“Snapchat is the prime example of what happens when you don’t have enough people of color building a product. Yesterday, in the Audacity of Whiteness: Snapchat released a blatantly racist yellowface filter, which excessively slants your eyes, rounds cheeks, and adds buckteeth for good measure.”
“We can all agree that Snapchat filters have four primary objectives: to make you look hotter, uglier, fun, or weird as shit. But you know what they shouldn’t do? Paint you as a racist caricature ripped straight out of World War II propaganda. Apparently, Snapchat hasn’t gotten that memo.”
Read: Snapchat Doesn’t Think Its ‘Yellowface’ Filter Is Racist
“We can all agree that Snapchat filters have four primary objectives: to make you look hotter, uglier, fun, or weird as shit. But you know what they shouldn’t do? Paint you as a racist caricature ripped straight out of World War II propaganda. Apparently, Snapchat hasn’t gotten that memo.”
Read: Snapchat Doesn’t Think Its ‘Yellowface’ Filter Is Racist
“The barriers faced by those from poorer backgrounds or minorities are getting higher – how can newspapers expect to stay relevant? At least the public agree on one thing in such divisive times: journalists, or the supposedly homogeneous “media”, are to blame for just about everything.”
Read: Journalism’s lack of diversity threatens its long-term future
“For DeRay Mckesson and his fellow Black Lives Matter activists, Twitter is a double-edged sword. The social media platform has made it easy for Mckesson to post messages, amass a dedicated digital following (half a million strong, and growing), and influence real-world events.”
“Mark Johnson wants to beat the United States Department of Agriculture at its own game: predicting yields of America’s crops. The USDA puts boots on the ground, deploying hundreds of workers to survey thousands of farms a month ahead of the October corn harvest, America’s biggest crop.”
Read: This startup uses machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields
“Mark Johnson wants to beat the United States Department of Agriculture at its own game: predicting yields of America’s crops. The USDA puts boots on the ground, deploying hundreds of workers to survey thousands of farms a month ahead of the October corn harvest, America’s biggest crop.”
Read: This startup uses machine learning and satellite imagery to predict crop yields
“Igor Schwarzmann is the German co-founder of Third Wave, a strategy consultancy based in Berlin that works with small-scale industrial manufacturers.”
Read: How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world
“Not long ago I watched a video in my Facebook timeline—I don’t remember what it was, only that it was something very sad. Whatever it was, I felt overwhelmed, and I put my head down on the bed beside my computer and did about sixty seconds of crying.”
Read: Why the Rumor That Facebook Is Listening to Your Conversations Won’t Die
“According to the WCAG, the contrast ratio between text and the text’s background should be at least 4.5 to 1.”