Boston parade shooting suspect on the run, police ask for help

If the police happens to kill this suspect, will it become another phony cause celebre like professional petty criminal and drug addict George Floyd? You never know! 

What a stress for the police officers! How much will they have to risk their lives to prevent a new phony, cause celebre?

Caution: satire!

"One of the men charged with the broad daylight shooting during a Boston Caribbean Festival parade in 2023 is on the run.

The Boston Police Department on Tuesday issued a wanted alert for Gerald Vick, 31, of Dorchester. He is one of the four men indicted last winter of shooting at rivals without regard to bystanders during the annual J’Ouvert parade on Aug. 26, 2023, around the first block of Talbot Avenue in Dorchester. ..."

Boston parade shooting suspect on the run, police ask for help

The next George Floyd?

Timnit Gebru: Google's 'dehumanizing' memo paints me as an angry Black woman

The more you read about her and now this interview with her, Google was right to fire this leftist black supremacy cause celebre! She is obsessed, unhinged, and unreasonable! She needs an appointment with a mental health professional!

I am not sure why I blogged about this woman here already twice before (see here, here). However, she seems to have become a typical leftists undeserved cause celebre.

A quick reminder: The CEO of Google is a man from India. I also suspect that a lot of women from India work in IT at Google. Is this not diversity and inclusion? Skin color is not black, but brown! :-)

From her interview:

"... It’s those leaders who have already failed to create any sort of livable, breathable environment for people like me. So how do you expect them to then hold other people accountable when they themselves have created hostile environments for people like me? ...
then there can be a backlash from white supremacist groups about giving Black people a handout and all that stuff. ...
On top of all of that, they [Google] want to censor my work without any sort of discussion. ...
I don’t want to be in these institutions that are hostile to Black women. I think I tried everything I could to try to make a little livable nugget of these institutions for people like the ethical AI team. I want to make sure that whatever I do next that I’m in a safe environment that doesn’t gaslight me ..."

Timnit Gebru: Google's 'dehumanizing' memo paints me as an angry Black woman | VentureBeat

The Far-Reaching Impact of Dr. Timnit Gebru. Really!

The fawning over this cause celebrity researcher is building up! I blogged here about researchers trying to extort Google about her.

I hate to disappoint, but the total lifetime citation score of this so much celebrated researcher is only 2059 (Google Scholar (as of 12/8/2020)); or 1649 with 24 total publications (Microsoft Academic (as of 12/8/2020)). This is not very impressive!

"Few researchers make breakthrough contributions to even a single field. Fewer still can claim to have made breakthrough contributions to multiple fields. Dr. Timnit Gebru is one of those few. ...
Her impact goes far beyond her own research. She is one of the founders of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), one of the most prestigious and well-known conferences related to machine learning ethics. As co-founder of Black In AI, she helped increase the number of Black attendees at NeurIPS from just 6 in 2016 to 500 in 2017, a nearly 100-fold increase in just one year. ..."

The Far-Reaching Impact of Dr. Timnit Gebru Dr. Timnit Gebru's contributions range from circuit design at Apple to computer vision research at Stanford to her global leadership in AI Ethics

Researchers are starting to refuse to review Google AI papers

Science and politics are often mixed together and not to the benefit of former. Ideology often trumps science!

I do not know the exact details or circumstances about the employment or departure of Timnit Gebru by/from Google, but I have a hunch that this cause celebre researcher has been a zealous race/gender/diversity ideologue and militant! Her research paper seem to indicate that. In addition, she self proclaims/promotes permanent victimhood/victim mentality of herself: "people like me who are constantly dehumanized". 

Google AI/machine learning research is often top quality and cutting edge. Many of its research papers are excellent or seminal. Just take this famous paper as an example: Attention Is All You Need (published in 2017, citation count 13,592 as of 12/8/2020)
To extort Google in this manner is a shameful disservice to science!

Some well known researchers already have come out to engage in this refusal, e.g. Anima Anandkapur (California Institute of Technology and Nvidia)

Researchers are starting to refuse to review Google AI papers | VentureBeat Computer scientists in AI are beginning to refuse to review Google AI research until Google changes its stance on former AI ethics co-lead Timnit Gebru.

Angela Davis looks back on her life, her legacy

How can a U.S. elite university like Harvard celebrate a long time communist and felon like Angela Davis! Was she not anti Vietnam war, because the U.S. and its allies were fighting militarist, aggressive communism in that country! Angela Davis is a cause celebre for all the wrong reasons!

"In 1970, Davis purchased firearms for people who used them in an armed takeover of a courtroom in Marin County, California, in which four people were killed. She was prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder. After over a year in jail, she was acquitted of the charges in 1972". I don't have the time to further investigate that surprising acquittal (see e.g. here)!

Angela Davis looks back on her life, her legacy – Harvard Gazette: In a wide-ranging conversation Tuesday afternoon, activist Angela Davis reflected on a range of topics, from how music and art can help transform and create community to the challenges of talking about race in America to the need for prison reform.