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A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices (www.newyorker.com)
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An old article, but I just stumbled upon it and found it enlightening. The trope of criticizing women for the way they talk has deeper implications than I thought.

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[-] luciole@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

Good analogy! More recently, the same kind of thing is happening with facial recognition software.

[-] Lowbird@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

This also still happens sometimes with shit like motion detectors for automatic/touchless sinks and paper dispensers, when they're designed and tested by by white people who don't make sure they'll detect black hands.

[-] liv@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

And blood oxygen monitors are less reliable too.

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