TikiRobot! » bigotry http://www.tikirobot.net/wp Mai Tais and Blinky Lights, Ahoy! Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:14:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Funeral for La Contessa http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/02/04/funeral-for-la-contessa/ http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/02/04/funeral-for-la-contessa/#comments Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:02:55 +0000 rajbot http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/02/04/funeral-for-la-contessa/

La Contessa was destroyed by arson in December. Here are some videos of her wake I shot on a tiny digicam.

She was a great ship, and shall be missed!

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I’m glad that San Francisco Values don’t include hating poor people so much that we demolish their homes..

]]> http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/01/20/police-slash-tents-of-homeless-people-in-st-petersburg/feed/ 0 Tricia Wang: Search Algorithms as Revealing of Social Stereotypes http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2006/11/28/tricia-wang-search-algorithms-as-revealing-of-social-stereotypes/ http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2006/11/28/tricia-wang-search-algorithms-as-revealing-of-social-stereotypes/#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:46:53 +0000 rajbot http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2006/11/28/tricia-wang-search-algorithms-as-revealing-of-social-stereotypes/

There is not other “RACE” or groups that are as sexualized as the generic “Asian woman.” Latina comes the closest. You can see for “Arab women” you can plenty of images of the stereotypes veiled woman. Then other during the presentation prompted me to type in “Korean, Japanese, black, African American, and etc.” = and as you can see “Asian women” win the most sexualized google image search. When you perform the search based on more specific cultures – like “Dominican” – it’s not as sexualized as “Latina.” Same for when you search “Japanese” – it’s not as sexualized as “Asian.” Sometimes sweeping stereotypes are easier for mass groupings of people – differences can be dropped as common denominators can be promoted.

Link

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via mefi

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Addendum: the original post has been updated to clairfy that the audio clip isn’t real. I was surprised how many people couldn’t tell. The story now has 3000+ diggs, with comments from diggers like “All you people who say it sounds like a fake accent have obviously never spoken to Dell customer support. I’ve talked to guys that sound just like that.” Meh.. Let’s go to brunch!

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