Pretty big news: The next version of @uscensusbureau's weekly Pulse survey--measuring the impact of the pandemic including income loss, mental health, and food/housing instability--will finally collect respondent's sexual orientation or gender identity

The Trump experience has soured me on fascism

🤔 the financial pressure of COVID will reshape corporate research priorities in AI in enormously revealing ways: was the commitment to funding ML fairness work genuine, or cosmetic? how much of the funding on building general systems was just a luxury plaything?