Guardian Tech
This algorithm can tell whether you're gay or straight, from a photograph
6 min · · An artificial intelligence guessed the sexuality of people on a dating site with up to 91% accuracy, raising tricky ethical questions · Shared by 177, including jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Florian Hanke 🍎, Manos Hatzimalonas, Simon Wüthrich, Jakub Ferenc, Alexandra Wong, { Monah } 💡, Flavio Rump, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Power, Chris Messina, Rick Powell, Markus Maurer, Kim Dik
Guardian Tech
'I was shocked it was so easy': meet the professor who says facial recognition can tell if you're gay
20+ min · · Psychologist Michal Kosinski says artificial intelligence can detect your sexuality and politics just by looking at your face. What if he’s right? · Shared by 101, including Jakub Ferenc, Frederic Filloux, Rick Powell, ☕📖🍵, Marco Unternaehrer, Kaspar Manz, @grzewap@mastodon.social, luis antónio santos, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Adrienne Fichter, Alex Barrera, Kat, Kim Dik
Pew Research Global
Views of Homosexuality Around the World
10 min · · Despite major changes in LGBT rights around the world, acceptance of homosexuality remains sharply divided by country, region and economic development. · Shared by 93, including Juan Cole, Rick Powell, Jose Luis Calvo
VICE
Google’s Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad
9 min · · This is the latest example of how bias creeps into artificial intelligence. · Shared by 70, including Gerald Soparkar, Rick Powell, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦 @ianlurie@mastodon.social, Konrad Lischka, Azeem Azhar, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gabriele, Thomas Power, Yvette Dubel
The New York Times
Many Genes Influence Same-Sex Sexuality, Not a Single ‘Gay Gene’
9 min · · The largest study of same-sex sexual behavior finds the genetics are complicated, and social and environmental factors are also key. · Shared by 57, including Loubna Rais, Vaughan Bell, George J Huba PhD, Thomas Power, Rick Powell, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., HealthyWomen.org, The Indian Express, Riley Black 🦕🏳️⚧️, Martin Varsavsky
Engadget
Qualcomm's new mobile chipsets pack more features for the non-5G crowd
2 min · · In other words, they're meant for most of the world. · Shared by 38, including Rick Powell, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
HuffPost
Why Didn't Gay Rights Cure Gay Loneliness?
20+ min · · The surprising new science of the closet. · Shared by 38, including @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Rick Powell, Nils Hitze
The New York Times
What Genetics Is Teaching Us About Sexuality
4 min · · Yes, your sex life is influenced by your DNA. But it’s more complicated than that. · Shared by 37, including Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Rick Powell, ASA Sociology, Steve Silberman
The Verge
Google’s LGBTQ employees are furious about YouTube’s policy disasters
4 min · · And they’re afraid to speak out about it · Shared by 36, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Thomas Power, Yvette Dubel, Rick Powell
The Guardian
Ban Marvel's gay kiss? You might as well ban the Sistine Chapel
4 min · · The mayor of Rio de Janeiro’s attempts to censor an Avengers comic isn’t just bigoted. It ignores the fact that Christian artists pioneered same-sex snogging · Shared by 28, including Rick Powell, Liliane Ferrari ™
nature
NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT+ claims
5 min · · Some astronomers argue the flagship observatory — successor to the Hubble Space Telescope — will memorialize discrimination. Others are waiting for more evidence. · Shared by 24, including Rick Powell, Roger Highfield
Gizmodo
YouTube: No, We Won't Remove These Videos of Racist, Anti-Gay Harassment Because It's Just 'Debating'
5 min · · YouTube has chosen not to take action against right-wing video personality Steven Crowder after Vox host Carlos Maza posted clips of Crowder repeatedly harassing him with derogatory, anti-gay, and… · Shared by 23, including Charles Baldwin, Rick Powell, Mark Kaigwa, Mathew Ingram, Trey Tweets Into the Void
BBC News (World)
The diary discovery that's rewriting gay history
5 min · · A Yorkshire farmer's journal from 1810 reveals surprisingly modern views on being gay. · Shared by 21, including Rick Powell
The Guardian
Homophobic and transphobic hate crimes surge in England and Wales
3 min · · Offences double since 2014 against gay and lesbian people and treble against trans people, Guardian analysis reveals · Shared by 18, including Charles Baldwin, Rick Powell
The Washington Post
Facebook blocked many gay-themed ads as part of its new advertising policy, angering LGBT groups
8 min · · The Washington Post found many LGBT ads that the company erroneously blocked as political. · Shared by 18, including Mathew Ingram, Rick Powell
HuffPost
Barack Obama And The Secret History Of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal
15+ min · · If the former president had his way, the military’s ban on openly gay service members may not have been repealed in 2010. · Shared by 15, including Rick Powell, HuffPost UK Politics