Hi, not sure if this is a good place to bring awareness to this: https://www.shutdownstem.com/who. I think in light of what is happening around us, it will be quite tone deaf of people who considers the future of coding not to consider the people making it happen. My DMs are open to people who want to share/discuss antiracism even within code. just today, I worked with a coworker to make sure we stop using black/white list and use block/allow list instead. seems rather trivial and we know the intentions wasn’t a racist one, but this is a purposeful change in our codebase to remove subtle/nonsubtle racism.

That's a helpful link, thank you. If anyone here is planning to participate in this, and feels comfortable sharing that fact, I think an indication of solidarity would be a positive gesture. Feel free to post a comment here, or throw a ✒️ on the parent post. (I hope that's appropriate.) If anyone would like to see changes to this community so that we can do a better job amplifying the influence of the underrepresented (which is one of the community's core principles), I invite you to start a #CEXED56UR thread or DM me to tell me what I can do to help. Finally, if anyone has favourite Black people or people of color that they'd like to hear me interview on the podcast, I'm always looking. (My potential-guest list is already about 50 people long — I cannot get to everyone, but the more options I have, the better job I can do covering all bases in a cohesive way where each episode builds on the ones before.)

other examples: • "master/slave" • training sets for ML or facial rec that have bias to white/western • assumption of L-R text • I8N as an afterthought • maps with a projection that shrinks the African continent • whitehat/blackhat • assumption of family name/personal name order just off the top of my head

The wikipedia article on Algorithmic Bias is really, really good.

I pulled up an organization wide GitHub search. We have a few references to some of these phrases that we need to update. I'm sure there are other technical docs we need to update as well. I'm going to spend some time on the 10th thinking through what actions I can take to promote anti-racism in spaces that I contribute to. Thanks for the suggestion and link!

Along the lines of @Duncan Cragg’s mention of names, there is the famous https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/, and many more categories of commonly-assumed falsehoods which were spawned from it (though not all cultural): https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

I'd like to see @Maeliza on the podcast