🏋🏽♂️My strength class at the Malden Senior Center strength class is bursting with amazing energy!
🤩These incredible members (ages 65-95!) are proving that age is just a number. They're having a blast, staying strong, and building a wonderful community together.
Accommodations are hardly ever the solution. For a disabled person to be granted accommodations, we have to jump through numerous hoops, and there is no guarantee they will be granted (it's hardly ever a doctor deciding-it's an institution). Allies build inclusion in so we don't need accommodations.
Mon plus beau cadeau de fête des mères ?
Ça serait que la cagnotte puisse s'approcher le plus près possible des 100% je dois payer un petit morceau vendredi. J'aimerai croire que cette tempête touche à sa fin ... (J'ai le nez dans une autre qui secoue mon couple ). https://app.lacagnottedesproches.fr/cagnotte/pour-que-ca-roule/
Merci infiniment 🙏
This editor’s letter was originally published by OHF Weekly on April 2, 2021. We reproduce it in its entirety to commemorate the third anniversary of Mr. Floyd’s death.
'The Diverse Investing Collective has launched a data dashboard that measures how much money is in the hands of gender-diverse and racially diverse portfolio management teams.... The initial version of the dashboard focuses on gender and a second version that will provide data on race and ethnicity in addition to gender will be released later in 2024.'
It takes more than simply hiring someone to address issues within an organization. It takes a top-down commitment to be part of that change. –Lecia Michelle
Just listened to my second podcast of the day 🎧, where the hosts are puzzled about who wants all this AI vision stuff they've seen this week. All they can come up with is blind people. Yes! Yes! Yes! We do! 🙌✨ #Blind#AI#TechForGood#Inclusion#Accessibility#ThisDayInAI#Verge
Una volta che esci dalla tua piccola fetta di mondo, ti accorgi che il mondo attorno a te è pieno di persone che non escono dalla loro piccola fetta di mondo.
Anzi, io che sono arrivato in #Germania armato del mio solo bagaglio ideologico anarchico e del modo di trattare accademico, mi sono trovato davanti ad una marea di persone imbevute di #religiosità, di #sessismo, di #razzismo e di #arrivismo.
My team are seeking an Alternative Formats Manager to pioneer the provision of accessible materials to our students. Based at Information Services -- but working across a number of University teams -- you will help to coordinate and establish our new #AlternativeFormats Service. Exciting stuff!
Feel free to message or reply with any informal job enquiries!
Citizen science projects tend to attract white, affluent, well-educated volunteers — here’s how we recruited a more diverse group to identify lead pipes in homes.
—@TheConversationUS
Last week I failed a Product Design / Verbal Reasoning test for a senior role. Today I wrote an email reasoning why I firmly believe that these tests exclude perfectly good professionals.
Here’s the email – feel free to use it should you need it.
💛 “Michael Che, the Enlightenment, and Whiteness”
By Rebecca Hyman
To ask “what was here before whiteness” is to open the more dangerous question: what had to be eliminated, for this way of organizing reality to appear natural.
Journée de réflexion sur l’inclusivité numérique ! Nous avons un stand à côté de WikiStrasbourg et interviendrons sur le biais de genre sur @wikipedia_fr cette après-midi 😊
Join our webinar this Saturday, 13 April at 12:00 UTC for a panel discussion on experiences 💬, opportunities 🚀, and bridging gaps in global representation 🌐.
After thinking through some responses to my posts and some thoughts of my own, I have concluded that this study probably has a low content and criteria validity and the study is unintentionally biased. Why theses conclusions I cover that under two overlapping headings:
open questions about the data used
Biases
1 Open Questons
How is untagged data dealt with? This is a significant question, since it affects biases and validity. Many things are untagged on Mastodon type instances. (More on that later) The study mention Mastodon and Misskey. However, a large bulk of Misskey data is not tagged. Tagging is much more common on Mastodon type instances. This means populations that user Misskey will be underrepresented. It also may affect representation of female acculturated individual who studies have been shown to be less aggressive, self promoting, or call attention to themselves.
How are PixelFed and Lenny and other platforms handled? Given that some of my PixelFed posts are boosted my guess is that some PixelFed data is included. Again tagging is less prevalent on PixelFed than on Mastodon based instances. This affects individuals who are visually inclined rather than text inclined. I am not familiar enough with Lenny and its ilk to know how that might affect things.
How are silent posts handled? I don’t have data but one use I make of silent posts is for things I do not want to draw attention to. These often relate to subjects which have drawn critical harassment or negative judgements in the past. This is an experience most marginalized individuals have experienced. Not everyone feels totally safe in the Fedi and may not wish their discussions to reach beyond their circle of trust.
💛 “The Race Massacres They Never Taught Us About in School”
We all say we want our children to have the very best education, but is it really in their best interests to not tell them what we have done wrong, to not show them America’s feet of clay?
—Glenn Rocess
🎧Rashid Gabdulhakov developed two fully open online courses that aim to help non-Western #scholars to navigate the Western system of #academic knowledge production.