@eyeslasho I think you misunderstand the article’s point. Assuming your data is correct, your contention seems to be that, when asked to show a black person, AI should more often show someone on food stamps than when asked to show a white person. The article does not disagree about that. /1 @eyeslasho Rather, the article’s objection is that, when asked to show someone on food stamps, the article shows a brown person rather than a white person. In short, the article is seeking to address stereotypes that are, in fact, inaccurate. I didn’t see anything specific about crime, /2

@CathyYoung63 That’s fair, esp. if (as in your case) folks who call themselves libs blocked low-income housing. But plenty of what people derisively call NIMBY-ism is skepticism about what I’d call blind YIMBY-ism. IMHO YIMBY-ism often represents blind faith in—and giveaways to—developers. /1 @CathyYoung63 Eg, I’m deeply skeptical #Minneapolis2040 will just lead to more condos for Laptop Class millennials, not low-income housing, unless property values drop substantially—which would destroy the nest eggs of suburb-raised libs who helped revitalized cities by back in in the 90s. /2

It is beautifully ironic that @DavidOBowles’s hit job on @jeaninecummins’s #AmericanDirt—in which he criticizes her book for cultural appropriation and poor Spanish dialogue—uses “Latinx” to refer to people from Latin America. nytimes.com/2020/01/27/opi… While Bowles is no doubt… /1 …a well-regarded Mexican-American author and translator w/the expertise to criticize Cummins’s work on the merits, it’s hard to take his complaints of “white saviorism” + bad Spanish seriously when he offers no evidence of it and himself uses a term almost no Hispanics use…/2

What galls me most about @EliseStefanik & @DevinNunes’s little stunt yesterday is the Right’s attempt to pass it off as a #shepersisted moment. foxnews.com/media/elise-st… That’s an insult to heroic women who persisted, from @ewarren to #RosaParks. Let’s compare the two incidents: /1 @EliseStefanik @DevinNunes @ewarren During the Jeff Sessions confirmation hearings, after reading a letter from #Coretta Scott King, Warren was gaveled out of order on the grounds that she’d impugned a fellow Senator. This took Warren by surprise b/c the letter had previously been entered into the Senate record. /2

Was the famous #AlfredEisenstaedt photo of the sailor kissing a woman who appeared to be a nurse, in #TimesSquare, on #VJDay, a #sexualassault? Contrary to accepted wisdom of the #MeToo crowd (whose goals I support, but whose excesses I deplore), probably not. Here's why: /1 First, it’s not clear who is in the photo. Is it #GretaZimmer or #EdithShain? #GeorgeMendonsa or #CarlMuscarello? Or one of the many other men who claimed to be kisser or women who claimed to be the kissee? It matters, because, absent a victim, there is no sexual assault. /2

@sannewman Great thread & solid article. I agree Ford does not fit the typical profile of a false accuser. And I lean toward believing Ford.

But two nitpicks, one minor & one major:

1) A false accuser trying to bring down a #SCOTUS nominee is unprecedented (#AnitaHill did not lie). /1 @sannewman And #BrettKavanaugh is not just any #SupremeCourt nominee; he’s a conservative replacing a sometime-moderate, who could change the face of the Court—and overrule #RoevWade. (Not to mention #Democrats rightly believe the #GOP stole the #NeilGorsuch seat from #MerrickGarland.) /2