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“Democratizing and meritocracy and those things are not just not a step forward. They are the right idea in the most ignorant way. They are coming from the perspective of trying to ‘do right’ but not applying any actual complex thinking towards what ‘doing right’ is.” Ben Halpern is the founder of DEV […]

Power Race: A power construct of collected or merged differences that lives socially. I want to begin this episode with a warning: Reading this book, are any other, does not make you an Antiracist expert compared with those who have the lived experiences of racism’s impact. Homework 1. Page 38: find 3 examples […]

There’ve been many raising questions recently about the real value of bootcamps, their impact on students and the community at large, and this new crop of businesses using Income Sharing Agreements (ISAs) to target the vulnerable. My hope is that this is only the beginning of a much overdue conversation. Transcription 00:30 Kim […]

Dueling Consciousness Assimilationist: One who is expressing the racist idea that a racial group is culturally or behaviorally inferior and is supporting cultural or behavioral enrichment programs to develop that racial group. Segregationist: One who is expressing the racist idea that a permanently inferior racial group can never be developed and is supporting […]

“No matter what we build as human beings, we’re building it from human perspective.” Damien Patrick Williams is a PhD researcher at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society. His research areas include technological ethics, algorithmic bias, philosophy of knowledge, philosophy of technology, philosophy of mind, nonhuman intelligence, machine consciousness, […]

Welcome to the first episode of the #causeascene Podcast Book Club. The very first book we will be tackling is “How To Be An Antiracist” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. I will cover a chapter a week, so I encourage you to read along. Also, please send your questions/comments/concerns to [email protected] and I’ll […]

“Twitter is an absolutely fascinating example of the political choice to say free speech is an absolute…The problem with that is, of course, they’re white men. Their default experience is radically different from the majority around them who have a very different experience.” C J Silverio is probably best aimed at back-end problems, […]

“There’s a term in computer science that I’ve become fond of, the idea of a naive solution. It’s a solution that appears to be correct at first glance. But if you dig in a little deeper you realize, ya know what – this is not really the way to go.” Kojo Idrissa *was* […]

“That’s what a lot of people miss, unless you’re specifically going up to people and saying ‘I am not white, I am indigenous’ – no one is going to recognize that.” All I can think is DarkSkyLady is a creative zealot writer talking and combatting white supremacy and all its sub branches.  Additional […]

“Oh I can’t even make jokes anymore or I can’t be myself anymore.” – like yeah, if that’s how you are then you should not be yourself. You can be that way…and I don’t care if I’m not around, I don’t care. But yeah that’s what a code of conduct means: you have […]