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It's alive: "Disability in the new workplace: What companies need to know and do" is out. Read it to learn about the harmful ableist myths that are part of our norms and interactions. And importantly, what you and your company can do to dismantle them.
Ableism at work: We analyzed survey data and interviewed experts to describe how workplaces need to rebuild culture and improve accommodations to benefit everyone. Read our report by
@dragonaire
@mckensiemack
@ekp
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Suddenly reporters, editors, social media platforms have figured out how to cover lies and misinformation just in time for the end of his term.
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I'm sure sexual assault charges in the military would decrease if men didn't serve
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When reddit banned revenge porn and other unauthorized sharing of nude photos, a coworker told me that her sister's 16 year old best friend died by suicide after her ex shared her nude photos. I thought about her today instead of reading an article that seems to "both sides"
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I am obligated to call you out: You should have shut down the_donald instead of amplifying it and its hate, racism, and violence. So much of what is happening now lies at your feet. You don't get to say BLM when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all day long
"As Snoos, we do not tolerate hate, racism, and violence, and while we have work to do to fight these on our platform, our values are clear."
A letter from CEO Steve Huffman.
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One of the biggest lies from social networks is that it's too hard to remove toxic content. They're doing it now; they could have been doing it from the start.
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"if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”
― Toni Morrison
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It's all true: Everything is fake. Also mobile user counts are fake. No one has figured out how to count logged-out mobile users, as I learned at reddit. Every time someone switches cell towers, it looks like another user and inflates company user metrics
The numbers are all fking fake, the metrics are bullshit, the agencies responsible for enforcing good practices are knowing bullshiters enforcing and profiting off all the fake numbers and none of the models make sense at scale of actual human users.
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Tech companies: We tolerate harassment and hate so we can enable political dissent, public squares, free speech
Also tech companies: Censor the Hong Kong protestors and kill all their communication channels
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This Uber article is brutal. "Uber's most important innovation has been to produce staggering levels of private wealth without creating any sustainable benefits for consumers, workers, the cities they serve, or anyone else"
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Unlimited PTO
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When Facebook says it's too hard to remove fake news and hate, they're lying: Only 12 people are responsible for 65% of the lies about vaccines
2/3 of the unvaccinated believe one of 5 falsehoods
The number one place the unvaccinated say they get their info is social media
12 people on social media are responsible for 65% of the falsehoods 6/
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Sigh. Beto is like the board members who tell CEOs to add diversity to the board--but are unwilling to step aside to make room
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Women at my VC firm did not share their pregnancies for as long as possible, because we feared being treated unfairly. When I had a miscarriage, no one at work knew I was pregnant; I went back to work soon afterward and never talked about it there
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CEOs of big tech companies: You almost certainly have incels as employees. What are you going to do about it?
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I was called an ungrateful complainer when I asked for more money at work
Women Do Ask for More Money at Work. They Just Don’t Get It.
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Mailchimp just got bought for $12 billion, and employees own no equity
JUST IN: Mailchimp has been acquired by Intuit for $12 billion — the biggest-ever deal for a privately-held bootstrapped company, as Mailchimp took no outside funding since its 2001 founding.
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Instead of publishing any more "Why I'm Leaving SF" essays, people can simply tweet the name of the startup that broke them
Instead of publishing any more “Why I’m Leaving New York” essays, people can simply tweet the number or letter of the subway line that broke them.
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After I sued Kleiner Perkins, venture capitalists said they were less likely to hire women (lawsuits! uncomfortable!). The numbers showed it wasn't true: From 2014 to 2019 the number of firms with women partners grew from 139 to 214. Uncomfortable is just another word for biased
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I once had to correct 3 managing partners at Kleiner (where Vinod started in VC) about the simple supply and demand curve, and they wouldn't believe me until finally I told them I got an A+ from
@benbernanke
in basic economics and also studied under Paul Volcker. Change is good
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It’s heartening and disheartening to see companies now so quickly do what they said was impossible a couple of weeks ago
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@llafreniere
people work so hard to protect the opportunities and feelings of white men who do harm
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This is how women and especially WOC get trapped. The boss won't let you leave, but won't acknowledge you, promote you, pay you fairly, recommend you, give you credit, or value you. He needs you but can't admit it.
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Facebook's CEO isn't very familiar with his site
"The stories that get the most reach on a day to day basis are the same things that people talk about in the mainstream. They're not highly partisan political issues-it's just meaningful news that's happening on a day-to-day basis"
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"I don't have time or energy to deal with a breathing Dunning-Kruger graph"
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Algorithms aren't racist. They're racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, transphobic and more. And it comes from tech's homogeneity
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“Dissent is a part of Reddit and the foundation of democracy. Reddit is a place for open and authentic discussion and debate,” Huffman said in a thread that is locked, preventing Reddit users from replying to him directly. 🧐
Reddit CEO rejects call for a crackdown on coronavirus misinformation
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Wow, this is actually really big for privacy and security. I wish credit card companies would provide throwaway credit card numbers for online purchases
Apple will provide an option to provide anonymized throwaway email addresses to users for apps
Adtech isn't gonna like this lol
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You know it's just a PR move when the people who most need the money aren't eligible
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Listen to
@AOC
rightly move the Overton window on climate: "We are facing a national crisis... Science should not be partisan... If we are more willing to invest in bailing out big banks that we are in our farmers and our urban families, then I don't know what we're here doing."
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When firms say they've never received a complaint as they fire someone for harassment, it means they have made it clear to all their employees that they don't care and not to bother
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So excited to be part of this next chapter for
@shondaland
and
@shondarhimes
! I could not imagine a better team or home for "Reset" with
@BeersBetsy
and
@alisoneakle
Netflix & Shondaland have acquired the rights to
@ekp
’s groundbreaking "Reset" memoir, detailing her life and career, including the lawsuit she brought against her former employer that shook Silicon Valley to its boys’ club core and pre-saged the Time’s Up movement.
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Tesla segregated Black workers into separate areas that its employees referred to as “porch monkey stations,” “the dark side,” “the slave ship” and “the plantation,” the lawsuit alleges.
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Over the 10 days I caught up with two friends. Each independently mentioned the lack positive feedback from their managers--one finally got some after 20 years when she was leaving; the other never got any. We all need to remember to tell people when they do a great job
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I've renamed them all Thisday and Thatday
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$1,042 in customer payments for 46 orders, and the restaurant got less than $400 of it
The owner of
@ChiPizzaBoss
shared this nightmarish Grubhub invoice that will haunt me for days.
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Every voice makes a difference. Kudos to the 350 employees at Twitter who spoke up to ban Trump
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And when you work with a lot of Black and brown founders, you can't unsee how much worse they are treated in the venture community, even the women in venture. Everyone needs to take a look at themselves. Invest in women, people of color, and esp women of color.
when you work with a lot of female founders you can't unsee how they are treated by the venture community.
even the "good guys".
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I have only seen two posts about this ridiculous level of corruption today but 100s more focused on whether Dems plan to increase size of the Supreme Court
Tax records show 200 entities funneled money to Trump properties while reaping benefits from White House: report
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I wish all the social media sites would follow Pinterest's lead
What you see when you search for coronavirus or COVID-19 on Pinterest: "we've limited search results to Pins from internationally-recognized health organizations."
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Kudos to
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Don't you think most of the kids knew? They knew they weren't on the sports team "recruiting" them. They knew they were taking fake photos of themselves playing that sport. They knew their SAT scores were higher than they should have been. I don't feel sorry for them. Don't @ me
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Reminder: Elon Musk runs a racism- and racist-filled company with no interest in changing
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Stages of getting startups to prioritize D&I:
1. Diversity and what?
2. Politely, no, we believe in the tech meritocracy
3. Neat, but we only care about women
4. What's the one thing we need to do?
5. Sure if you volunteer for free
6. Wow, is white backlash real?
7. Help! Now!
Stages of bringing new technology to market:
1. "Oh hell no."
2. "Politely, no, that technology would never work here."
4. "Neat, but not a priority for us."
5. "Maybe!"
6. "Actually nope, no budget."
7. "Well this is compelling."
8. "Where were you years ago?"
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I'm proud to endorse Senator Warren for President along with over 140 AAPI leaders. I believe she is the only remaining candidate who understands and cares about intersectionality and won't leave anyone behind.
#AAPIsWithWarren
#WithWarren
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It's heartbreaking and infuriating to read about what looks like a hate crime against Asian American women. But it's encouraging and inspiring to see so many voices from so many communities unified in our call for justice
#StopAsianHate
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Happy International Women's Day to all the Black, Indigenous, Latinx and Asian American women who have no representation on their companies' executive teams or boards and have to watch performative inclusion today
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A college sophomore did a better job addressing this situation with grace and courage than the BYU athletic director with 30 years of coaching experience who couldn't say "racism" and the volleyball coach with almost 20 years of experience who bailed on their meeting
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"white male participants had a tendency to double down on errors"
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The company that builds a top-to-bottom diverse and inclusive team in AI is going to get rich
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Tesla jury awards $6.9 million in emotional distress-related damages and $130 million in punitive damages to employee for racial harassment and a hostile work environment
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To the too many people who need to hear it: We are not past diversity or inclusion. You can't skip diversity to get to a healthy company culture. There are no shortcuts, excuses or rationalizations here. Just do the work
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Platforms need to take down the harassment and the harassers that disproportionately target Black women. It's not a public square if a sector of the public gets targeted with hate and vitriol and can't participate
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To the men who made tech homogeneous, exclusive and bro-y calling out Hollywood for not taking action fast enough: We see you. Suggestion: It's time to call out your tech peers and your own glass house
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Wrong decision. Platforms don't operate in silos; technology has made our world interconnected. Cross-platform harassment is real. YouTube should look at the impact of the behavior across all platforms--and from followers as well. The mental anguish is real and can't be ignored
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The protests were extraordinarily nonviolent: 96% of events involved no property damage or police injuries, and in 98% of events, no injuries were reported
Most violence was directed against BLM protesters. In many instances, police reportedly began or escalated violence
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My older sister's kindergarten teacher told my parents to stop speaking Chinese at home or she would struggle, so my dad spoke only English to us. My mom spoke a mix, and my grandparents spoke only Chinese, so we still learned some Chinese, but the message was assimilate or fail
Julian Castro is practicing his Spanish, and tells
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why he didn't grow up speaking the language: "In my grandparents' time... Spanish was looked down upon. You were not allowed to speak it. People, I think, internalized this oppression..."
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What could go wrong??
NEW: Facebook is planning to build a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13, according to an internal company post
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Not a single teacher or class covered the Tulsa Massacre or any of the systemic racism during my 13 years of public education or 9 years of private education, including many U.S. history classes. It was as if they thought "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" was all we needed to know
On the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre, let's acknowledge that what happened in Greenwood was not a spontaneous eruption of hatred.
That's the narrative that America likes to portray but what happened on May 31, 1921, is an example of systemic racism.
A thread
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Who are you following on Twitter? I just scrolled through one consumer-facing CEO's following list and saw only 7% were women, only 1 Black person (
@BarackObama
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It's time for a woman in the White House and Warren in the White House
#Warren2020
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I blame tech founders who hyped free speech to get users on their platforms and convinced their mostly white male users to believe in it. It has never been about free speech, and this order is not about free speech. It's about who gets to talk and what they want to say
President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon signed his much-hyped executive order on campus free speech — which he deemed a "historic action to defend American students and American values" that have "been under siege" on campuses
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Facebook's unending failure loop: It fails to remove content calling for violence despite multiple user reports. The violence occurs. Facebook sends its special teams to manage, but it misses 19,000 shares of two fundraisers for the shooter. IG even autocompletes searches for it
Mark Zuckerberg is blaming an "operational mistake" and contractors for Facebook's failure to remove the Kenosha militia and "call to arms".
When I spoke to
@ekp
a few weeks ago, she pointed out that companies outsource the work they don't care about.
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Reminder: White people accounted for 90% of anti-Asian racism and violence in 2020. Only 5% of perpetrators were Black
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It may be too little too late, and it's a shame Twitter didn't listen earlier. When we look back, we'll see that all the platforms got rich over the last decade by fueling white supremacy, misogyny, and hate
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Many "diversity" investors focus only on gender; I haven't seen tackle the racial wealth gap at scale until
@ewarren
. She's right: You need managing partners who are underrepresented people of color, women, and NB people. And that won't happen without real change and funding
The racial wealth gap tilts the playing field against entrepreneurs of color, holding back our economy. The government helped create that wealth gap, and the government has an obligation to address it. I have a new plan to tackle it head on.
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VCs and angel investors: Why am I getting an email from a female founder that says, "I really appreciated how you made eye contact with all of us"? Please do better from basic decency on up
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@heathwblack
Thanks. It was an amazing team effort for sure. I can't believe how controversial it was at the time and that we were the first big platform to protect privacy over some fake commitment to free speech
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Deplatforming hate works. It worked on reddit in 2015, and now it's working on YouTube.
📜New preprint📜
Deplatforming the far-right: An analysis of
#YouTube
and BitChute
We
@JonasKaiser
show that deplatforming is effective in minimizing the reach of far-right channels like Alex Jones & cannot be compensated on alternative platforms🧵
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This is white supremacy. If you're a tech leader or publication promoting or amplifying it on your platform without calling it out directly, you're complicit
This is racist. If you’re chanting this, you’re a racist. If you’re a journalist asking white people if this is racist—you’re an idiot.
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The
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He was always Lex Luthor though
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How does Netflix's co-CEO and PR team still not understand the difference between intent and impact?
“As a leadership team, we do not believe that The Closer is intended to incite hatred or violence against anyone (per our Sensitive Content guidelines),” he continued.
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"We're laughing at him rather than taking seriously the pain he's causing and we're also spreading his propaganda." I can't stop thinking about what
@JoyAnnReid
said about making fun of 45. I'm guilty of it along with everyone else. Read her interview in
@AnandWrites
's newsletter
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This is why the 1925 Geneva Protocol categorized tear gas as a chemical warfare agent and banned its use in war
Here is a video of an arrest last night that has already appeared on Twitter filmed from another angle. The feds hold the arrestee down in the gas, for an interminable period of time.
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I filled out my census and it literally only took three minutes. Please take three minutes to fill yours out, too
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If you don't have Black employees building your products and your algorithms at the highest levels, you are perpetuating racial bias and suppressing Black voices.
New paper shows racial bias in automatic hate speech detection. So AI models trained to flag & remove offensive tweets risk suppressing black voices.
"African Americans are up to two times more likely to be labelled as offensive compared to others"
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Google litigation shows, among other problems, how code review can be used as a weapon of exclusion--saw this at reddit and have heard of it many other places. tl;dr Tech is not a meritocracy
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"They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds."
A Mexican proverb that I can't stop thinking of when it comes to
@staceyabrams
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If your company has a contract with ICE, this is also what your work is enabling. Looking at you, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, Palantir, Google. And GitHub, of course.
#notechforICE
URGENT: ICE is rushing to deport dozens of people before the deportation moratorium goes back into effect.
Here's how you can show solidarity, take action and help stop ALL deportations.
#HaltAllDeportations
#FreeThemAll
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90% of Gen Z Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement. According to Pew Research, most are progressive and see racial and ethnic diversity as a good thing. Good luck hiring if you ignore their values
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