Churches confess and repent for sins against Native and Indigenous people

Via: Hallux  •  History & Sociology  •  16 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  2 years ago

AI was asked for images of Black African docs treating white kids. How'd it go? : Goats and Soda : NPR

Via: Hallux  •  Other  •  7 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  2 years ago

“Researchers were curious if artificial intelligence could fulfill the order. Or would built-in biases short-circuit the request? Let's see what an...”

The lifesaving, Nobel Prize-winning discovery that almost didn’t happen

Via: Hallux  •  Health, Science & Technology  •  4 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  2 years ago

Attacks by students made medieval Oxford a murder hotspot, researchers find

Via: Hallux  •  History & Sociology  •  2 Comments  •  1 Like  •  2 years ago

“It's estimated that the homicide rate in late medieval Oxford was about 60-75 per 100,000 people - 50 times higher than current rates in...”

Who is Wab Kinew, Canada’s first First Nations premier of Manitoba?

Via: Hallux  •  News & Politics  •  4 Comments  •  1 Like  •  2 years ago

“In a historical first, a member of Canada’s First Nations community has become the leader of Manitoba province.”

Alabama finally has a new congressional map after a lengthy legal fight

Via: Hallux  •  News & Politics  •  17 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  2 years ago

Men took over a job fair intended for women and nonbinary tech workers

Via: Hallux  •  Other  •  7 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  2 years ago

“As one poster put it, "the Kens had taken over Barbieland."”

Manitoba PCs shocked their ‘imply everyone in the province is a secret bigot’ strategy didn’t work out

Via: Hallux  •  Satire  •  1 Comments  •  1 Like  •  2 years ago

The Republican Civil War Over The Ukraine War

Via: Hallux  •  Op/Ed  •  7 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  2 years ago

“Putin represents the kind of leadership and ideology to which the Trump wing of the GOP aspires. Trump very obviously admires him, as does the hard...”

GOP Fantasy Collides With Reality

Via: Hallux  •  Op/Ed  •  104 Comments  •  9 Likes  •  2 years ago

“The requisite for Republican leadership is serving delusion—that Trump won in 2020, that the Republicans did not lose in 2022. Fail at that and...”