#diversity in tech

[dgspeaks]

Pioneering Paths: Lupita Nyong’o, Tope Awotona, and the Impact of Black Excellence in Tech

Welcome to DG Speaks, your portal to an in-depth exploration of the dynamic world of technology, where the transformative impact of Black excellence in tech stands as a guiding force. In this extensive journey, we delve into the pioneering paths of innovation, diversity, and excellence, illuminated by the remarkable figures of Lupita Nyong’o and Tope Awotona. Navigating Pioneering Paths in…

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#Black Innovators #Diversity in Tech #Lupita Nyong’o #Representation in Tech #Tech Excellence #Tope Awotona

[nieshas-corner]

I'm super proud of this podcast that I co-host with my friend Kellie called Behind the Tech Scenes.

We talk about tech in a super casual and natural way for us.

What I really like about this podcast is that you don't have to work in tech or even have an interest to work in the field to enjoy it.

We keep it real about our experiences and our views on what's going on in these tech streets.

We're two Black women, a demographic often overlooked in tech and I hope this podcast can help people feel seen and provide some laughs and insights.

Check us out!

#black women in tech #black in tech #tech podcast #diversity in tech #tech entertainment #black podcasts

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#Technology Recruitment Company #tech recruitment agency #diversity in tech #recruitment coordinator #jobs in the tech industry #Razorpoint

[jonasgoonface]

Earthday is fight day

If your "green" project relies on the same practices of land theft, resource extraction, and labor abuse that brought us to this point - then the grifters supporting it are just another variety of climate change deniers. Squat the trees while we still got trees. Defend what you love.

#earthday #tesla #green tech #green washing #industry #ecomodernism #climate change #diversity of tactics #fire #eco cars

[kopykunoichi]

If CX-2 is Tech...

There are two possible scenarios I can think of:

Part of the CX conditioning process actually wiped most of his memory, which explains why he still needed to track down the coordinates to Pabu through Cid and Phee. This makes sense because they obviously don't want him remembering times, places, and events that he shared with his family because the emotions tied to those memories would make him non-compliant. We've seen conditioning processes like this in The Mandalorian with Dr. Pershing. We've also seen people break free of that conditioning.

He's pretending to be brainwashed, and he's playing the long game. He used Cid and Phee to track down Omega as part of his cover. This is probably the least likely scenario, but I do find it extremely interesting that he put the explosives on the Marauder while Wrecker was outside the ship and could easily spot/hear them; he shot the pilot of the lartie instead of Hunter; and he put Omega on his personal ship instead of on that cruiser that is equipped with detention cells and hundreds of armed guards. I also can't figure out another explanation for why he sounds more like a typical clone every time he has a conversation with a superior, but his accent noticeably changes when he's with underlings. Nor can I see how they can resolve his story in four episodes (along with all the other plot points) if he is completely brainwashed.

Either way, his choices and behavior during this entire last episode seemed very suspicious to me.

#the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers #tbb spoilers #tbb tech #tbb cx-2 #tbb omega #the bad batch speculation #I'm 🤡 here...but I just want CX-2 to rip off his mask at the beginning of the next episode turn to Omega and pull her into a bear hug #and then he tells her how they're going to hijack a transport carrying the zillo beast and turn it loose on tantiss as a diversion

[actionsurges]

i love watching procedurals from different eras because it is fascinating how their relationship to 'average' people and their portrayal of police and the leniency they grant to police evolves and changes. it's fascinating.

#i have been watching elsbeth (2024 show) and it's been making me go nuts #the writing is So funny Sometimes in how it portrays characters #like the antagonist of an episode in a business meeting acknowledging that new york was originally native land and then continuing on with #her villainous schemes. #also she is disabled and walks with a cane. #and its fascinating because its like. a #diversity win and b. what sort of commentary is it making on people who work in tech or are disabled or acknowledge american colonialism . #the show does have a tendency to make fun of younger characters #HOWEvER AGAIN #SOMETIMES IT MAKES ME LAUGH SO HARD.

[jynjackets]

I finally watched The Creator and holy shit why didn’t any of you tell me it was going to be that beautiful

#this movie was literally made for me #i’m a ml engineer #I research tech comms & censorship in asia and la #vietnamese language vietnamese people!!!! Thaii!! nepalese!! desi!!! #*cries* god i love being asian #Asians banding together to kill colonizing Americans ilysm #gareth edwards forever the movie maker of all time #we are going to gif the shit out of this #once I find out how to #the creator #this is the dream science fiction was made for #science fiction is not for taking from other cultures and putting white westerners in its place even when that's how it's been. #it's for telling a grave and distant future that is not so distant to deliberately expand your view of how the world works #INCLUDING outside the west and the united states #reclaiming the genre to the very culture that inspired it #And by not only showing the overpillaged overcolonized overpoached focus on southeast asia but also all of asia as a united front. #Imperialism is supported by xenophobia and racism so how else do you tell that story without casting nonwhite races & diverse nationalities #the movie said you just fucking can't! #and its apparently not even that hard with the film coming in at $80M to make (blue beetle cost $104M for comparison that's insane) #and to say 'American' so clearly and so many times oh is so *chefs kiss* #there's flaws but idgaf because they are insignificant compared to the story and themes that are so clearly and respectfully carried out #It's completely okay if you didn't know anything about southeast asia or asia in general #but when watching the movie don't you just understand that imperialism war violence are inherent evils #NOT because (a) other cultures are nice to look at and you can borrow it like through clothes dances food songs religion #(b) that we are pretty advanced and such intelligence shouldn't go to waste and perhaps be put to work #or (c) any other rationalized benefit for imperialists to put a price on a people or life #but by the simple fact that people are human and are hurting #and that the elusive concept of a soul and where we go when we die exist for everyone along with fears emotions and meaning surrounding it #it's about how we must protect these differences in meaning /because/ we are all the same

[mitchipedia]

“For executives who have been looking for an excuse to stop pretending that they care about diversity issues, then, Musk seems to be providing huge inspiration. Musk seems to be proving similarly inspirational to CEOs who believe their employees have grown too lazy, too coddled, too opinionated about their workplaces.”

#DEI #Elon Musk #diversity #Twitter #business #links #tech

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

As Gov. Greg Abbott tells state agencies that using diversity, equity and inclusion criteria in the hiring process is “illegal,” lawmakers in the legislature are pushing against the practice in Texas universities. State representative Carl Tepper, R-Lubbock, filed a bill to prohibit higher education institutions from funding or supporting diversity, equity and inclusion offices. HB 1006 also prohibits any efforts to formulate diversity “beyond what is necessary to uphold the equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment.” “We call it division, inequity and indoctrination. The DEI office name is a misnomer,” Tepper said. “We feel like it’s purposely being misused, to push a very woke very liberal agenda. You can have any belief you want, you can have any care about race relations or sexual relations or what have you. But we think that on the state dollar, and the state budget, that these universities, these state departments, departments of the state of Texas, should be neutral.”

Tepper’s alma mater Texas Tech University, now in his district, said its Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion works “to foster, affirm, celebrate, engage and strengthen inclusive communities.” They provide mentors to first-generation students, cultural centers for minority students and outlets for the campus to engage with the intercultural community.

Tepper said he hopes his bill will get rid of those outlets. He called Texas Tech’s Black Cultural Center “self-segregation.”

“I would do away with that. We have some wonderful facilities for everyone,” he said. “We want our students to learn together and play together, interact together, not as a segregated society. We want to see distinguished Black alumni, the portraits of distinguished Black alumni all over campus, not just in the Black Cultural Center.”

Some attorneys worry the recent restrictions of DEI policies are misguided. Jay Ellwanger, an attorney who specializes in employment and civil rights litigation at Ellwanger Law, said DEI policies are already prohibited from discrimination by federal law and may attract businesses wanting to create a diverse and competitive workforce. “The thing that struck me most in Governor Abbott’s memorandum to the state agencies was that I think he needed to go back to law school,” Ellwanger said. “Because the issues that were raised by this memorandum are impacted by areas of federal law that have been in place for almost 60 years.” The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recommends DEI initiatives as a best practice.

“EEOC makes it make extremely clear that you can’t have quotas, that you can’t purposely put a minority ahead of a nonminority in a DEI context if they’re not qualified,” Ellwanger said. “All the federal law says is that you can allow for other parts of someone’s makeup to go into that hiring equation, which again, allows for a company or state agency to hire more competitively, to get more viewpoints in the workplace, and just overall become more competitive.”

Rep. Tepper’s concerns are already shifting policy, however. Texas Tech University announced Wednesday they are eliminating DEI criteria. That decision comes after a Wall Street Journal report criticized the weight that some departments give to subjective diversity statements required in candidates’ applications.

#us politics #news #kxan austin #texas #Gov. Greg Abbott #diversity #equity #inclusion #Carl Tepper #HB 1006 #Division of Diversity Equity and Inclusion #Texas Tech’s Black Cultural Center #texas tech university #Jay Ellwanger #Equal Employment Opportunity Commission #the wall street journal #education

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[presumenothing]

achievement: successfully said no to a thing today

#albeit over a call with a colleague i consider Decent People #and more of 'no unless you really can't find anyone else and in which case here are the conditions' #but hey! diversity win your local tech wizard is a cat #ramble tag

[sparksinthenight]

LADbible✔️: Chinese woman shocked as iPhone X can be unlocked by her co-corker using Face ID … (link)

Retweet: One of the reasons for more ethnic diversity in tech. Devices can’t be biased, but if the creators don’t account for their own biases it shows up in things like Asian women being indistinguishable to iPhones and black hands not triggering sensors in soap machines.

#racism #race #tech #technology #diversity #bias

[aroaessidhe]

2022 reads // twitter thread  

The Trouble With Robots

middle grade about a girl who keeps getting kicked out of her classes & the overcontrolling team leader who have to work together to get their team to the upcoming robotics competition

learning to work together and becoming friends

bi autistic & questioning aroace MCs

#The Trouble With Robots #aroaessidhe 2022 reads #asexual books #aromantic books #this is good! short fun diverse #but ok when the principal was like there’s not enough students in robotics we have to shut this class down :[ like. in the middle of term? #i dunno about american schools but you would wait til the end of term right??? huh? #also 12(?) people in the class isn’t that small surely. in my digital tech in high school there were two of us in year 13 lmao and the previ #previous years it had been 10 or less……

[dragonridingsorceress]

I watched Blade Runner 2049 for the first time tonight, and this scene stood out.

"Being asked personal questions" by someone you've just met, especially someone you've just met who is trying to decide if you're human enough to have rights, is not "invigorating", in my experience. It doesn't make me "feel desired".

But it seems to be the sort of thing (cishet) men think, and maybe what they think women would/should think. And Luv is a replicant, made by (and for) a man. This made a lot of the Blade Runner world building click for me: the "female" replicants' behaviour patterns have been designed by men based on their perceptions/desires of women, not on real women.

The final still really clinches it for me: Luv asks K a personal question, to make him feel desired, even though he's a replicant - because that is the role of "female" replicants, and the behaviour she's been programmed with: to make men feel desired.

#blade runner 2049 #headcanon #the year is 2049 and technology is still being designed primarily by men #remember folks: #diversity makes everything better #especially tech #diversity makes tech better #(and diversity quotas have been shown to work) #not gifs #(because I don't know how to turn a YouTube movie into gifs)

[stupid-sloot-headcanons]

On ep 7 of Lycoris Recoil and I was NOT expecting the Shinji/Yoshi kabedon in the elevator, but quite appreciative. Thank you Lyco-Reco, very cool 👍

#nonono hes not dating the Commander. trust us #diversity win! the sensei character angsting over leading his charge to her doom is a gay Black cafe owner! #but fr i kinda dig whatever hes got going on with Yoshi #i also like Chisato and the glasses girl being like #sloot watches #also i dig what theyre doing w/ Chisato. she refuses to kill but her talent she was chosen for the Alan Institute to save her.m. #is to kill. so given shes only alive thanks to their tech if she cant do her mission then theyll prob try to shut it off and dispose of her #only for the power of bullets/lesbians/female bonds to save the day! #lycoris recoil #lycoris recoil spoilers

[firein-thesky]

white cis theater directors will be like….i’m going to do something groundbreaking with this classic play…..i’m going to make all these characters tech billionaire businessmen…..

#BOOOOOOO #and they always just do the show straight like boring costumes #boring lights #boring blocking #their cast is also the least diverse #once more i watch cis white guys recite shakespeare to each other #personal rant moment 🙈🙈 #maybe i’m just absurdist pretentious hipster trash #where’s the THEATRICS #the SPECTACLE #i don’t wanna see john jacob jingle hymer schmidt play hamlet where he acts like a weird tech boy the whole time #i don’t wanna see the greeks and these bitches are genuinely in togas 😭😭 #WHERES YOUR IMAGINATION