Joan Baez Covering Peter Gabriel's "Biko" November 20, 1999.

Joan Baez covering Peter Gabriel's "Biko" November 20, 1999.

Mamoudou Gassama, a 22-year old Black man from Mali, without hesitation scaled four stories of a Paris building to save a toddler facing certain death. Mamoudou is an undocumented immigrant. He knew getting caught would mean deportation. 

But instead, France has a new hero. President Macron thanked him, granted him French citizenship plus a job at the French fire brigade.

Shout out to Mamoudou Gassama!

Rest in love, Sir. 93 years young. James Earl Jones is now an ancestor y'all.

nature.com

Chatbot AI makes racist judgements on the basis of dialect

Some large language models harbour hidden biases that cannot be removed using standard methods.

Researchers found that some artificial intelligence (AI) systems are more likely to recommend the death penalty to a fictional defendant presenting a statement written in African American English (AAE) — a dialect spoken by millions of people in the United States that is associated with the descendants of enslaved African Americans — compared with one written in Standardized American English (SAE). The chatbots were also more likely to match AAE speakers with less-prestigious jobs.

unsurprising but still worth talking about

The greatest gymnast of all time, Simone Biles, took an apparent jab at former Pres. trump early Friday, posting on X, "I love my black job," in response to a post about her winning the gold medal in the women's gymnastics individual all-around hours earlier.

The comments came after trump used the term "Black jobs" during an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists Conference.