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[Link] A Biracial YouTube Star Disparaged Black Women’s Hair. Now She’s Getting Canceled
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Earlier this month, Atlanta-based influencer Briana Monique posted a vlog on YouTube where she discussed a few Black-owned hair products she was using to revive her hair after a few weeks of protective styling.
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[Link] The 14-Year-Old Who Founded Girls Who Hack Is Inspiring the Next Generation of Hackers
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Bianca Lewis, or as she is known in the hacker world: BiaSciLab, is part of the next generation of hackers. At 14 years old, she has already made a name for herself in hacker conference circles when a few years ago, she was among a group of kids that hacked into an election reporting system.
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[Link] Lego to remove gender bias from its toys after findings of child survey
Read: 12/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Lego has announced it will work to remove gender stereotypes from its toys after a global survey the company commissioned found attitudes to play and future careers remain unequal and restrictive.
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[Link] Actors ‘told they’re too disabled’ for disabled roles in UK television
Read: 24/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Actors have been told they are “too disabled” to play disabled roles in popular television series, with parts instead going to able-bodied people, according to a leading screenwriter who has called for television companies to adopt quotas for people with disabilities.
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[Link] Activision Blizzard’s QA Department Seems Like A Hellhole
Read: 15/8/2021 kotaku.com
Long hours. Low pay. Tremendous instability. Working in quality assurance (QA) for a video game studio is notoriously difficult and painstaking enough as it is without factors like these complicating matters.
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[Link] African Game Dev Prototype Fund hopes to boost and support continent’s indie scene
Read: 7/8/2021 www.destructoid.com
Annapurna, Raw Fury, Toge, and others declare financial support A party of independent developers has banded together with Games Industry Africa to announce the formation of the African Game Dev Prototype Fund: an initiative to help fund and support video game developers operating out of Africa.
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[Link] Discrimination against Indigenous Australians has risen dramatically, survey finds
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Major discrimination against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – like being unfairly denied a job or unfairly discouraged from continuing education – remains at elevated levels and is far higher than for the rest of the population, according to new data.
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[Link] Basecamp's new etiquette regarding societal politics at work
Read: 28/4/2021 world.hey.com
Jason announced a raft of changes we've made to Basecamp earlier today. By far the most controversial is a new etiquette around societal politics at work, and the stances we'll take as a company.
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[Link] 🚨 What really happened at Basecamp
Read: 28/4/2021 www.platformer.news
The controversy that embroiled enterprise software maker Basecamp this week began more than a decade ago, with a simple list of customers. Around 2009, Basecamp customer service representatives began keeping a list of names that they found funny.
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