <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/misconduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misconduct</span></a>, including instances of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a>. </p><p>"In 2009, he moved briefly to Windham, Maine, to work in another small-town police department. There he faced a complaint of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SexualHarassment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SexualHarassment</span></a> that resulted in his dismissal before he completed his probationary period.</p><p>"Mr. Dougan started a website called WindhamTalk to defend himself. The website foreshadowed others he would create, including one devoted to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, PBSOTalk. </p><p>"After moving back to Florida, he used PBSOTalk to torment in particular the department’s elected sheriff, Ric L. Bradshaw, whom he accused of corruption. He posted the unlawful recordings of “Jessica” chatting with a former detective commander, Mark Lewis, who, Mr. Dougan claimed, was investigating the sheriff’s critics, including himself. As Mr. Dougan acknowledged in a video interview last year, it is illegal in Florida to record a telephone conversation without permission.</p><p>"In a statement, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Office, Therese C. Barbera, said Mr. Dougan was “a wanted felon for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cyberstalking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyberstalking</span></a> using unsubstantiated and fabricated claims that have NO factual basis.”</p><p>"In February 2016, PBSOTalk posted confidential information about thousands of police officers, federal agents and judges. The next month, F.B.I. agents and local police officers searched Mr. Dougan’s home, seizing all of his electronic equipment. </p><p>"Fearing arrest, he said, he made his way to Canada and caught a flight to Moscow. He was indicted on the 21 Florida felony charges the next year.</p><p>"In Russia, Mr. Dougan refashioned himself as a kind of journalist, documenting his travels around the country, including Lake Baikal in Siberia and Crimea, the peninsula in Ukraine that Russia annexed in 2014 in violation of international law. </p><p>"He posted photographs and videos from those trips on YouTube, which suspended his channel after NewsGuard’s report last year. He also appeared regularly on state media, including with two former intelligence operatives, Maria Butina, who penetrated Republican political circles, and Anna Chapman, one of 10 spies who inspired the television series “The Americans.”</p><p>"In 2021, as Mr. Putin began mobilizing the military forces that would invade Ukraine, Mr. Dougan posted a video that the Kremlin would cite as one justification for its attack. In it, he claimed that the United States operated biological weapons factories in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>, an accusation that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> and its allies have pushed without ever providing evidence.<br>Once the war started, Mr. Dougan recounted in his written responses to questions, he traveled to Ukraine 14 times to report from the Russian side of the front lines. He appeared in Russian government hearings purporting to expose Ukraine’s transgressions, indicating some level of cooperation with the government authorities. </p><p>"He has faced criticism for the reports, including in a profile in The Daily Beast, that he posted on YouTube and other platforms. Mr. Dougan has portrayed the war much as Russia’s propaganda has: as a righteous battle against neo-Nazis [ironic] backed by a decadent West, led by the United States and NATO."</p><p><a href="https://archive.ph/yRR7x#selection-3595.0-3741.235" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.ph/yRR7x#selection-359</span><span class="invisible">5.0-3741.235</span></a></p>
CP93<p>Dear Anglos who want to know "why [do] anime characters look white?"</p><p>1. They don't. I bet you subconsciously assume a stick figure looks like you as well.</p><p>2. They have hair dye and tinted contact lenses in Japan too, you know.</p><p>3. It's a cartoon, for cryin' out loud.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/anime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anime</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a></p>
AutisticMumTo3<p>Black menopausal women almost 5 times less likely to be on HRT than white women | The Independent<br> <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/menopause-hormone-replacement-therapy-hrt-b2535389.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/uk/home</span><span class="invisible">-news/menopause-hormone-replacement-therapy-hrt-b2535389.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Black</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/HRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HRT</span></a><br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/HealthCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthCare</span></a> <br><a href="https://leftist.network/tags/Menopause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Menopause</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"A Māori mum misidentified as a trespassed 'thief' at a Rotorua supermarket trialling facial recognition technology says she felt 'racially discriminated' against and embarrassed during the 'horrible' birthday incident."</p><p><a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/supermarket-facial-recognition-trial-rotorua-mothers-discrimination-ordeal/IK4ZEJHLQVFRLMDE6LX4AR57PE/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-p</span><span class="invisible">ost/news/supermarket-facial-recognition-trial-rotorua-mothers-discrimination-ordeal/IK4ZEJHLQVFRLMDE6LX4AR57PE/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/RacialBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RacialBias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FacialRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FacialRecognition</span></a></p>
Unofficial PetaPixel Bot<p>Meta’s AI Image Generator Is Horrible at Generating Mixed-Race Couples <a href="https://petapixel.com/2024/04/04/metas-ai-image-generator-is-horrible-at-generating-mixed-race-couples/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petapixel.com/2024/04/04/metas</span><span class="invisible">-ai-image-generator-is-horrible-at-generating-mixed-race-couples/</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/aiimagegenerator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aiimagegenerator</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/controversy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>controversy</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/racialbias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racialbias</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/bias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bias</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a> <a href="https://toot.earth/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a></p>
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