Thread of some posts about diversity & inclusion I've written over the years. I still stand behind these.

(I'm resharing bc a few folks are suggesting Jeremy's CoC experience ➡️ partially our fault for promoting diversity, we should change our values, etc. Nope!)

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Math & CS have been my focus since high school/the late 90s, yet the sexism & toxicity of the tech industry drove me to quit. I’m not alone. 40% of women working in tech leave. (2015)

https://t.co/NGNSxnnAdt 2/
Superficial, showy efforts at diversity-washing are more harmful than doing nothing at all. Research studies confirm this (2015)

https://t.co/1t6T4LKqiA 3/
The primary reason women leave the tech industry is because they are treated unfairly, underpaid, less likely to be fast-tracked, and not given a fair chance to advance. (2016)

https://t.co/NkVc5Yseo9 4/
Diversity Crisis in AI, 2016 (written the week we publicly launched fast ai, this has been a core value from the start): https://t.co/hejGQTHGwU

Diversity Crisis in AI, 2017 edition: https://t.co/Owwt8C14yh 5/
Tech Interviews are Terrible. One key problem is that people primarily like to hire people like themselves. Some research, case studies, & guidelines. (2017)

https://t.co/WThizQ3uQd
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Discrimination in tech against people with disabilities and chronic illnesses (2019)

https://t.co/71pnZRHysE 7/
The tech industry’s glorification (and often requirement) of long hours means that many people with chronic illnesses & disabilities are unable to work at many tech companies. (2019)
https://t.co/jp3FzMEb5S 8/

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Patriotism is an interesting concept in that it’s excepted to mean something positive to all of us and certainly seen as a morally marketable trait that can fit into any definition you want for it.+


Tolstoy, found it both stupid and immoral. It is stupid because every patriot holds his own country to be the best, which obviously negates all other countries.+

It is immoral because it enjoins us to promote our country’s interests at the expense of all other countries, employing any means, including war. It is thus at odds with the most basic rule of morality, which tells us not to do to others what we would not want them to do to us+

My sincere belief is that patriotism of a personal nature, which does not impede on personal and physical liberties of any other, is not only welcome but perhaps somewhat needed.

But isn’t adherence to a more humane code of life much better than nationalistic patriotism?+

Göring said, “people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”+

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