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Politics
Quickies: Racism in Medical Algorithms, Russia Calls Trump a Lying Liar, and Kamala Harris Takes a Stand
Bot Bias: Study Finds a Medical Algorithm Favors White Patients Over Sicker Black Ones, the Root: “An algorithm used by major hospitals and healthcare providers misjudged how sick black patients were compared with their white counterparts, allowing healthier white patients to get additional medical supports more often.” h/t Muscadine Russia: Trump’s Baghdadi Victory Lap Is Nothing But ‘Propaganda’, the Daily…
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Activism
Follow-Up: Boycotting Russia
[TW: Homophobia, violence] I recently wrote a post explaining why I am boycotting the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. In it, I expressed my outrage with the new Russian law passed back in June that effectively bans queer people from public life and has ushered in a new era of public violence towards queer people in Russia. A few people…
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Activism
Why I am Boycotting the 2014 Winter Olympics
[TW: Homophobia, violence, rape] I’m not a particularly big fan of most sports. It’s not so much that I dislike them as that I’m indifferent to them. I live in San Antonio, Texas, and Spurs fever is pretty big around here. People are always perplexed when I have no idea that there was a Spurs game, let alone that they…
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Skepticism
ICYMI: August 12 – August 18 on the Skepchick Network
Hang on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen. We’re expecting gale force awesome to come sweeping through your computer and into your eyeballs. You have been warned. Teen Skepchick Can We Reclaim the Movement? Nenfea argues that it’s important to fight for the heart of the atheist movement. Don’t Drop the Science! Eddy encourages high school students to forget the…
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