Timnit Gebru (she/her).
Oh hey! I just had my first social media post to be taken down from any platform ever, on LinkedIn. Yay! My post about the flabbergasting amounts of racism in "AI" violated their "professional" community guideline. Indeed. Its quite professional to be as racist as possible, but not professional to call it out. Totally makes sense.
May 24, 2023 at 4:29pmWeb
Show threadjohncarneyauMay 24, 2023
@timnitGebru
Racist speech = Free Speech™️
Speech about racism = BAN HAMMER!
Show threadthomkennonMay 24, 2023
@timnitGebru
I've been trying to get a takedown from the fascist overlords at LI for 2 years. I bow to your art!
Show threadGreenSkyOverMe (Monika)May 25, 2023
@thomkennon @timnitGebru I guess my post where I call DeSantis a nazi is too nice or they didn’t get around to it yet (it’s only some hours old) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/monikaeggers_humanrights-activity-7067475881794883584-6SAo
Monika Eggers on LinkedIn: Here are the restrictions on transgender people that are moving through…

No company should hold events in Florida anymore. From July 1st transgender people are not allowed to use the bathroom according to their gender identity or…

Show threadCorbinMay 24, 2023
@timnitGebru My invites are disabled, but somebody should get you a Lobsters account. We can openly call out ethnonationalism and bias in AI, and the admins thank us for it. https://lobste.rs/s/jf3in4/ai_ethics_impossibility_theorems#c_9hp8br is one of my finer moments, as an example.
AI Ethics, Impossibility Theorems and Tradeoffs | Lobsters

Show threadmempkoMay 24, 2023

@corbin @timnitGebru I can offer an invite to lobsters. DM me here and I can send an invite via email.

However, lobsters has swung away from talking about the intersection of social issues and tech in the last couple of years, making it both boring and irrelevant to me at least. Thank you for keeping up the fight there!

Show threadmempkoMay 24, 2023
@corbin @timnitGebru IMO, the best large organization that is looking at social issues and tech is the ACM (not without problems). I highly recommend tech folks get a membership. Also a great resource in general.
Show threadCorbinMay 25, 2023
@mempko Sadly, I can't endorse the ACM's code of ethics; it protects copyright, but we ought to destroy copyright. Nonetheless, I agree; folks should definitely participate in their local ACM chapters.
Show threadmempkoMay 25, 2023
@corbin I totally agree on the copyright point. Copyright was designed to exploit creators.
Show threadSean KilleenMay 24, 2023
@timnitGebru ugh, that's ridiculous. How it's 2023 and we haven't learned that "decorum" supports oppressors is beyond me. 🙄 Good luck getting them to actually accept a spam report though. 🤷‍♂️
Show threadAdam CookMay 24, 2023

@sjkilleen @timnitGebru It is particularly hypocritical on #LinkedIn's part since decorum left LinkedIn long ago near as I can tell.

I **routinely** see racist and discriminatory comments on there - and, even though I blocked many now-former colleagues making those comments, LinkedIn still pushes that trash to me.

Probably high time that I just dumped LinkedIn, frankly.

Show threadMortSinyxMay 24, 2023
With that in mind, @timnitGebru, maybe consider not contributing to LockedIn’s network effect by stop posting there?
Show threadIcepick87May 24, 2023
@cnx and suffer what happened through Mastodon too? I think not!
Show threadMortSinyxMay 24, 2023
I’m not on Mastodon, @Icepick87, care to explain?
Show threadIcepick87Jul 6, 2023
@cnx you're literally using the Mastodon platform.
Show threadBynkiiMay 24, 2023
@timnitGebru yeah, that’s about white for LinkedIn.
Show threaddarren is Not Going BackMay 24, 2023
@timnitGebru For contrast: During the pandemic, i flagged a post from a guy saying that unvaccinated people would be the only 'pure blood' people remaining, and that they should all seek to do business together. Silly me thought that sounded pretty eugenicish and flagged it, but they were content to leave it up.
Show threadRoMay 24, 2023
@timnitGebru LOL, which means you are exactly right.
Show threadSteve HerseyMay 24, 2023

@timnitGebru
Might have been the "ass" reference, I suppose. The post seems pretty on-point overall.

LinkedIn is, IMO, almost totally useless these days. Mostly seems to function as a conduit for recruiters to flood my inbox with job solicitations I don't want (and that they might plausibly be expected to KNOW I wouldn't want.)

Show threadmempkoMay 24, 2023
@timnitGebru Don't you know, you are supposed to post only positive, business friendly messages on linkedin! /s (Let's ignore that it's owned by Microsoft that also owns OpenAI).
Show threadBlake C. StaceyMay 24, 2023
@timnitGebru typo: Tegraf -> Tegmark?
Show threadTimnit Gebru (she/her).May 24, 2023
@bstacey Yes 😂
Show threadBen RosengartMay 24, 2023
@timnitGebru I knew that platform creeped me out.
Show threadKluthulhu' XOR 1=1--May 24, 2023
@timnitGebru professionalism = not calling out the AI grifters spending ad money on LinkedIn 😅
Show threadSteven ZekowskiMay 24, 2023
@timnitGebru
Stating the obvious here. Apologies. Microsoft owns LinkedIn. Microsoft is heavily invested in OpenAI. 🤔
Show threadHTTP 1.1/418 TeapotMay 24, 2023
@timnitGebru @http_error_418 Well, I’m *quite* sure if we just stop talking about racism then it’ll go away. I mean, I’ve been *repeatedly* reassured of this by folks who don’t want people to talk about racism, so certainly they’re neutral on the topic.
Show threadLilly HunterMay 24, 2023
@timnitGebru I suspect it got taken down for sweary language, something you almost never see on LinkedIn, as it is a platform closely tied to people's work lives.
I doubt it got taken down due to content, as the content is good.
Show threadVirtue signal 💉💉💉🇺🇸 🇺🇦May 25, 2023

@timnitGebru

Sister brands...

👉 Microsoft
👉 Github

Show threadRRBMay 25, 2023
@timnitGebru Isn't the end goal to create stupid, automated, sycophants? They could easily replace 80% of the work force with that and no one would notice.
Show threadEhproque has movedMay 25, 2023
@timnitGebru yeah, I once reported someone calling for all Socialists to be hanged, and was told this was not violating any policy. I think we all know what the real policy is.
Show threadJanneMay 25, 2023

@timnitGebru Wonderful example of tone policing.

Nazi ass little shits.

Show threadWndlBMay 25, 2023
@timnitGebru Consider who owns it.
Show threadELOPe 🥶May 29, 2023
@timnitGebru LinkedIn often takes down posts with words like “ass” and “shit” in them, even if they are appropriately utilized. They think it’s “unprofessional”.