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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's also a puff piece, though it does contain the common and increasingly-comical self-flagellation at the end about how all these models are probably racist. Like all corporate DEI initiatives, everyone involved is only interested in admitting the problems in such a way as to avoid ever challenging the power structures that replicate them.

Ask me how much time I'm spending on (and how much they're paying me to sit through) DEI training at work. I mean, Im not against it, but if the CEO isn't gonna share the internal power structure, wtf is the point?

In functioning countries, healthcare is publicly owned, publicly operated, publicly accountable, and guaranteed to all residents. In other words, it's democratized. Compare that to living in a country where millions of people do not have access to medical care and where Google is actively working on a proprietary chatbot alternative to doctors,

(While calling it democratization of healthcare)

which gets a puff piece in the most prestigious scientific journal, and ponder what working in or writing about tech does to a motherfucker.